Kay Swift (contributor)
Katharine Faulkner “Kay” Swift was an American composer of popular and classical
music. She trained as a classical musician at the Institute of Musical Art,
studying piano and composition under prominent teachers including Bertha Tapper,
Charles Martin Loeffler, and Percy Goetschius. Her early breakthrough came with
the song “Can’t We Be Friends?” (1929), and she achieved major success in 1930
with the Broadway musical Fine and Dandy, making her the first woman to score a
hit Broadway musical entirely on her own. Swift collaborated closely with George
Gershwin, who encouraged her...
