Jack Yellen
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Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń) (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist.
Yellen's family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He attended the University of Michigan and on graduating became a reporter on the Buffalo Courier in Buffalo, New York. He is best remembered for his collaboration with composer Milton Ager. He and Ager entered the music publishing business as part owners of the Ager-Yellen-Bernstein Music Company.
His collaboration with vaudeville star, Sophie Tucker, for whom he was retained to write special material, produced one of Tucker's most well known songs, "My Yiddishe Momme," a song in English with some Yiddish text. Yellen wrote the lyrics which were set to music by Lew Pollack.
Yellen wrote the lyrics to more than 200 popular songs of the early 20th century. Two of his most recognized songs, still popular in the 21st century, are Happy Days Are Here Again, and the Beatles favorite Ain't She Sweet.
Jack Yellen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
He died in Concord, New York, aged 98.
