James Kimball "Kim" Gannon (November 18, 1900 – April 29, 1974)[1] was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer.
Gannon was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish-American family from Fort Ann in upstate New York, but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of Omega Gamma Delta fraternity.
He graduated from St. Lawrence University and, intending to become a lawyer, attended the Albany Law School, passing the bar examination in New York State in 1934.
In 1951 he turned to the Broadway stage, joining with composer Walter Kent to write the score for Seventeen.
[3] Gannon collaborated with a number of writers, including, J. Fred Coots, Walter Kent, Josef Myrow, Max Steiner, Jule Styne, Mabel Wayne, and Luckey Roberts.