Adler, Richard

Richard Adler Composer, lyricist, Broadway producer New York City, August 3, 1921). Adler is best remembered for two 1950s musicals, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees , written with his partner, lyricist Jerry Ross Jerold Rosenberg, The Bronx, New York, March 9, 1926; New York City, November 11, 1955. The two began working together in the early 1950s to compose pop songs. They scored big with 1953’s “Rags to Riches,” a two-million-selling #1 hit for Tony Bennett (Columbia 40048). Its success led…