Arthur Altman

{{Short description|American songwriter (1910–1994)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}}{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Arthur Altman

| birth_date = 1910

| birth_place = Brooklyn, U.S.

| death_date = January 18, 1994

| death_place = Lake Worth, Florida, U.S.

| occupation = Songwriter

| instrument = Violin

}}

Arthur Altman (1910 – January 18, 1994) was an American songwriter whose credits include "All or Nothing at All", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence, and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I", "I Will Follow Him", and "Truly, Truly True".{{cite news |title=Arthur Altman, 83; Was Hit Songwriter (Published 1994) |work=The New York Times |date=January 22, 1994 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411161811/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/22/obituaries/arthur-altman-83-was-hit-songwriter.html |archive-date=2023-04-11 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/22/obituaries/arthur-altman-83-was-hit-songwriter.html}}

Altman studied violin and began his professional career as a violinist with the CBS Radio Orchestra. His first nationally known song was "Play Fiddle Play", which he wrote in the early 1930s for the orchestra leader Emory Deutsch.

Among the 400 songs he wrote, "All or Nothing at All" appears on more than 180 albums recorded by more than 150 artists including Count Basie, John Coltrane, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, and Sarah Vaughan.{{cite web|title=All or Nothing at All|url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/all/All+or+Nothing+at+All|publisher=AllMusic.com|accessdate=November 10, 2012}}

He died of a heart ailment.