Lou Handman


Lou Handman was an American composer.
Born in 1894 in New York City, in his early career he toured in vaudeville shows in Australia and New York. Handman worked closely with lyricist Roy Turk, with whom went on to make chart-topping hits such as:
Other hits were:
  • "Give Me a Smile and a Kiss"
  • "I Can't Get the One I Want"
  • "What Good Would it Do?"
  • "Is My Baby Blue Tonight?"
  • "No Nothing"
  • "Was it Rain?"
  • "Don't Ever Change"
  • "Baby Me"
  • "Puddin' Head Jones"
  • "Blue " - a hit for Marion Harris in 1923.
Handman died in Flushing, New York in 1956 and was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.