Composer Anita Leonard was a student of Otto Cesana, Wallingford Rieger, Modena Lane, Bruno Eisner and Herman Wasserman. She was educated at New York University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree, and wrote a number of variety shows and the scores to four ballets. She was the staff composer for two seasons of summer stock, and joined ASCAP in 1948. Her popular-song compositions include "A Sunday Kind of Love", "The Bee Song", "William Didn't Tell" and "Chitterlinswitch", and the children's songs "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Amazing Adventures of Johnny".