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Robert Colby was a composer, songwriter ("My Friend the Ghost"), author and publisher, educated at the University of Mississippi, the American Theatre Wing and Juilliard, and a student of Otto Cesana. He wrote songs for the Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra (including the above tune) and for Ella Fitzgerald, Red Buttons, Vaughn Monroe, Howard Keel and Teresa Brewer. He joined ASCAP in 1954 and wrote the off-Broadway stage score for "Half-Past Wednesday" and the popular-song compositions "Warm Heart-Cold Feet", "How Lovely, How Lovely", "Jilted", "The Day the West Was Swung", "To the Movies We Go", "That Ol' Christmas Spirit", "Hey! Go A Little Slow", "Baby", "Too Bad", "Women Are Here To Stay", "Wintertime", "When Ev'rything Was Green", and "Where Do I Go From Here?".- Willie Mae Ford Smith was born on 23 June 1904 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA. She died on 2 February 1994 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.