Question: Jay Livingston, was an American composer best known as half of a songwriting duo with which American songwriter?

Context articles: Ray Evans
Out Here on My Own
Jay Gruska
Why Girls Leave Home (1945 film)
Jay Livingston
Carner and Gregor
Magnus Lidehäll
Storyhill
Ben McCain
Buttons and Bows

Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter.
 He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston the music for the songs.
"Out Here on My Own" is a ballad from the 1980 musical film "Fame", performed by Irene Cara.
 It was written by sibling songwriting duo Lesley Gore (lyricist) and Michael Gore (composer).
 The song was produced by Michael Gore, and published by MGM BMI/Variety ASCAP.
 Cara performed the song at the 1981 Academy Awards, where the song was nominated for Best Original Song.
 The song was released on the soundtrack to the 1980 film "Fame", which also contains an instrumental version of the track.
Jay Gruska (born April 23, 1952) is an American songwriter and composer best known for his film and television scoring, and for writing hit songs for a variety of artists.
 He has composed musical scores for dozens of TV dramas, with over 500 hours of shows played internationally.
Why Girls Leave Home is a 1945 American drama film directed by William Berke, wrote by Fanya Foss and Bradford Ropes, and starring Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard and Pamela Blake.
 The film's composer, Walter Greene, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1945.
 Also Jay Livingston and Ray Evans was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Cat and the Canary".
Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote music and words along with Evans the lyrics.
Carner and Gregor are an American musical theatre songwriting duo consisting of Sam Carner and Derek Gregor.
 They are the recipients of a 2004 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for their musical "Unlock'd".
 The team has collaborated since 2002, with Carner working as the lyricist and Gregor as the composer.
 They reside and work in New York City.
Magnus Lidehäll is a Swedish award winning producer, composer and songwriter.
 He works extremely close with songwriting duo Vincent Pontare and Salem Al Fakir – with whom he won the composer of the year award at the Swedish Grammy Awards in 2014.
 Together they have produced, written, and/or co-written songs for: Madonna, Wyclef Jean & Avicii ("Divine Sorrow"), Veronica Maggio and Petter to name a few.
Storyhill is an American folk duo, composed of Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson.
 The acoustic songwriting duo formed in Bozeman, Montana in 1989 simply as Chris & Johnny.
 They did not adopt the name Storyhill until 1996.
 They started performing together in Montana and later Minnesota, creating a strong grass-roots following before surprisingly breaking up in 1997.
 After this, both Hermanson and Cunningham separately pursued solo and group musical endeavors.
 Hermanson performed with the band Alva Star and the band The Hopefuls, while Cunningham performed with Sixth Sense and singer-songwriter Justin Roth.
 Much to their listeners' enjoyment, the pair later happily reunited.
 After a number of self-produced albums they signed with Red House Records to produce the album "Storyhill" (2007), which received favorable reviews.
 The album was voted "Best Acoustic Ensemble CD of the year" by the "Indie Acoustic Music Project".
 The group is a winner of the 2007 Kerrville New Folk Competition.
Ben McCain (born June 25, 1955) is an American actor, broadcaster, producer and one half of The McCain Brothers, a singing songwriting duo.
 In addition to network television appearances, McCain has appeared in feature films, including MGM's "Bio-Dome", Roger Corman's remake of "Humanoids from the Deep", "Dragonlance: Dragon's of Autumn Twilight" and Bruce Campbell's "My Name Is Bruce".
 The McCain Brothers also wrote and performed the theme song for "My Name is Bruce", "Guan Di Is His Name."
"Buttons and Bows" was a popular song with music written by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Ray Evans.
 The song was published in 1947.
 The song was written for and appeared in the Bob Hope and Jane Russell film, "The Paleface", and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
 It was originally written with an Indian theme, but was changed when the director said that would not work in the movie.
 It was a vocal selection on many radio programs in late 1948.
 It was reprised in the sequel, "Son of Paleface", by Roy Rogers, Jane Russell and Bob Hope.
 In 2004 it finished #87 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of the top tunes in American cinema.