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Don George

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{{about||the Canadian football player|Don George (Canadian football)|the American boxer|Don George (boxer)}}Don R. George (August 27, 1909 – 1987) was an American popular music lyricist. His songs include "The Yellow Rose of Texas"^[1] "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (1937), "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (1944) and "Everything but You" (1945).^[2] George has also written lyrics for film songs.^[1]

He was a personal friend^[3] and occasional lyricist of jazz composer Duke Ellington, whom he followed closely from 1943 until Ellington's death in 1974.^[1] It was with Ellington that he wrote many of hist best-known songs.^[2] George wrote a 1981 biography of Ellington titled Sweet Man: The Real Duke Ellington.

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1. ^¹²{{cite web |title=Jazz in print |publisher=The Jazz Man |url=http://www.thejazzman.com.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=101 |accessdate=23 April 2012}}
2. ^¹{{cite web |title=Don George |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |publisher=Allmusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-george-p306018 |accessdate=29 March 2012}}
3. ^{{cite book |title=Myself Among Others: A Life in Music |last1=Wein |first1=George |last2=Chinen |first2=Nate |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-306-81352-8 |page=175}}

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3 : American lyricists|1909 births|1987 deaths

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