American musician and playwright, lyricist

Eugene Raskin

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American musician and playwright, lyricist

Eugene Raskin or Gene Raskin (Bronx, New York, September 5, 1909 – Manhattan, New York, June 7, 2004), was an American musician and playwright, author of the lyrics of the English version of the Russian song "Those Were the Days" and also of three books on architecture and adjunct professor at Columbia University (1936–1976).