Johnny Green

American pop composer, bandleader, and pianist Johnny Green wrote the majority of his hit songs during the 1930s, including his most famous tune, "Body and Soul." Born in 1908 in N.Y.C., Green went on to attend the New York Military Academy, and then Harvard, where he composed "Coquette" with lyricist Gus Kahn, and worked occasionally as an arranger, including arranging for Guy Lombardo. After ...more