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Born Salvatore Anthony Guaragna in Brooklyn, New York , he is regarded as one of America's most prolific but least known composers. He married Josephine Wensler in 1917. They had a son, also named Harry (who died of pneumonia in 1939 aged 19), and a daughter, Joan. Warren composed music with Ira Gershwin , Johnny Mercer , Billy Rose , and Al Dubin . His '' Chattanooga Choo Choo '' was the first Gold Record . Among his hits are "I Only Have Eyes for You," "42nd Street," "Chattanooga Choo-Choo," "Serenade in Blue," "Jeepers Creepers," and "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me." Three of his songs, "Lullabye of Broadway," "You'll Never Know," and "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," won Academy Awards for Warren. Harry Warren is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles . The plaque bearing Harry Warren's epitaph displays the first few notes of "You'll Never Know (Just How Much I Love You)," one of the many well-loved hits by this Brooklyn-born songwriter. SONGS Music by Warren, unless noted. =Warren won three Academy Awards for Best Song:
=He wrote the following songs for the stage:
=He wrote the following #1 songs:
=He wrote the following songs for the movies:
=He wrote many other songs which have entered the American songbook:
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