Performance · Other credits

Michael Edwards

real name Michael E. Slowitzky

Michael Edwards is credited on 1,190 releases across 311 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

Start your shelf →Open in app

1,190

Credits

311

Albums

8

Decades active

129

In collections

Biography

source

Showing the Discogs bio

Michael Slowitzky, American composer and musician (29 September 1893 – 26 September 1962), adopted the professional name of Michael Edwards.
Best known for composing the 1937 hit "Once in a While". He was also a classical violinist, organist, arranger and music editor for Mills Music, Inc.
Edwards' most famous composition, "Once in a While", became a number one hit for Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, and later for Patti Page (1957) and The Chimes (1961). The song is now considered a jazz standard. None of Edwards' other songs achieved the popularity of "Once in a While", and he has been called "a perfect example of a one-hit composer".

Bio from Discogs

Credited work

1,190 releases · 311 albums · active 1950–2024

  • Performance · 1,178
  • Other credits · 22

Studios: Birdland · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Allegro Sound Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.