Kay Swift
Biography
Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; the song "Fine and Dandy" has become a jazz standard. "Can't We Be Friends?" (1929) was her biggest hit song. Swift also arranged some of the music of George Gershwin posthumously, such as the prelude "Sleepless Night" (1946).
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ella And Louis
1956
In The Wee Small Hours
1955
People
1964
Twentysomething
2003
Sonny Stitt / Bud Powell / J.J. Johnson
1956
Lush Life
1984
Smokin' With The Chet Baker Quintet
1966
Tell Her You Love Her
1963
Live—The Complete Concert
1978
Rhapsody In Blue (The 1925 Piano Roll)
1976
The Wham Of Sam
1961
Young Man With A Horn
1950
The Washington Concerts
2001
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong On Verve
1997
'Round Midnight
1986
Blues In The Night
1979
Diz And Roy
1977
Django Reinhardt
1976
The Tatum Solo Masterpieces
1974
Retrospective
1971
The Swing Piano
1968
Music Inspired By The Rip Roarin' Electrifying Sound Of "Bonnie And Clyde" (The Original Motion Picture Score)
1968
Django Reinhardt Et Son Quintette
1966
Kate Smith At Carnegie Hall
1963
Credited work
1,586 releases · 321 albums · active 1950–2025
- Performance · 1,614
- Other credits · 49
Studios: Capitol Studios · The Complex · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Chipping Norton Recording Studios