Livingston, Jerry

Jerry Livingston Composer Jerome Levinson, Denver, Colorado, March 25, 1909; Beverly Hills, California, July 1, 1987. Livingston ’s father, Sam Levinson, traveled from Denver to New York at the age of nineteen, where he enjoyed a brief singing career. Returning to Denver, he established a family. Livingston began playing piano in local bands as a teenager. Around 1932, he settled in New York after playing a road job in Ohio, and began composing songs. By the late 1930s, he was heading his own…