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From: R R Kyser <>
Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:12:29 -0600

That was the name of a 1947 song with words and music jointly credited
to Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer. They wrote even more popular numbers,
the best known going "I call my sugar 'Candy'...". Does anyone know how
Joan relates to us?

This is from her entry in the 1952 "ASCAP Biographical Dictionary":

"Whitney, Joan, composer, author [i.e., lyricist], singer, music
publisher; b. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 26, 1914. ASCAP 1942. Educ.:
Winchester and Carnegie Inst. of Technology, Pittsburgh; Finch College,
New York. Started in show business as singer in "The Great Show". Then
had own show on C.B.S., also recording artist. Member of staff New York
music publishing house 1940; formed own music publishing house 1947...
Home: Forest Hills..."

She died July 12, 1990 of complications of Alzheimer's. Her husband and
songwriting partner was Alex Charles Kramer, b. Montreal May 30, 1903.

Several of their songs' lyrics are posted online, but as the
authorization thereof is questionable, I won't post the URLs here; if
you're interested, simply Google 'em. Below, I've listed all of the
Whitney/Kramer titles I could find, as well as some related links.

Cheers,
Ron Kyser



Written with Alex Kramer:

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Behave Yourself
Before I Loved You
Dangerous Dan McGrew
Deep as the River
Down in Chi-chi Hotcha Watchee
Far Away Places
High on a Windy Hill
I Could Tell That You Knew
I Only Saw Him Once
Leave Me With Your Kisses
Let's Not and Say We Did
Love Somebody
Money is the Root of All Evil
My Own Bit of Land
No Man Is An Island
Song of Calypso Joe
That's the Beginning of the End
That's the Way It Is
Why Is It?

Written with Alex Kramer and Mack David (lyricist of Disney's Cinderella
and older brother to Burt Bacharach's collaborator Hal):

Candy
It's Love, Love, Love


Written with Alex Kramer and Hy Zaret:

Calling All Hearts
The Doll With the Sawdust Heart
Got a Letter From My Kid Today
I'm Not Afraid
It All Comes Back to Me Now
My Sister and I
No Other Arms, No Other Lips
So You're the One
Train of Love
You'll Never Get Away
Yo Te Amo

Written with Alex Kramer and Hy Zaret to music by Bruno Coquatrix and
French words by Piere Dudan:

Comme Ci, Comme Ça


Hear a short RealPlayer clip of "That's the Way It Is" sung by Clare
Teal:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/onair/davies_teal1.shtml

Alex and Joan apparently appeared on Milton Berle's show, now available
on video:
http://www.tvdays.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=VRA&Product_Code=
0143&Category_Code=comedy

Some sheet-music covers:
http://www.antique-hangups.com/1415.htm
http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/sheetmusicplus/iteml/smp000352
http://antiques.goantiques.com/search/images.jsp?id=236482

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