Jimmy Kennedy

James Kennedy OBE was an Irish songwriter. He was predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer" or co-writing with composers such as Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he wrote some 2000 songs, of which over 200 became worldwide hits and about 50 are popular music classics. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_K...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)