Talk:Fred Ebb

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"Ebb's lyrics express an acerbic, cynical wit, though his well-known lyrics for "New York, New York" do not possess those qualities" This is pure bias (it could be argued that New York is highly cynical lyric) so I'm chopping it out...

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Credit for the song "How Little We Know"
"How Little We Know" as attributed to Ebb wasn't actually co-written by Fred Ebb - its full title is "(How Little it Matters) How Little We Know" and was written by Philip Springer and Carolyn Leigh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.198.211 (talk) 05:57, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Early chronology
Due to Ebb being coy about his real age, he apparently said he graduated from NYU in 1955 (when he was actually 27 years old), and referred to the song "I Never Loved Him Anyhow" (published in 1955) as his first song. In doing so, Ebb ignored the dozens of songs he had co-written before then, going back to at least 1951, which is also when he worked on his first musical revue. The current chronology of Ebb's early career (before 1962) is therefore disorganized. It will be helpful to get the actual year of his graduation from NYU, and find whether he published any songs before 1951. — Walloon (talk) 06:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Same person?
Is this the same Fred Ebb who was very tangentially connected to solving the murder of Roseann Quinn? (Quinn was murdered by A; A then told B, who thought A was joking; when B realized that A had been telling the truth, B called Ebb for advice...)

If so, should we perhaps mention this in the article? DS (talk) 13:27, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

LGBT??
He's been put into a few LGBT categories, yet there is not one single word in the article proper about his private life, orientation, whatever. If it is known he was gay, citations to that effect must be provided and words to that effect must be inserted into the text of the article. Otherwise, get rid of all the LGBT categories. We don't deal in "open secrets" on Wikipedia. --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  21:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * LGBT categories now removed pending textual support. --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  21:36, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * So, now we have: Mr. Ebb is interred in a mausoleum with Edwin “Eddie” Aldridge (1929–1997) and Martin Cohen (1926–1995) on the banks of Sylvan Water at Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to the names and dates of each man, the phrase, “Together Forever” is also chiseled on the front of the mausoleum.


 * This sort of material just provokes more questions than it answers. What was the nature of Ebb's association with these men? Did they have a long-running threesome or something? --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  23:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)