David mann songwriter biography of mahatma

David Mann (David Freedman, October 3, 1916, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — March 1, 2002, New York^[1]) was an Americansongwriter of popularsongs. His best known songs are "There!

I've Said It Again" (1945), popularized first by Vaughn Monroe and later by Bobby Vinton, and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (1950), recorded most notably by Frank Sinatra, but covered by many other artists over the decades.

Career

Mann was able to play the piano by ear, at the age of 4, and by age 13, he was playing around Philadelphia.

He attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where, when Mann was graduating, Leonard Bernstein, was entering, and the two men became friends.

David mann songwriter biography of mahatma

In 1939, he changed his name from Freedman to Mann for the WCAU radio station's Mann-Irwin Show.^[2]

In late 1939, Mann moved to New York and became a Decca Recordssession musician. He was in Charley Spivak's orchestra until 1941.

He also worked with the Jimmy Dorsey band, singer Gordon Macr