Kim Gannon
Songwriter ("I'll Be Home For Christmas"
"Under Paris Skies", "A Dreamer's
Holiday" "Autumn Nocturne"), author
and lawyer, educated at St. Lawrence
University (BS) and Albany Law School
(LL.B.). He was admitted to the New
York Bar in 1934. Besides writing for
films, he wrote the Broadway stage score
for "Seventeen". Joining ASCAP in 1940
his chief musical collaborators included
J. Fred Coots, Max Steiner, Mabel
Wayne", Walter Kent, and Josef Myrow.
His other popular-song compositions
include "Five O'Clock Whistle", "I
Understand", "Always In My Heart",
"Moonlight Cocktail", "It Can't Be
Wrong", "I Want to Be Wanted" and
"Johnny Appleseed".
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was born in Austria. Growing up with a rich heritage of opera and symphony all about him.
Already a composer at 14 and conductor at 16, Steiner moved from Austria to England in 1905, to conduct at His
Majesty's Theatre until 1914. With the outbreak of the war, Steiner emigrated to America.
He composed the music for the silent film The Bondman (1915).
In 1929, he went to RKO Radio Studios to orchestrate the film "Rio Rita", and scores for the films "Symphony of
Six Million", "The Informer", and "King Kong".
After 111 pictures at RKO, he was hired by David O. Selznick, to write the score for "Gone with the Wind"
Around that time Steiner began working at Warner Bros, where he penned the studio's famous "opening logo"
fanfare and also provided evocative scores for such classics as "Now Voyager", "Casablanca" and "Mildred Pierce".
Steiner remained active until 1965, contributing scores to "The Caine Mutiny", "The Searchers", "A Summer Place" and
many others.
It Can't Be Wrong
Words & music by:-
Kim Gannon & Max Steiner
Wrong, would it be wrong to kiss
Seeing I feel like this
Would it be wrong to try?
Wrong, would it be wrong to stay
Here in your arms this way
Under this starry sky?
If it is wrong
Then why were you sent to me
Why am I content to be
With you forever?
So, when I need you so much
And I have waited so long
It must be right
It can't be wrong