Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was a lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman (Wildcat and Little Me) and Moose Charlap (Peter Pan) as well as Jule Styne, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Glover, Johnny Richards, and Marvin Hamlisch among others.
Her catalog boasts some of the biggest standards to emerge from Broadway stage scores including “The Best is Yet To Come”, “Witchcraft”, “Young at Heart”, “How Little We Know”, “Westport”, “Spring in Maine”, “The Rules Of the Road”, “Firefly”, “I’m Flying”, “I Gotta Crow”, “I Walk a Little Faster”, “You Fascinate Me So”, “Hey, Look Me Over”, “Tall Hopes”, “El Sombrero”, “One Day We Dance”, “It Amazes Me”, “The Other Side of the Tracks”, “Real Live Girl”, and “I’ve Got Your Number”.
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