Joan Edwards(1919-1981)

Composer, songwriter ("Anytime", "And So It Ended", "I Love Bosco" [commercial]), singer and pianist, a niece of Gus and Leo Edwards, educated at Hunter College and a piano student of Raphael Samuel. She was a pianist and featured singer with the Paul Whiteman orchestra between 1938 and 1940, and a featured singer on radio's "Your Hit Parade". Also, she appeared often in hotels, night clubs, and films. She composed the Broadway stage score for "Tickets, Please", and also wrote songs for the Copacabana revues in New York. Joining ASCAP in 1950, her musical collaborators included Lyn Duddy and her brother Jack Edwards. Her other popular-song compositions include "Darn It, Baby, That's Love", "You Can't Take It With You When You Go", "Do You Still Feel the Same?", and "Television's Tough on Love".