1. Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.
10 Facts About Ralph Rainger
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Ralph Rainger had studied piano from a young age and attended the Institute of Musical Art in New York.
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Ralph Rainger prepared piano rolls between 1922 and 1928 for Ampico, Standard, and DeLuxe.
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Ralph Rainger later played for 1928's "Angela" and "Cross my Heart".
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Ralph Rainger's first hit "Moanin' Low", with lyrics by Howard Dietz, was written for Clifton Webb's co-star Libby Holman in the 1929 revue The Little Show.
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Webb, tracing the song's origin, noted that Ralph Rainger was Webb's accompanist in vaudeville when Webb was invited to appear in the new show, and that Webb had asked Ralph Rainger for a contribution.
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Ralph Rainger teamed up with lyricist Leo Robin to produce a string of successful film songs, including "I'll Take An Option On You", from the Broadway hit show Tattle Tales.
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Ralph Rainger paid one year's tuition fees to the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in advance, so that Schoenberg could pay for the transportation of his belongings to Los Angeles from Paris in 1933.
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Ralph Rainger died in a plane crash near Palm Springs, California, in 1942.
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Ralph Rainger was a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 28, a DC-3 airliner that was involved in a mid-air collision with a US Army Air Corps bomber.