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Philip J. Lang

Philip J. Lang is credited on 767 releases across 105 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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767

Pressings credited

105

Albums

8

Decades active

29

In collections

Biography

Philip J. Lang (17 April 1911, in New York – 22 February 1986, in Branford, Connecticut) was an American musical arranger, orchestrator and composer of band music, as well as a musical educator. He is credited for writing the orchestral arrangements (orchestrations) for over 50 Broadway theatre shows, including many landmark productions, such as Li'l Abner (1956), Hello, Dolly! (1964), Mame (1966), George M (1968), Annie (1977) and 42nd Street (1980). Together with Robert Russell Bennett, he orchestrated the record-breaking productions of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956) and Camelot (1960). Russell Bennett, the dean of musical orchestrators, remarked that the original arrangements Lang had prepared for Annie Get Your Gun (1946), which utilized a modern technique of orchestral scoring, were beautifully done.

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Credited work

767 releases · 105 albums · active 1951–2024

  • Other credits · 607
  • Performance · 210

Studios: Webster Hall · RCA Studio A · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Columbia Recording Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Rex Harrison
  • Original Cast
  • David Merrick (2)
  • Jule Styne
  • Cole Porter
  • Angela Lansbury
  • Mogens Wieth

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