Earl Shuman

American songwriter born August 2, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts and died February 13, 2019 in New York, New York. Brother of [a=Alden Shuman]. Collaborated with .
He charted 37 times between 1953 and 1990 in the U.S. and U.K. "Hey There Lonely Girl" by Eddie Holman (co-written by Leon Carr) in 1969. "Hotel Happiness" by Brook Benton (also co-written by Carr) hit #3 in the U.S. in 1962. "Starry Eyed" by Michael Holliday hit #1 in the U.K. in 1960 (co-written by Mort Garson). His other top 5 single in the U.S. was "Seven Lonely Days" by Georgia Gibbs (co-written by his brother Alden and Marshall Brown). And his other top 3 in the U.K. was " Theme for a Dream" by [a=Cliff Richard] in 1961 (co-written with Garson).
He also charted an additional time with a song sampled with "It Kills Me" by Melanie Fiona in 2009 in the U.S. The song spent nine weeks as #1 on the R&B chart and #43 overall (co-written by Andrea Martin, Robert Littlejohn Jr. & Leon Carr). The song samples "(Hey There) Lonely Girl" by [a=The Softones] (originally just written by Carr & Shulman).
In 1967, and Shulman established their joint publishing (), establishing it with Chappell & Co. inc.