Tom Glazer wrote the lyrics to the songs "Melody of Love", and "Skokian".
13 Facts About Tom Glazer
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Thomas Zachariah Tom Glazer was born in Philadelphia on September 2,1914, to Russian Jewish emigre parents from Minsk.
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Tom Glazer subsequently attended City College of New York for three years.
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Tom Glazer moved to Washington, DC, and began work at the Library of Congress.
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Tom Glazer began performing as an amateur and was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to perform at the White House for soldiers working there as guards.
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Tom Glazer made a successful professional debut at The Town Hall, New York City, in January 1943 during a blizzard, and in 1945 had a radio show Tom Glazer's Ballad Box.
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Tom Glazer's songs were recorded by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra.
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Tom Glazer was part of the strong folk music scene in New York in the 1940s, and with Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White helped prepare for the commercially successful folk revival of the 1960s.
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Tom Glazer was married to Miriam Reed Eisenberg with whom he had two sons.
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Tom Glazer recorded a number of children's records in the late 1940s and early 1950s with Young People's Records, Inc In the 1960s he hosted a weekly children's show on WQXR radio in New York.
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Tom Glazer wrote the musical score for the Elia Kazan film A Face in the Crowd.
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Tom Glazer wrote and sang the title song in the 1966 movie Namu, the Killer Whale starring Robert Lansing and Lee Meriwether.
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Tom Glazer died at his home in Rochester, New York on February 21,2003, at the age of 88.