Dean Kay Pictures

Hank and Dean with Nick Adams and Dean Jones...	...and with Connie Stevens

In addition to the Frank Sinatra classic, That's Life has been recorded some of the greatest artists of all time

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Sheet music editions of Dean's song, That's Life.
(To read the lyric, click here.)

___________________________		Dean 2 Dean Publisher Dean presents Songwriter Dean with a platinum album (you remember those) awardfor David Lee Roth's triple platinum album Eat 'em and Smile which featured "That's Life".(1988)

Post Millennium

2010 Andy Williams' BARNABY MUSIC CORP joins our music publishing family (Andy Williams: December 3, 1927-September 25, 2012) Rest in peace, my friend.

Return to Yesteryear

6'3" and 6' 5" espectively, Dean and Stanley Ralph Ross, billed themselves as Dean Kay and Mr. Ross "The Biggest Act In Show Business" (1965)	Jammin' with Olympic decathlon silver and gold medal champion Rafer Johnson (1967)

As then music publisher of the entire creative output
of legendary composer Jerome Kern, in 1985 Dean
orchestrated the charge through Congress that resulted
in the issuance of a postage stamp commemorating the
100th anniversary of Kern's birth


Washington, D.C.

Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), Todd Brabec, EVP Membership Group ASCAP, Johnny Mandel, Composer-Arranger, Leeds Levy, President Leeds Music, Jay Morgenstern, EVP/GM Warner Chappell Music Inc., Paul Williams, Songwriter, President of ASCAP, Bruce Broughton, Composer, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D - MI), Alan Bergman, Lyricist, Roger Faxon, Joint CEO EMI Music Publishing, Dean, Kathy Spanberger, Prt/COO Anglo-American Region - peermusic.


Dean, Senator Patrick Leahy, lyricist Hal David		Senator Orrin Hatch, Dean's Wife, Michelle, Dean


Michelle Kay with Senator Ted Kennedy		With Vice President Al Gore


	Michelle with James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress and his wife Marjorie (2009) [Interesting note: Other than the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Librarian of Congress is the only lifetime appointment in the Federal Government]

Dean Kay's testimony on behalf of ASCAP before the
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(Click House Seal Above)

Dean at an ASCAP Board meeting after makng a motion that ASCAP invade Peru.
(ASCAP Boardroom, NYC.)


With Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber In London (1985)		With Michelle and Dudley Moore (1985)



With songwriter Tom Snow and Sergio Mendez (1985)		With Cy Coleman, George Michael and Johnny Mandel (1998)

With the legendary Harry Belafonte

The Playboy Mansion was fun, even though the girls kept cramping Dean's style. Michelle, was off hustling Hef.

Lyricist John Bucchino, Emma Walton Hamilton (Julie Andrews daughter), Julie Andrews,
ASCAP's Randy Grimmett, composer and conductor Ian Fraser, Dean, ASCAP's Nancy Knutsen

With The Masters
Many of the world's most renowned composers and authors gathered at
ASCAP's first West Coast Writer's Advisory Committee meeting (circa 1969)
Back Row: Joe Greene, Marcia Waldorf, Nachio Herb Brown, Jr., Harry Sukman, George Duning, Bert Shefter,
Fred Karlin, Danny Shapiro, Herb Magidson, Luchi DeJesus, Sammy Cahn, Ray Evans, Jerry Livingston, Vic Mizzy,
Arthur Hamilton, Jay Livingston, Al Kasha, Sammy Lerner, Tommy Wolf
Center Row (Seated): Unidentified, John Cacavas, Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain, Harry Warren
Front Row: Dean Kay, Doug Goodwin, Don Wolf, Gene DePaul, Stu Phillips

Benny Carter's Induction Into ASCAP's Jazz Wall of Fame

(l-r) John McKellen, Johnny Mandel, Mrs. Benny Carter (Hilma), Benny, Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Dean.Posthumously inducted: Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich and Art Tatum.

Milt Hinton and Artie Shaw Inducted into ASCAP's Jazz Wall of Fame
Back row (left to right): Alan and Marilyn Bergman, bassist Ron Carter, ASCAP Board MemberJohnny Mandel, Dean, clarinetist Ken Peplowski; Front row: Inductee Milt Hinton and wife Mona. Ron Carter performed in honor of Milt Hinton and Peplowski in honor of Artie Shaw.