Harold Orlob

Harold Orlob (June 3, 1883 – June 25, 1982) was an American composer, lyricist, director, and film producer. He is best known for writing the melody to the song "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" (1909), a work for which he was long uncredited until he successfully sued for co-authorship credit in 1947. He wrote the scores to many Broadway musicals in the 1910s and 1920s, the most successful of which was the musical Listen Lester, a hit of the 1918–1919 Broadway season. A native of Utah, Orlob published his first songs while a teenager in Salt Lake City, where he was active as a musician in local professional orchestras in his youth. He studied engineering at the University of Utah (UU) but was simultaneously active in music at the university, taking lessons with music professor John J. McClellan. His first musical, The Prince and the Peasant, was staged at the Salt Lake Theatre in 1902. After graduating from UU in 1903, he studied music with Alberto Jonás at the Michigan Conservatory of Music in Detroit. He moved to New York City in 1905 to work as a songwriter in Tin Pan Alley and on Broadway for the Shubert Brothers, initially composing songs which were interpolated into productions principally crafted by others. In addition to writing scores for the New York stage, he also wrote the scores to several musicals produced in Chicago or that toured. He briefly worked in Hollywood as a producer for Paramount Pictures, and also operated a recording studio during his career. He died in Salt Lake City in 1982 at the age of 99.

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