Bud Green

Lyricist Bud Green was born in Austria on November 19, 1897; raised primarily in the U.S., he scored his first major hit in 1924 with "Alabamy Bound," a collaboration with B.G. DeSylva and Ray Henderson. In 1928, Green began a hugely successful partnership with composer Sam Stept, inaugurated with Helen Kane's hit "That's My Weakness Now." Writing primarily for Hollywood in the years to follow, the duo generated an impressive series of popular favorites, including "Love Is a Dreamer," "The Wearing of the Green," "When They Sang," "The World Is Yours and Mine," "There's a Tear ...