Merrily We Live (1938)

ASCAP lists the composer of "Merrily We Live" as Philip Charig, composer and songwriter ("Let Yourself Go", "Where Are You?"); born in New York City, educated at Commerce High School. He joined ASCAP in 1927, and composed the Broadway stage scores for Yes, Yes, Yvette, Just Fancy, and Follow the Girls, and the London stage scores for That's a Good Girl, and Stand Up and Sing. He wrote songs for the Broadway revues Allez-Oop and Americana (1926), and Shoot the Works, and also for films and television. His chief musical collaborators included Ira Gershwin, Leo Robin, Dan Shapiro, Irving Caesar, and Milton Pascal. His popular-song compositions also include "For Days and Days", "Six O'Clock", "Happy Melody", "One-Two-Three", "Sunny Disposish", "Sweet So-and-So", "Fancy Our Meeting", "The One I'm Looking For", "It's Not You", "Take It or Leave It", "There's Almost Tomorrow", "I Wanna Get Married", and "Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well." His songs (lyrics by Arthur Quenzer) "The Cricket Song," "Could You Say No to Me?" and "I Can't Get Over the Alps" were used in Laurel and Hardy's SWISS MISS (1938).    Nominated for Music Best Song 1938: MERRILY WE LIVE "Merrily We Live" - Music 1 nomination