Albert Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor.
19 Facts About Victor Young
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Victor Young was born into a very musical Jewish family, his father being a tenor with Joseph Sheehan's touring opera company.
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Victor Young studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory.
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Victor Young returned to Chicago in 1920 to join the orchestra at Central Park Casino.
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Victor Young then went to Los Angeles to join his Polish fiancee, finding employment first as a fiddler in impresario Sid Grauman's Million Dollar Theatre Orchestra then going on to be appointed concert-master for Paramount-Publix Theatres.
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In 1930, Chicago bandleader and radio-star Isham Jones commissioned Victor Young to write a ballad instrumental of Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust", which had been played, up until then, as an up-tempo number.
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Victor Young slowed it down and played the melody as a gorgeous romantic violin solo which inspired Mitchell Parish to write lyrics for what then became a much-performed love song.
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Victor Young was signed to Brunswick in 1931 where his studio groups recorded scores of popular dance music, waltzes and semi-classics through 1934.
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In late 1934, Victor Young signed with Decca and continued recording in New York until mid-1936, when he relocated to Los Angeles.
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Victor Young was musical director for many of Bing Crosby's recordings for the American branch of Decca Records.
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Victor Young often collaborated with Ken Darby and the Singers for radio programs starring the popular Met Opera baritone John Charles Thomsen.
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Victor Young composed the music for several Decca spoken word albums.
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Victor Young received 22 Academy Award nominations for his work in film, twice being nominated four times in a single year, but he did not win during his lifetime.
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Victor Young received his only Oscar posthumously for his score of Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Victor Young contributed two tone poems, "White" and "Black", to the 1956 album Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color.
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Victor Young won a Primetime Emmy Award for his scoring of the TV special Light's Diamond Jubilee, which aired on all four American TV networks on October 24,1954.
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Victor Young died on November 10,1956, in Palm Springs, California, after a cerebral haemorrhage at age 57.
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Victor Young is interred in the Beth Olam Mausoleum in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
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Victor Young's family donated his artifacts and memorabilia to Brandeis University, where they are housed today.