Ray Henderson

ABOUT RAY HENDERSON

Composer of Bye Bye Blackbird, Button Up Your Overcoat, and Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries. He was popular on Tin Pan Alley.

He attended the Chicago Conservatory.

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

He married Florence Hoffman.

He worked with Ted Koehler on the musical Say When from 1934.