Career
Born in New York City, New York, and after attending secondary school, Hilliard began work as a lyricist in Tin Pan Alley. He penned "The Coffee Song", his first successful number, at the age of 28. On Broadway, Hilliard wrote successful scores for both Angel in the Wings (1947) and Hazel Flagg (1953). He also worked in the role as lyricist for the film score to Alice in Wonderland (1951). This included providing the words to the song, "I'm Late". The 1954 comedy film, Living It Up, included his songs "Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket," and "That's What I Like."
Hilliard had later success as joint composer of "Our Day Will Come". The song was a #1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 for Ruby & the Romantics.
In his lifetime, Hilliard worked with a number of composers and lyricists including Burt Bacharach, Carl Sigman, Jule Styne, Mort Garson, Sammy Mysels, Dick Sanford, Milton DeLugg, Philip Springer, Lee Pockriss and Sammy Fain.
Married to Jacqueline Dalya, Hilliard was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
Bob Hilliard died at the age of 53, in Hollywood, California, on February 1, 1971.
Read more about this topic: Bob Hilliard
Famous quotes containing the word career:
“He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good for me was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction... and though strongly, and perhaps wisely, warned that I should probably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with the results of the line of action I have adopted.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”
—Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964)