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Sam Lewis "Cross I Wear" Play Video

Sam Lewis "Cross I Wear"

Sam Lewis performing "Cross I Wear" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 12.07.2011

Sam Lewis featuring KT Tunstall - Another Lifetime Play Video

Sam Lewis featuring KT Tunstall - Another Lifetime

New Single from Sam Lewis, featuring KT Tunstall Album - Everything You Are Out Now on Rusk Records Available for download from iTunes etc

Sam Lewis "In My Dreams" Play Video

Sam Lewis "In My Dreams"

Sam Lewis performing "In My Dreams" at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 12.07.2011

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PRESENTED BY LAYLA ANNA-LEE Encompassing influences from folk music to country and acoustic soul, Everything You Are was written on the road - airport lounges, hotel lobbies, tour buses, dressing rooms, you name it -...

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INTERVIEW AND SESSION FILMED FOR BALCONY TV LONDON PRESENTED BY IVAN BERRY PRODUCED BY VIDEO-BOX "If I had to say what my ambition was, it would be to follow in the footsteps of Williams, Dylan, Johnson, Waits and...

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Sam Lewis Biography

Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York on October 25, 1885. Lewis began his music career by singing in cafes throughout New York City, and began writing songs in 1912. He wrote numerous songs, and collaborated with other song writers, most frequently with Joe Young, but also with Fred Ahlert, Walter Donaldson, Bert Grant, Harry Warren, Jean Schwartz, Ted Fiorito, J. Fred Coots, Ray Henderson, Victor Young, Peter DeRose, and Harry Akst. He also contributed to the Broadway musical The Laugh Parade, and Hollywood musicals such as Squibs Wins The Calcutta Sweep, The Singing Fool, Wolf Song, and Spring is Here. His songs have been used in more modern movies, such as Big Fish and The Pelican Brief. Sam Lewis was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1914, and was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. He died in New York City on November 22, 1959.

Songs include: *"For All We Know" *"Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" *"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" *"Just Friends (Klemmer/Lewis"

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