Stan Freeman

Stan Freeman

Stanley Freedman (April 3 1920 - January 13 2001) was an American composer, lyricist, musical arranger, conductor, and studio musician.

Biography

Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Freeman studied classical piano in college and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Hartford. After serving in World War II, he joined Tex Beneke's big band, eventually leaving to perform as a pianist and later a comic in nightclubs.

Freeman's work as a studio musician included sessions with Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Percy Faith, Mabel Mercer, and Rosemary Clooney, for whom he played harpsichord on her hit "Come on-a My House."

Freeman's first Broadway project was the 1964 Buddy Hackett vehicle "I Had a Ball". He also composed the score for "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen", the short-lived 1970 musical adaptation of "The Teahouse of the August Moon".

Freeman conducted Broadway concerts for Marlene Dietrich in 1967 and 1968 and provided arrangements for three of Michael Feinstein's Broadway outings.

Freeman was nominated for the 1992 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show for "At Wit's End", a tribute to Oscar Levant.

Freeman's television work included composing special musical material for Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore. With Arthur Malvin he shared the Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Special Musical Material for the mini-musical "Hi-Hat" performed by Burnett with guest Fred Astaire on the January 8 1978 episode of her eponymous television variety series.

Freeman's solo recordings include "Piano Sweethearts", "Piano Moods", "Come on-a Stan's house: Stan Freeman at the Harpsichord", "Fascination", "Manhattan", "At the Blue Angel", and "Everybody's Twistin"'.

Freeman died of emphysema in Los Angeles, California.

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