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Ignacio Herbert "Nacio Herb" Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American composer of popular songs, movie scores and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s. Amongst his most enduring work is the score for the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain.
Nacio Herb Brown. Music Department: Singin' in the Rain. In spite of the fact, that he only had been on a conservatory for only short time, he was a very successful popular composer, who wrote with lyricist and later producer Arthur Freed not only the songs for MGM musical and non-musical films, e.g. "Broadway Melody" for the movie "The ...
Songwriter ("Singin' in the Rain", "Temptation", "You Are My Lucky Star"), composer and publisher, educated at Musical Arts High School in Los Angeles, California. He operated a tailoring business, then became a realtor before becoming a composer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29—Nacio Herb Brown, the composer of such songs as “Singing in the Rain,” “You Are My Lucky Star” and “Pagan Love Song,” died of cancer here yesterday after an illness of 18...
Composer Nacio Herb Brown with his lyricist partner Arthur Freed were the first songwriting team hired by MGM Studios in the late 1920s, the dawn of the sound era in film. Around 1960 he made...
Nacio Brown passed away on September 28, 1964, in San Francisco, CA. Hits included “Pagan Love Song,” “You Are My Lucky Star,” “I’ve Got A Feelin’ You’re Foolin’,” and “Broadway Melody.”
American pop composer Nacio Herb Brown wrote for movie musicals from the late '20s into the early '50s, including the earliest films with soundtracks. Born in New Mexico in 1896 and raised in Los Angeles,…
Nacio Herb Brown has written 4 shows including Take a Chance (Composer), Singin' in the Rain (Composer), A Broadway Baby (Composer), Big Deal (Composer).
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The man who wrote the melody, Nacio Herb Brown, was one of the most successful of all Hollywood studio composers working during the first quarter-century of the film musical.
Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played. After his first hit "Coral Sea" (1920) and first big hit, "When Buddha Smiles" (1921), he eventually became a full-time composer.
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