http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Weisman
In fact, it's basically become a legacy statement, as in this 2007 Los Angeles Times obituary:
BEN WEISMAN
He is thanked by Elvis Presley in the 1960s.
Weisman wrote or co-wrote a string of gold- and
platinum-selling songs for the singer.
Ben Weisman, 85; helped write many songs for Presley
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Ben Weisman, a classically trained pianist who helped write nearly 60 songs for Elvis Presley, including many for his movies, has died. He was 85.
Weisman died Sunday of complications of a stroke and pneumonia at a long-term care hospital in Los Angeles, his family told the Associated Press.
Weisman, whom Presley nicknamed "the mad professor," wrote or co-wrote a string of gold- and platinum-selling songs for Presley, including "Follow That Dream" and "Fame and Fortune."
Among the 57 songs are "Got a Lot O' Livin' to Do" for the movie "Loving You," "Wooden Heart" for "G.I. Blues," "Rock-a-Hula Baby" for "Blue Hawaii" and "Crawfish" for "King Creole."
"It seems like a long time ago that it all got started," Weisman said in a 1993 interview with The Times.
"But I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1956, and I was writing songs for Hill & Range Publishing in the Brill Building in New York City.
"At the time, even though my background had been in jazz, pop and classical music, I was writing a lot of country songs -- sometimes two a day -- for people like Lefty Frizzell, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb and Red Foley.
"One day my publisher, Jean Aberbach, called me into his office, told me that we had a new artist named Elvis Presley, and asked me to write some songs for him.
"So I watched Elvis on 'The Tommy Dorsey Show.' I didn't think it was anything special at first. I approached it the way I would any songwriting assignment, trying to figure out his range, and tried to get a feeling for his style. Then I sat down to write something for him."
He also wrote for other pop stars, including Barbra Streisand ("Love in the Afternoon"), Reba McEntire ("Silly Me"), Bobby Vee ("The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), and Conway Twitty ("Lonely Blue Boy").
Weisman was born Nov. 16, 1921, in Providence, R.I., and raised in Brooklyn.
He studied classical piano as a teenager and at the Juilliard School and served as a music director for the Army Air Forces during World War II.
Services were pending.
Los Angeles Times - Wednesday, May 23, 2007
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/193465375/
But unless I'm missing a tune somehow the legendary total is actually . . . 56 songs.
Count 'em for yourself . . .
A Dog's Life
All I Needed Was The Rain
Almost
Almost Always True
As Long As I Have You
Beyond The Bend
Change Of Habit
Chesay
Cindy, Cindy
Clambake
Crawfish
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die
Danny
Dominic
Don't Ask Me Why
Don't Leave Me Now
Do The Clam
Easy Come, Easy Go
Fame And Fortune
First In Line
Follow That Dream
Forget Me Never
Frankie And Johnny
Fun In Acapulco
Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do
Happy Ending
Hard Luck
Have A Happy
He's Your Uncle, Not Your Dad
How Can You Lose What You Never Had
I Got Lucky
I'll Be Back
I'll Never Know
In My Way
I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell
It Feels So Right
It's Carnival Time
It Won't Be Long
Let Us Pray
Moonlight Swim
Pocketful Of Rainbows
Riding The Rainbow
Rock-A-Hula Baby
Rubberneckin'
Signs of the Zodiac
Slowly But Surely
Spinout
Stay Away, Joe
Steppin' Out Of Line
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
There Is So Much World To See
This Is Living
Twenty Days And Twenty Nights
We Call On Him
Who Are You
Wooden Heart
That's all of 'em.
Is there anyone brave enough to take a look at the above and tell us ... is one title missing?
Or are my calculations correct?
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UPDATE: June 2015
I've long had a feeling the above photo with Ben Weisman is cropped.
Below is a more complete version of the image, which I have never seen before. It shows Elvis with Weisman's most frequent songwriting partner, Sid Wayne.
Gee Ben, why did you cut him out?
With songwriters Sid Wayne and Ben Weisman at MGM Studios, Culver City - March 1966
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UPDATE: December 2022
By chance today I found the original source of the photo with the songwriting team of Sid Wayne and Ben Wiseman!
It was published in July 1966. One wonders what Wayne thought when the photo started making the rounds with him cut out?
Cash Box - July 2, 1966
THANKS ELVIS—Elvis Presley was recently presented with a “Thanks Elvis” plaque by songwriters Sid Wayne (left) and Ben Weisman, who’ve written 52 Presley recordings over the past 10 years. The combined international sales of the disks has passed the 50 million mark.
"52 recordings"? Sorry, Cash Box, I only see 42 titles on that plaque.
Looking at my close-up of the songs listed, I'm surprised to see "Britches" in there. It was not used in the 1960 film "Flaming Star," and left unreleased until 1978. Hmm. What about the other 41 numbers?
Notice "Moonlight Swim," which was not written for Elvis. It had originally been placed as a August 1957 Capitol single for "new teen sensation" and future Oscar winner Joel Grey. It actually made the top 40 a few months later, in a cover version by actor Tony Perkins. And the songwriters are Sylvia Dee and Ben Weisman!
And then there's "First In Line," which is on Elvis' second RCA LP in 1956 but written by Aaron Schroeder and Weisman!
There's a whole lot of fudgin' going on!
Oh well, no one seemed to notice then.
And just me now, in the 21st century.
Thank you to FECC member and super-fan Glen Johnson for the topic inspiration.
BONUS CASH
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