Obituaries : Lyricist John Trevor (Jack) Scholl, 85; Early Collaborator With Eubie Blake

John Trevor (Jack) Scholl, an early collaborator with Eubie Blake and others who wrote lyrics for such songs as “Loving You the Way I Do” and “Making Love, Mountain Style,” has died at a convalescent home in San Luis Obispo.

He was 85 and died March 25 but his death went unnoticed until the Associated Press reported it Tuesday. He had been in the convalescent home for several months.

Scholl, also a scriptwriter, often collaborated with Blake and M. K. Jerome, said David Petrone of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Scholl teamed with Blake for the first time when he was only 15, writing the lyric for “Loving You the Way I Do.”

He had met Blake through his father, a Broadway entrepreneur who produced “Shuffle Along,” featuring Blake’s “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” said Scholl’s daughter, Lisette Scholl Phillips of Templeton, Calif.

Some of Scholl’s other compositions include, “Throw Another Log on the Fire,” “The Gay Parisienne” with Sigmund Romberg, “The Wish That I Wish Tonight,” “The Glad Song,” “The Old Apple Tree,” “You, You Darling” and “My Little Buckaroo.”

Scholl spent 10 years as a staff songwriter for Warner Bros. and 10 years with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his daughter said.