Biography
Harvey Schmidt was born in Dallas in 1929, the son of a Methodist minister, and met the lyricist Tom Jones as a student in Austin in the late 1940s. The two kept in touch by mail during their military service in the Korean War and later worked together on songs in New York, which grew into the 1960 musical The Fantasticks. Over the following decades Schmidt and Jones wrote further Broadway musicals including 110 in the Shade (1963) and I Do! I Do! (1966); Schmidt composed exclusively with Jones throughout his career. He retired to Tomball, Texas, in 1997 and died there in 2018.
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