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Jan 28, 1906 Died on 25 May 1983 (aged 77)
American songwriter
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About Churchill Kohlman
- Churchill Kohlman (January 28, 1906 – May 25, 1983) was an African-American songwriter who wrote Johnnie Ray's 1951 hit, "Cry" while working in a Pittsburgh dry cleaning factory as the night watchman.Royalties from "Cry" were the subject of a bitter legal dispute between Kohlman and Perry Alexander, owner of music publisher Mellow Music.
- Alexander was ordered by arbitrators to pay Kohlman $15,331.24 to settle the dispute in 1953.Kohlman wrote hundreds of other songs, but none achieved the success of "Cry". Churchill had the following siblings: Homer Kohlman (1907–1985); and Alyse Kohlman Klaytor.
- After his success with "Cry", he was a correspondent for Prevue, a Chicago-based show-business magazine.
- He married Viola (1915–1995) and had the following children: Phyllis Kohlman O'Leary and Eleanor Kohlman Smith; and Carl Kohlman.
- He died under the name Charles Kohlman of a heart attack in 1983, at 77 years old, in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
- His grave is at Homewood Cemetery in Point Breeze.
