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Finding Aid for the Harry Lubin Collection of Television and Motion
Picture Music ca.
1945-ca.1970
28-M
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Title: Harry Lubin Collection of Television and Motion Picture
Music,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1945-ca.1970
Collection number: 28-M
Creator: Lubin,
Harry
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Manuscript scores, or scores and parts, of music
composed by Lubin for the Loretta Young show, One step beyond, The Outer Limits,
and various other television shows; music for the motion pictures Disaster,
Wyoming Mail, Waterfront at Midnight, Mr. Reckless, Caged Fury, and Tibet;
miscellaneous themes, cues, and songs with lyrics.
[Identification of item], Harry Lubin Collection of Television and Motion
Picture Music, 28-M, Performing Arts Special Collections , University of
California, Los Angeles.
During his three decades of showbusiness, Harry Lubin attained musical
distinction in three fields: composing; conducting and arranging. From the time
he began his career at the age of 19 as a piano accompanist for the renowed
basso, Feodore Chaliapin, Lubin has been musically active on the concert state,
in the Broadway legitimate theater, in the recording field, in opera, radio,
motion pictures and television.
At the age of 20, he was musical director of the irving Palace Theatre in New
York, where he wrote his first operetta. He leftthe Irving Palace to become one
of the youngest musical directors in the foreign department of the Aeolian,
Vocalian, and later, the Brunswich Phonograph Company.
In 1932, Lubin conducted and arranged the music for Max Gordon's "Making
Mary," which was produced on Broadway that year. When he left Brunswich, Lubin
joined the late S.L. Rothafel at his theater, where he was responsible for
one-hour condensations of various operas. He moved over to NBC with Rothafel
until Rothafel's death in 1936.
In 1938, Lubin joined the Advertisers Broadcasters Company as musical
director. During a seven-year tenure, he was in charge of as many as 28 shows
per week.
In January, 1945, Lubin became the musical director for the radio program,
"Galmour Manor." In August of that year, he resigned from the Advertisers
Broadcasting Company in order to go to the West Coast with "Glamour Manor" on
the ABC network. While in California he composed and scored music for five
films.
Lubin made his television debut at musical director for the first "Pinky Lee
Show." When Loretta young began her own television series, Lubin was selected to
be the music director.
The collection consists of manuscript scores, or scores and parts, of music
composed by Lubin for the Loretta Young Show, One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits,
and various other television shows; music for the motion pictures Disaster,
Wyoming Mail, Waterfront at Midnight, Mr. Reckless, Caged Fury, and Tibet;
miscellaneous themes, cues, and songs with lyrics. Also included is Harry
Lubin's file of collection contents, including cue titles.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Television Projects
- Series 2. Film Projects
- Series 3. Bridges
- Series 4. Sound Recordings