Lane, Burton
(1912–1997)> COMPOSER
Burton Lane Composer Burton Levy, New York City, February 2, 1912; New York City, January 5, 1997. Lane studied piano as a child, then played various string instruments in his school’s orchestra and also began composing. After finishing high school, he was hired by Jerome H. Remick as a song plugger; there he met George Gershwin, who encouraged him to compose. In 1929, Lane contributed songs to the Broadway revue Three’s a Crowd (with lyricist Howard Dietz), and then partnered with Harold…