35 Facts About Loring Buzzell

Loring Bruce Buzzell was an American music publisher and record label executive.

Loring Buzzell was married to popular singer Lu Ann Simms, whom he managed towards the end of his life.

Loring Buzzell died prematurely at the age of 32 in October 1959 from a heart attack.

Loring Bruce Buzzell was born on October 3,1927, in Long Beach, New York to Samuel Jesse Buzzell and Alma Virginia Wanner.

Loring Buzzell was of German, Irish, French and Jewish ancestry.

Loring Buzzell's father Samuel was an important figure in the New York music industry and entertainment community.

Loring Buzzell graduated from New York University School of Law and was principally known in his profession as a theatrical, music patent and copyright counselor-at-law, and served as a business incorporation agent.

Loring Buzzell's father was on the board of directors, as President of Long Beach Hospital, from the summer of 1940 until he resigned from the post on November 20,1941, to focus exclusively on the music business.

Loring Buzzell was married a second time in 1970 to George J Tamaro, giving birth to a son named Loring Paul Tamaro, named in memory of her brother, on March 26,1971.

Loring Buzzell first attended Central School, and later Long Beach Junior Senior High School in Long Beach, New York, before switching to the Cheshire Academy, a college-preparatory school in Cheshire, Connecticut.

Loring Buzzell was an officer of the Alpha Tau Omega, Gamma Alpha Chapter fraternity, a member of the International Relations Club, and on the staff of the school's White Mule magazine.

Loring Buzzell graduated with the Class of 1948 earning a bachelor's degree in history.

In late October 1950, Loring Buzzell began working for music publisher Howard Spencer Richmond.

Loring Buzzell scooped a major signing when he inked his brother-in-law Harold Hecht's film production company, Hecht-Lancaster Productions, to a soundtrack publishing deal with Cromwell Music in December 1954.

In October 1955, after exactly five years of working for Richmond, Loring Buzzell left the music publishing firms to manage his wife Simms.

Loring Buzzell had slowly begun to manage his wife's business affairs in late 1954, helping with the promotion of her Columbia Records releases.

Simms was still signed to her five-year recording contract with Columbia Records when Loring Buzzell became her manager.

The press announced in June 1956 that Hecht, Lancaster and Loring Buzzell had formed a new music publishing company named Leigh Music, Inc.

Loring Buzzell was named after Buzzell's daughter, Cynthia Leigh Buzzell, a trend well-used in the Hecht and Lancaster company structure.

Loring Buzzell next took care of the music from Sweet Smell of Success, a film co-produced by Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions and Curtleigh Productions.

The final film score which Loring Buzzell worked on prior to his death was Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions' last movie, The Unforgiven.

Some non film-related compositions that Loring Buzzell published and had recorded through Calyork Music include fifteen songs composed by jazz pianist Anthony Tamburello, most of which were recorded and released on the Everest Records LP Music Tailored To Your Taste.

Loring Buzzell first met Lu Ann Simms in late 1952, after being introduced by a mutual friend in the hallway of a production studio.

Loring Buzzell was quickly signed to a seven-year contract with Columbia Broadcasting System for television, radio and their record label division Columbia Records.

Simms mentioned wanting to see Broadway's new play Kismet at the Ziegfeld Theatre and Loring Buzzell showed up a few days later with a pair of tickets.

Loring Buzzell went on maternity leave from the Godfrey show in March 1955, planning to return by the end of the year.

Loring Buzzell's birth was covered by the media from coast to coast.

Loring Buzzell landed a job as the host of a television show titled Summer Holiday for CBS-TV; a summer replacement for Jane Froman's USA Canteen and Jo Stafford's The Jo Stafford Show.

Griffin co-wrote the song "Hot-Cha-Cha" with Sydney Shaw, and had it published via Dartmouth Music, where Loring Buzzell was General Manager.

Loring Buzzell was already engaged to Lu Ann Simms at the time he met Griffin, with a wedding date set for July 24,1954.

Loring Buzzell had been complaining of chest pains but assumed that they were due to a stomach ulcer, for which he had been hospitalized two years prior.

Loring Buzzell awoke just before dawn on the morning of October 20,1959, in severe pain, whereupon Simms called his physician.

Loring Buzzell died in his Manhattan apartment from a myocardial infarction at 5 AM that day, only two weeks after his 32nd birthday.

Simms continued looking after Loring Buzzell's music publishing companies after his death.

Loring Buzzell was survived by his mother, Alma Virginia Wanner, who died at 78 years on November 27,1974, and his father, Samuel Jesse Loring Buzzell, who died at 87 years on July 9,1979.