Sid Cooper(1918-2011)
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Composer, saxophonist, songwriter ("Night Is Gone"), and arranger,
educated at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, New York. He was a
saxophonist and arranger for the orchestras of Henry Jerome (for which
he wrote the theme "Night Is Gone"), Tommy Dorsey (1944-1949), Jimmy
Dorsey, Ziggy Elman, Skitch Henderson, and Sy Oliver, and also for
other radio and television orchestras. He was a member of the NBC staff
orchestra from 1954 to 1959. Joining ASCAP in 1958, his other
popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Piccolo Polka",
"Saxology", "Clarinet Cascades", "Cooper Union", and "Eiffel
Tower".