Authors - United States

Benard Ighner was an American jazz singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Bernie Baum was a songwriter who worked extensively with Elvis Presley. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Robert Thiele was an American record producer who worked on numerous classic jazz albums and record labels. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Burton Lane was an American composer primarily known for his theatre and film scores. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Daniel E. Kelley was a musician and entertainer, who after moving to Kansas in 1872, wrote the music for "Home on the Range", which became the state song. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

George Alexander Aberle, known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

George Edward Bruns was an American composer of music for film and television. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

George David Weiss was an American songwriter and arranger. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

George Rodway Poulton was an English-born American musician and composer. Best rememberd today for Aura Lea (1861). Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Wilhelm Grosz sometimes credited as Hugh Williams, was an Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor, who from 1934, worked in the UK, before moving to the USA in 1938. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Irving Louis Burgie, sometimes known professionally as Lord Burgess, was an American musician and songwriter, regarded as one of the greatest composers of Caribbean music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

James Lord Pierpont was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and Confederate States soldier. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

James Francis McHugh was an American composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

John Alfred Mandel was an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Jose Maria Barroso was Mexican/American cellist, guitarist and music teacher. Source: composers-classical-music.com.

Jule Styne (born Julius Kerwin Stein) was an English-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Mabel Wayne (born Mabel Wimpfheimer) was an American musician, composer, and screenwriter. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Manning Sherwin was an American composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas". Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Samuel Cohen, known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Stephen Collins Foster known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Turner Layton born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.