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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
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Kim Gannon
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Johnny Mandel
Johnny Mandel
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
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Jimmy Van Heusen
Jimmy Van Heusen
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Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas A. Dorsey
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Ray McKinley
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Bobby Troup
Bobby Troup
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Johnny Frigo
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Sammy Cahn
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Sy Oliver
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Tom Adair
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Paul Whiteman
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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael
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John Rotella
John Rotella
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Isham Jones
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Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson
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Jack Lawrence
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Babe Russin
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Johnny Burke
Johnny Burke
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Johnny Mercer
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John Altman
John Altman
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Nathaniel Shilkret
Nathaniel Shilkret
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Al Stillman
Al Stillman
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Larry Clinton
Larry Clinton
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Freddie Slack
Freddie Slack
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Axel Stordahl
Axel Stordahl
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Sonny Burke
Sonny Burke
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Rube Bloom
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Matt Dennis
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Jim Steinman
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Ray Bauduc
Ray Bauduc
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Arthur Altman
American songwriter

Arthur Altman

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Arthur Altman (1910, Brooklyn – January 18, 1994, Lake Worth, Florida) was an American songwriter whose credits include "All or Nothing at All", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence, and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I", "I Will Follow Him", and "Truly, Truly True".

Altman studied violin and began his professional career as a violinist with the CBS Radio Orchestra. His first nationally known song was "Play Fiddle Play", which he wrote in the early 1930s for the orchestra leader Emory Deutsch.

Among the 400 songs he wrote, "All or Nothing at All" appears on more than 180 albums recorded by more than 150 artists including Count Basie, John Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughan.

He died of a heart ailment.