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James Gannon

 
Artist: Kim Gannon
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Max Steiner, J. Fred Coots, Mabel Wayne, Walter Kent, Jule Styne, Josef Myrow
  • Born: November 18, 1900, Brooklyn, NY
  • Died: April 29, 1974, Lake Worth, FL
  • Active: '40s, '50s
  • Genres: Vocal Music
  • Instrument: Composer, Lyricist, Songwriter

Biography

American pop lyricist Kim Gannon wrote many hits throughout the 1940s and '50s, including "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Born in Brooklyn in 1900, James Kimble Gannon studied at Albany Law School and passed the New York bar five years before he began songwriting in 1939. That same year, Gannon got his first song published, entitled "For Tonight." A few years later, he was writing for films as well, starting with the title song for Always in My Heart (1942) and including numbers for Powers Girl (1943), If Winter Comes (1947), and more. He started out the 1950s with a score for Broadway's 1951 production Seventeen, co-written with composer Walter Kent. Through his career, Gannon worked with many other composers, including Max Steiner, J. Fred Coots, and Mabel Wayne. Besides his 1943 classic "I'll Be Home for Christmas," other well-known songs by Gannon include "I Understand" (1940), "Moonlight Cocktail" (1942), "A Dreamer's Holiday" (1949), "Under Paris Skies" (1953), and his final hit, 1960's "I Want to Be Wanted." ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide
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James Gannon is a freelance writer and producer of documentaries for NBC News. He has published articles in a variety of subjects and venues.

He is the author of Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth century (2001). The book discusses, clearly and accurately, key episodes of 20th-century espionage and cryptology involving the Zimmermann telegram; Enigma decryption and "Ultra"; the Second Battle of the Atlantic; Erwin Rommel; the Colossus computer; Frank Rowlett and Japan's Purple cipher; Allied Operation Overlord deceptions; World War II spies and spy organizations; Rudolf Roessler and the Lucy Spy Ring; Takeo Yoshikawa and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; Joseph J. Rochefort and the Battle of Midway; Richard Sorge; Donald Maclean; Klaus Fuchs; Venona; Oleg Penkovsky; and Ryszard Kukliński.

A thread through Gannon's book is the ubiquity of distortions in accounts of espionage and cryptology, and the readiness of unscrupulous individuals, agencies and countries to take credit for the achievements of others.

References

  • James Gannon, Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century, Washington, D.C., Brassey's, 2001.


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