Al Dubin is best known for his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.
17 Facts About Al Dubin
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Al Dubin came from a Russian Jewish family that emigrated to the United States from Switzerland when he was two years old.
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Between ages of thirteen and sixteen, Al Dubin played hookey from school in order to travel into New York City to see Broadway musical shows.
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Al Dubin was accepted and enrolled at Perkiomen Seminary in September 1909, but was expelled in 1911, after writing their Alma Mater.
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Al Dubin continued to write lyrics and tried selling them to area publishing firms.
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In 1917, Al Dubin was drafted at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York, and served as a private in the 305th Field Artillery of the 77th Division, known as New York's own.
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On his first weekend pass, Al Dubin went to see a show at the Majestic Theater in New York City.
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The year they married, Al Dubin was accepted in ASCAP in 1921.
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The last show Al Dubin was contracted to work on was Laffing Room Only, with composer Burton Lane.
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Al Dubin provided only a title for this production, "Feudin' and a Fightin'", for which he received 25 percent credit.
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Al Dubin spent the remainder of the last few years of his life at the Empire Hotel, alone and in ill-health.
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Al Dubin was admitted to the Roosevelt Hospital for barbiturate poisoning and pneumonia, and later died on February 11,1945.
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Al Dubin was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Al Dubin sold his first set of lyrics for two songs "Prairie Rose" and "Sunray", in 1909 to the Whitmark Music Publishing Firm.
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In 1925, Al Dubin met the composer Harry Warren, who was to become his future collaborator at Warner Bros.
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In 1929, Al Dubin wrote "Tiptoe through the Tulips" with composer Joe Burke, for the film Gold Diggers of Broadway.
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Al Dubin was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.