Jerry Ross
Jerry Ross · Arts & Literature
Broadway composer (The Pajama Game)
1926, The Bronx, New York City, USA — 1955, New York City, USA
United States
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Jerry Ross was an American composer and lyricist who, in a brief partnership with Richard Adler, wrote the scores for the hit Broadway musicals The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955), both Tony Award winners, before his death at twenty-nine from a lung disease. Born Jerold Rosenberg in the Bronx to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he was Jewish.
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Broadway composer (The Pajama Game)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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