Hy Zaret (born Hyman Harry Zaritsky; August 21, 1907 – July 2, 2007) was an American Tin Pan Alley[1] lyricist and composer who wrote the lyrics of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most-recorded songs of the 20th century.
[3] He scored his first major success in 1936, when he teamed up with Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn to co-write the pop standard "Dedicated to You."
The early 1940s brought some collaborations with Alex C. Kramer and Joan Whitney, including 1941's "It All Comes Back to Me Now" and the socially conscious, WWII-themed "My Sister and I."
Three versions of the song - by Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Roy Hamilton - hit the U.S. Top Ten that year.
[citation needed] Zaret turned his attention to educational children's music in the late 1950s, collaborating with Lou Singer on a six-album series called Ballads for the Age of Science; different volumes covered space, energy and motion, experiments, weather, and nature.