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	Fran Landesman Biography and Summary
		Jay and Fran Landesman are perhaps best known for Jay's editorship of the ground-breaking magazine, Neurotica, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and for Fran's man...
		Landesman was born Frances Deitsch on October 21 1927 in New York City.
		Her father was a dress manufacturer, her mother was a journalist; she has one brother, Sam.
	www.bookrags.com /Fran_Landesman (110 words)

	Fran Landesman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her first career was in the fashion industry in New York, where she met writer Jay Landesman, whom she married in July 1950, and with whom she had two sons, Cosmo and Miles Davis.
		Fran Landesmann's experiencs sitting in the bar of the Crystal Palace, listening to musicians and audiences, led her to begin writing song lyrics in 1952, including one of her best-known: “Spring can really hang you up the most”.
		In 1964 the Landesmans moved to London, where Fran wrote lyrics for a number of well-know musicians (with an emphasis on jazz), as well as for another of her husband's musicals, Dearest Dracula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fran_Landesman (334 words)

	Jazz News Story - A New American Songbook?@ jazzreview.com
		Legendary New York born lyricist Fran Landesman augments her already impressive oevre with It's A Nice Thought, a new CD of songs recorded with vocalist Sarah Moule and pianist/arranger Simon Wallace for Scottish jazz label Linn Records (AKD 192 www.linnrecords.com).
		In her work with the Welsh born, world traveled composer Simon Wallace, the music and lyrics combine to create a tough, witty, ironic expression of contemporary life in songs that caress the heart and remain in the head long after the music is over.
		Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers: her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the decadent.
	www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=1080 (393 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| Queen of the bohemian dream
		Conventional is not a word often associated with poet and lyricist Fran Landesman, but her latest burst of creativity - at 75, she has just written a new album of songs - must have surprised even her most ardent admirers.
		It is the latest chapter in a story that begins in New York, where Landesman was born and where she met and married publisher Jay Landesman.
		Few would argue with the fact that Landesman has carved an almost unique niche for herself with verses that are witty, sad, technically accomplished and imbued with their own bitter-sweet bohemianism.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/music/1818769.stm (980 words)

	It's A Nice Thought - Sarah Moule
		THE JAZZ WORLD’S answer to Dorothy Parker, Fran Landesman is a septuagenarian bundle of enthusiasm, brains, and super-literacy.
		Fran’s original composing partner, the pianist-singer Tommy Wolf, noted this in the liner notes of a 1956 album, Wolf at Your Door.
		Fran’s words are as probing as ever, but her humor is fler, the bruises defiantly displayed.
	www.spinningdogrecords.com /2.html (646 words)

	Guardian \| Fran Landesman
		Landesman came to recite some of her elegant ironies and off-handedly hilarious surveys of the Achilles heels of humanity at Lauderdale House in Highgate, north London.
		But Landesman (who found her feet on the Kerouac/Ginsberg American beat scene of the 1950s) has always gravitated toward jazz and jazz singers.
		Landesman has lived in Britain for over 30 years, and since the mid-90s her output has redoubled rather than settled back on the laurels of two wonderful and much-recorded originals, Spring Can Really Hang You Up and The Ballad of the Sad Young Men.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4510632-110430,00.html (342 words)

	Fran(ces) Landesman Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		The following essay discusses the work of Fran Landesman and her husband, Jay Landesman.
		Jay and Fran Landesman are perhaps best known for Jay's editorship of the ground-breaking magazine, Neurotica, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and for Fran's many lyrics for jazz-influenced popular songs.
		Together, they wrote the first, and so far the only, Beat musical, The Nervous Set, and several other musical plays that reflected an attitude toward contemporary life similar to that of the New York Beat writers who were their friends.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/frances-landesman-dlb (114 words)

	Untitled Document
		They married in 1950 and shortly afterwards, initially much to Fran's chagrin, moved to Jay's home town of St Louis.In St Louis with the help of Jay's elder brother, painter and art collector Fred Landesman, they opened what was to become one of the hippest night spots in the mid- West the legendary Crystal Palace.
		Fran and Tommy soon began writing songs which he would sing nightly to the drinking masses at the Crystal Palace.
		Fran and Simon's songs are now beginning to attract attention on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to recordings and performances by singers such as Nicki Leighton-Thomas, Ian Shaw, Sarah Moule, Susannah McCorkle and Imelda Staunton.
	www.franlandesman.com /code/biogs/franbiog.html (1903 words)

	Camden New Journal - News Reviews & Listings
		If the macho American writer and the controversy-courting columnist from Essex were to meet then perhaps the only thing they could agree on is that Jay and Fran Landesman – the last remaining members of the Beat Generation of poets, writers and bon-vivants – are a unique pair.
		She says: ‘I married you for better or for worse, but never for lunch’.” Fran lives upstairs, waiting for the grip of her muse and writing poetry on scraps of paper.
		Fran wrote the lyrics for the Nervous Set – the first jazz musical, Jay says, although he is hard pressed to name any others.
	www.thecnj.co.uk /archive/2004_archive/010704/r010704_4.html (827 words)

	WHMC St. Louis sl 608 LANDESMAN, FRAN (1927- ) PAPERS, 1959-1998
		Poet and songwriter Fran Landesman donated her papers to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the spring of 1999.
		Fran wrote lyrics for songs by Alec Wilder, Steve Allen, Tommy Wolf, George Shearing, Richard Rodney Bennett, and Dudley Moore; and she wrote the lyrics for another musical, "Dearest Dracula," produced by her husband at the Dublin Theater Festival.
		In addition Fran has translated songs by Edith Piaf and Jaques Brel from French into English, written screenplays and song lyrics for plays, and in recent years she has collaborated with Simon Wallace on a CD of Landesman/Wallace songs sung by Nicki Leighton Thomas.
	www.umsl.edu /~whmc/guides/whm0608.htm (1926 words)

	Women of the Beat...Fran Landesman Biography
		Fran continued writing songs for musical theater and jazz standards, many of which were recorded by musicians such as Sarah Vaughn, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald.
		The Landesmans also had two sons during this period, Miles and Cosmo, and when the area around the Palace began deteriorating in the mid 60s, the family relocated to North London.
		During the 70s, Fran began writing poetry and performing her poetry and songs in live venues.
	www.womenofthebeat.org /FranLandesman/FranLandesman2.htm (265 words)

	www.myspace.com/simonandmiles
		Fran, often described as 'the first lady of beat poetry', has been writing songs since the 1950's.
		Recently Simon collaborated with Fran Landesman by writing the music to her beautiful lyrics 'All My Songs'.
		Miles Davis Landesman was born in St Lois in 1958.
	www.myspace.com /82354293 (1395 words)

	POETRY : SONNET XLIII - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
		Fran Landesman was born in Manhattan in 1927 and has lived in London since the early Sixties.
		Fran Landesman wrote this in the Fifties, before the Gay Liberation movement.
		And the one unquestioned benefit of that has to be the fact that the Sad Young Man stereotype doesn't have to be true.
	www.gaybombay.org /reading/poem0005.html (655 words)

	Candid Productions Ltd. Leighton-Thomas Nicki - Forbidden Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The result was an album and assorted gigs which followed, until one show at The Groucho Club when musical director Simon Wallace asked her to meet jazz lyricist, Fran Landesman (’The legendary doyen of songwriters’ Evening Standard).
		Landesman, creator of Spring can Really Hang You Up the Most, Ballad of the Sad Young Men et al has come up with 13 brand new lyrics.
		Landesman’s lyrics are sharp as razors and dripping with bitter venom a she twists our her cynical observations of love and fidelity.
	candidrecords.com /acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Leighton_Thomas_Nicki___Forbidden_Games_30.html (541 words)

	Linn Records: the real sound of music, classical, jazz and folk CDs
		This multichannel SACD from Linn is Sarah Moule’s second disc for the label and collects songs from Johnny Mercer and Fran Landesman.
		Moule is not a heart-on-sleeve emotion-wringer, but a thoughtful interpreter of a lyric, so Landesman's unflinching self-scrutiny suits her well, and supported by some powerful guest performances from the likes of saxophonist Pete Wareham and guitarist Jim Mullen, Something's Gotta Give is both immediately enjoyable and thought-provoking.
		The Landesman songs are skillfully interspersed with standards which have lyrics by Johnny Mercer: a guarantee of brilliance.
	www.linnrecords.com /cd_information/album_review.asp?RecordingID=317 (640 words)

	Read about Fran Landesman at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Fran Landesman and learn about Fran Landesman here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Landesmann was born Frances Deitsch on October 21,
		Jay Landesman, whom she married in July 1950, and with whom she had two sons, Cosmo and Miles Davis.
		The Palace's pianist, Tommy Wolf, set this to music, and it became a hit, leading to more Landesman–Wolf creations, including the songs for The Nervous Set (a Broadway musical by Landesman's husband) and Molly Darling (a musical by her husband and
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Fran_Landesman (301 words)

	Sondheim.com - Putting it together since 1994.
		Simon Wallace was reading a past column in which I mentioned the lyricist Fran Landesman (she of Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most) and he tells me that Ms.
		Landesman is alive and well and living in London, and is still writing songs, and in fact is writing them with Mr.
		Fran is now seventy-two years of age and still seeking recognition.
	www.sondheim.com /features/column_a/87.html (4116 words)

	Landesmania - the Jay Landesman home pages
		Jay Landesman's Beat generation was not manufactured by journalists out of San Francisco or New York, or academics who lectured and wrote books about the Beat's rides to Nirvarna.
		'Landesman was always very insightful, very ahead of everybody on the culture scene, and very encouraging.
		to read Landesman is to be present at the invention of contemporary America.
	www.landesmania.com (130 words)

	The Nervous Set
		None of these sources matched any other, so the Landesmans decided that the script was the final authority on the lyrics and the solo album was the final word on style and arrangement.
		Jay Landesman wrote in his autobiography, "Rodgers was extremely generous and complimentary to Fran and Tommy.
		Jay, Fran, and the Beats will sing again, and once more give us a rare insider’s glimpse into a time in America when literally everything was changing.
	www.stage-directions.com /articles/nervousset.shtml (1055 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - Cool and Hip: Gaslight Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Central to the development of the area were Jay and Fran Landesman, whose Crystal Palace was the area's anchor, presenting the very best of a new generation of entertainers: Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, Phyllis Diller, Nichols and May, Stiller and Meara, the Smothers brothers, an eighteen-year-old Barbra Streisand-and many more.
		Here she puts her lively sparkle into Fran Landesman and also gets a chance to be (among others) Barbra Streisand and (talk about casting against type) Phyllis Diller.
		There they became hippies-come-lately (much to the embarrassment of their school-age son), and Fran continues as a songwriter to this day.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/cool_and_hip.html (607 words)

	Julie Burchill - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She has written many books and has made a television documentary regarding the death of her father from asbestosis.
		Burchill was briefly married to Parsons and then to Cosmo Landesman, the son of Fran and Jay Landesman.
		In 1990 Burchill and Landesman established a short-lived magazine Modern Review through which she met Charlotte Raven and the pair had a much publicised affair.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Julie_Burchill (481 words)

	Fran Landesman Tour Dates & Tickets
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	www.ents24.com /web/artist/38841/Fran_Landesman.html (79 words)

	>> Barbra Streisand Archives \| The Crystal Palace \| 1961
		Barbra forged a few "six degrees of separation" while working there in 1961.
		Fran and Jay Landesman were the owners, and former New Yorkers.
		The St. Louis newspapers wrote that Barbra was a "chic singer with vocal prowess unusual for a girl of 18".
	barbra-archives.com /Performances/streisand_crystalpalace.html (180 words)

	BBC News \| MUSIC \| Queen of the bohemian dream
		Landesman (L) with new collaborator, Simon Wallace (R) By BBC News Online's Alex Webb
		With club regulars Larry Hagman (on piano) and pianist Tommy Wolf (R) "St Louis was on the way down with urban decay.
		In the UK Landesman found herself more in demand as a poet than a lyricst.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1818769.stm (940 words)

	Fran Landesman - New York: Reviews, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fran Landesman - New York: Reviews, Audio Clips, and more
		Fran Landesman - New York: Reviews, Audio Clips, and more
		New York [+] performed by,, written by Fran Landesman [+], Tommy Wolf [+]
	www.music.com /performance/new_york/106 (96 words)

	Power Line: The anxiety of influence
		It didn't take long to discover that the song's composers are Fran Landesman (lyrics) and Tommy Wolf (music).
		Even though the song sounds like a classic of the Great American Songbook variety, Landesman is alive and has set up her own site to expound on her art:
		According to the intriguing biography on her site, Landesman wrote the song shortly after she initiated her collaboration with Tommy Wolf at the Crystal Palace in St. Louis:
	www.powerlineblog.com /archives/010151.php (452 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Nicki Leighton-Thomas
		After taking a year off to bring baby Mathilde into the world, she's back with the launch of her of her new album Forbidden Games.
		The album contains thirteen new lyrics written by the legendary American songwriter, Fran Landesman.
		She joins Jenni to talk about the appeal of Fran Landesman's lyrics.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/womanshour/2002_03_tue_04.shtml (94 words)

	Bob's Log - Farewell to a Memorable Year
		Returning to New York soon after, I swung immediately into a two-night gig at Joe's Pub in the East Village, where I was the guest of super lyricist Fran Landesman.
		Jackie sang some of these in her all-too-brief segment of the show, illustrating in the process why many of us believe Jackie is definitely ready to return as a solo singer.
		For my portion of the show, I focused on some of the songs that I’ve penned to Fran’s lyrics, including some I’ll bet you already know.
	www.bobdorough.com /Log_Entries/farewell.htm (832 words)

	Julie Burchill - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		She has made many books and has written about and made a television programme regarding the death of her father from asbestosis.
		In 1990 Burchill and Landesman established a short-lived magazine "Modern Review " through which she met Charlotte Raven and the pair had a publicised affair.
		She recently married again, to a much younger man, and wrote of the joys of having a "toyboy" in her Times' Weekend Review column.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Julie_Burchill (233 words)

	Landesman Jay - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To search for published plays by Jay Landesman click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Jay Landesman.
		Lyrics by Fran Landesman, Music by Tommy Wolf
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsL/LandesmanJay.htm (134 words)

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