Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
John Sheehan (actor)
John Sheehan( October 22, 1885 – February 14, 1952) was an American actor and vaudeville performer.
After acting onstage and in vaudeville for several years, Sheehan began making films in 1914, starring in a number of short films.
From 1914- 16, he appeared in over 60 films, the vast majority of them film shorts.
He returned exclusively to the stage in 1917, where he remained until the advent of sound films.
He returned to the screen with a featured role in the 1930 melodrama," Swing High", starring Helen Twelvetrees.
His more notable performances and roles include: the first talking version of the film" Kismet"( 1930), starring Otis Skinner and Loretta Young; a featured role in 1934's" Little Miss Marker", starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou; Michael Curtiz's" Kid Galahad"( 1937), starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn romantic comedy" Woman of the Year"( 1942); the classic biopic" The Pride of the Yankees"( 1943), starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright; another 1943 biographical film," Yankee Doodle Dandy", starring James Cagney; the Abbott and Costello comedy" Buck Privates Come Home"( 1947); and the last film to be released in which he appeared was 1952's" Somebody Loves Me", starring Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker, which was released several months after Sheehan's death.
While" Somebody Loves Me" was his last film to be released, the last film which Sheehan worked on was the 1952 Tracy and Hepburn romantic comedy" Pat and Mike".
Production on" Pat and Mike" was in early 1952, and it was released in June of that year, four months after Sheehan died.
Brad Newman
Brad Newman( born Charles Melvyn Thomas in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, 6 December 1938, died in Spain on 18 January 1999) was an English singer- songwriter and pianist who, in 1962, reached number 47 in the UK Singles Chart with the song" Somebody to Love".
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres.
Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and "An American in Paris" (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standard "
I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera "Porgy and Bess" (1935) which spawned the hit "Summertime".
Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody.
He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva.
He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him.
He subsequently composed "An American in Paris", returned to New York City and wrote "Porgy and Bess" with Ira and DuBose Heyward.
Initially a commercial failure
, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic.
Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores.
He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor.
His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television, with several becoming jazz standards recorded and covered in many variations.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Susie van der Meer
Susie van der Meer( born 1973) is a German singer- songwriter.
She is known primarily around the world for her contribution to the" Run Lola Run" soundtrack, with her song" Somebody Has To Pay".
Somebody Loves Me
"Somebody Loves Me" is a popular song, with music written by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva.
This is not to be confused with the Southern gospel song written by W.F. & Marjorie Crumley.
The song was published in 1924 and featured in George White's Scandals of 1924.
There were a number of popular versions in 1924 and 1925 by Paul Whiteman, Ray Miller, Marion Harris and Cliff Edwards (aka "Ukulele Ike") with the Whiteman version being top-rated.
One of the later better-known versions was by The Four Lads.
This recording was made on August 18, 1952 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39865.
It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on October 18, 1952.
It peaked at #22 on the charts.
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".

Question: Why did the composer of song Somebody Loves Me die?
Answer: malignant brain tumor