Me Along. Latouche was a protégé of James Branch Cabell and friends with writers Gore Vidal and Jack Woodford. Latouche dated Louella Woodford when they were both teenagers. He also was friends of the architect William Alexander Levy (who designed and built Hangover House for travel writer Richard Halliburton), and writer Paul Mooney, who assisted Halliburton in several of his classic travel works. Latouche died of a sudden heart attack at his home in Calais, Vermont, aged 41. Legacy The New York Theatre Company produced Taking a Chance on Love - The Lyrics and Life of John LaTouche, A New Musical Revue ("The Bad Boy of Broadway Is Back") in 2000, with notes by Ned Rorem (recorded by Original Cast Records). The John LaTouche Archive, containing journals, family letters, scrapbooks of photographs and newspaper articles, is housed at Columbia University. Out in the World - Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 1935-1970, edited by Millicent Dillon (Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985), contains a number of references to LaTouche, and his circle of friends and acquaintances. Chapter 28 of The Autobiography of Jack Woodford (Doubleday, Garden City, 1962) is devoted to La Touche. Notable songs "Backer's Audition" with John Strauss and Kenward Elmslie "The Best of All Possible Worlds" with Leonard Bernstein "Brown Penny" with Duke Ellington "Day Dream" with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn "I Didn't Do A Thing Last Night" with Madame Spivy "I Love Town" with Peter van Eyck (as Goetz Eyck) "I've Got Me" with Duke Ellington "Lazy Afternoon" with Jerome Moross "My Love" with Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur "A Nail in the Horseshoe" with John Strauss "Not a Care in the World" with Vernon Duke "On the Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks" with Duke Ellington "Ragtime Romeo" with James Mundy "Summer Is A-Comin' In" with Vernon Duke "Surrealist" with Madame Spivy "Taking a Chance on Love" with Vernon Duke "Wind Flowers" with Jerome Moross "You Were Dead, You Know" with Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur Works Walpurgis Eve (1928 play) Flair-Flair, the Idol of Paree (1935 musical) Ballad for Americans (1939 cantata) Cabin in the Sky (1940 musical) Banjo Eyes (1941 musical) The Lady Comes Across (1942 musical) Rhapsody (1944 operetta) Polonaise (1945 musical) Beggar's Holiday (1946 musical) The Golden Apple (1954 musical) The Vamp (1955 musical) The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956 opera) Candide (1956 operetta, additional lyrics) References External links Photo and