Allie Wrubel

A songwriter, born Elias Paul Wrubel to a Jewish family in Middletown, Connecticut, who left a Wesleyan and Columbia education to play saxophone in Greenwich Village bands before moving to Hollywood in 1934. Under contract first at Warner Bros. and later Disney, he wrote "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" for Song of the South with lyricist Ray Gilbert, winning the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song; he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.