Ray Gilbert

From the 1940s through the 1960s, lyricist Ray Gilbert wrote songs made famous by pop vocalists and Disney features, and translated many of Antonio Carlos Jobim's songs into English. Some of the many Jobim songs Gilbert translated include "Dindi," "Amor em Paz" ("Once I Loved"), "Samba Torto" ("Pardon My English"), "Por Causa de Você" ("Don't Ever Go Away"), "Esperança Perdida" ("I Was Just One More for You"), and "Inútil Paisagem" ("Useless Landscape"). In addition to Jobim's songs, Gilbert also translated songwriter Osvaldo Farres and "Mexico's Cole Porter," Agustín Lara. Be...