Arlen, Harold
(1905–1986)> COMPOSER
Harold Arlen Composer best remembered for his classic “Stormy Weather” Hyman Arluck, Buffalo, New York, February 15, 1905; New York City, April 23, 1986. Arlen was given piano lessons as a child, and he loved to sing. His main interest was jazz. He once said, “I even ran away from home once to hear the Original Memphis Five, a Dixieland group. They were my heroes.” When he began to compose pop songs, it was in jazz bands that he found his inspiration. When he was sixteen, he formed the Snappy…