Ted Snyder

Theodore Frank Snyder (August 15, 1881 in Freeport, Illinois – July 16, 1965 in Woodland Hills, California), was an American composer, lyricist, and music publisher.

He learned to play the piano as a boy and as a young man returned to Illinois to work in Chicago as a pianist in a café before being employed by a music publishing company.

Snyder would become widely known to a later generation through hits such as 1921's "The Sheik of Araby" recorded by several artists including Duke Ellington (in 1932[3]), Benny Goodman (in 1937), and The Beatles (in 1962, Decca Audition).

As of 2007[update], his compositions have been used in about twenty-two motion pictures[1] from 1926's The Sheik of Araby, to the 1946's Marx Brothers' A Night in Casablanca, to 1979's All That Jazz, to 2002's The Good Girl.

Ted Snyder died in 1965 in Woodland Hills[4] and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.