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((short description|American Tin Pan Alley songwriter (1907–2007)))
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'''Hy Zaret''' (born '''Hyman Harry Zaritsky'''; August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American [[Tin Pan Alley]]<ref name="har"/> lyricist and composer who wrote the lyrics of the 1955 hit "[[Unchained Melody]],"  one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.<ref>((Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3246887.stm | title=Brothers in good company with hits | first=Stephen | last=Dowling | date=November 6, 2003 | publisher=[[BBC News]] | access-date=July 3, 2007))</ref>

==Personal life==
Zaret was born on August 21, 1907, in New York City to Max Zaritsky and Dora Shiffman, who had emigrated from Russia in the 1890s. He attended [[West Virginia University]] and [[Brooklyn Law School]], where he received an [[LLB]]. He shortened his name legally from Zaritsky to Zaret in 1934.<ref name=obituary /> Zaret served in the [[United States Army|Army]]'s [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]] division during [[World War II]].<ref name="argosy">[https://www.argosymusiccorp.com/HyZaret/HyZaret.html Biography of Hy Zaret] www.argosymusiccorp.com. Retrieved August 12, 2021.</ref>

Zaret had two sons, and was married to the former Shirley Goidel. He died at his home in [[Westport, Connecticut]], on July 2, 2007, at the age of 99.<ref name=obituary>((Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/arts/03zaret.html | title=Hy Zaret, 99, Tin Pan Alley Lyricist, Is Dead | work=[[New York Times]] | date=July 3, 2007 | first=Douglas | last=Martin | access-date=July 3, 2007))</ref>

==Career==
He scored his first major success in 1937, when he teamed up with [[Saul Chaplin]] and [[Sammy Cahn]] to co-write the pop standard "Dedicated to You."  The early 1940s brought some collaborations with [[Alex C. Kramer]] and [[Joan Whitney (songwriter)|Joan Whitney]], including 1941's "It All Comes Back to Me Now" and the [[social consciousness|socially conscious]], [[WWII]]-themed "[[My Sister and I (song)|My Sister and I]]." In 1941 [[Vaughn Monroe]] had a top 5 hit with the song “[[There I Go]],”<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.vaughnmonroesociety.org/achievements/achievements_hits.htm|title=Achievements Hits))</ref> which Zaret co-wrote with [[Irving Weiser]].<ref name = obituary/>

Zaret wrote the lyrics for an English translation of the [[French Resistance]] song "[[La Complainte du Partisan]]" ("The Song of the French Partisan"). The song became popular after it was recorded by [[Leonard Cohen]] and others as "The Partisan".  In 1944 he and [[Lou Singer]] wrote the popular hit [[novelty song]] "[[One Meatball]]", based on a song popular among [[Harvard]] undergraduates.<ref name="har">[http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/05/song-hard-times "Song for Hard Times"], ''[[Harvard Magazine]]'', May–June 2009</ref>

==="Unchained Melody"===
Zaret's biggest success, though, was "[[Unchained Melody]]," a song he co-wrote with film composer [[Alex North]] for the 1955 prison film ''[[Unchained (film)|Unchained]]'' (hence the title), which was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]]. No fewer than three versions of the song—by [[Les Baxter]], [[Al Hibbler]], and [[Roy Hamilton]]—hit the U.S. Top Ten that year, with Hibbler's version ranking as the best-known for the next ten years. The song was also recorded successfully by [[Eddie Fisher]], whose version bowled over critics, [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]] and [[Liberace]], and covered by countless others. And [[The Righteous Brothers]]' 1965 version was perhaps the biggest selling version, reaching the U.S. pop Top Five. That recording was revived in 1990 thanks to its inclusion in the film, ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]'', and nearly reached the U.S. Top Ten all over again, whilst it reached No.1 in the U.K on this release.  [[Elvis Presley]], [[Sam Cooke]], [[Cliff Richard]], [[Roy Orbison]] and [[Donny Osmond]] also recorded versions of the song. This song is unique in that it has made No.1 on the U.K. singles charts in four different guises by four different artists over a period of nearly fifty years: Jimmy Young (1955), The Righteous Brothers (1990), [[Robson & Jerome]] (1995) and [[Gareth Gates]] (2002). The latter three versions have all recorded certified sales in excess of one million copies in the U.K. alone.

===Children's music===
Zaret turned his attention to educational children's music in the late 1950s, collaborating with Lou Singer on a six-album series called ''Ballads for the Age of Science''; different volumes covered [[Space Songs|space]], energy and motion, experiments, weather, and nature. The records were quite successful, and the songs "[[Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)|Why Does the Sun Shine?]]" (aka "The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas") and "A Shooting Star Is Not a Star" were even covered by alternative rock band [[They Might Be Giants]] in 1993 and 2000, respectively. (source: Steve Huey, Allmusic).

==See also==
* [[Great American Songbook Foundation]] - where Hy Zaret's papers are housed. A collection guide can be found [http://www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/getattachment/Great-American-Songbook-Inititative/Archive-Gallery/Archive-Collections/FA-Mss-009-Hy-Zaret-Papers.pdf;;.aspx;.html here]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.ascap.com/playback/2003/july/actionc.html ASCAP Foundation Living Video Archive interview Hy Zaret] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726011308/http://www.ascap.com/playback/2003/july/actionc.html |date=July 26, 2011 ))
*((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210121941/http://www.mplcommunications.com/zaret_bio.asp |date=February 10, 2006 |title=Zaret Bio at MPL Communications ))
*((cite web|url=http://www.mplcommunications.com/behind_song_unchained.asp |title=Story of Unchained Melody at MPL Communications |access-date=April 11, 2007 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226112230/http://www.mplcommunications.com/behind_song_unchained.asp |archive-date=February 26, 2006 ))
*[http://www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/Great-American-Songbook-Inititative Great American Songbook Foundation] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527013810/http://www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/Great-American-Songbook-Inititative |date=May 27, 2017 ))
*[http://www.argosymusiccorp.com Argosy Music Corp.]
**[http://www.argosymusiccorp.com/LittleSongs/LittleSongs.html History of Little Songs]
*[http://www.unchainedmelodypublishing.com/ Publishing administrator for "Unchained Melody"]
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