Leon Carr

Leon Carr (June 10, 1910 – March 27, 1976) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor. He developed several famed marketing jingles used in advertisements, including “Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut…” for Mounds candy, “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” for Chevrolet, and the “Bert the Turtle” theme song for the 1952 nuclear public education awareness film Duck and Cover. Early life and education Carr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1910. Carr was educated at Pennsylvania State University. He also studied the Schillinger System at New York University in New York City. Career Carr moved to New York City in 1935. His marketing jingles are among the best known in the history of broadcast advertising. His biggest non-jingle hit was “There’s No Tomorrow”, a parody of “O Sole Mio”, which was popularized by Tony Martin in the film Two Tickets to Broadway; it spent 27 weeks on the Billboard charts in 1949, peaking at #2. Carr’s other popular song compositions include “Bell Bottom Blues”, “Hotel Happiness”, “Herthquake”, “Hey There Lonely Girl”, “Your Socks Don’t Match”, “A Man Could Be a Wonderful Thing”, “Goblins in the Steeple”, “Big Name Button”