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Jimmy McHugh
McHugh in 1921
Background information
Nativity name	James Francis McHugh
Built-in	(1894-07-10)July 10, 1894 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 23, 1969(1969-05-23) (aged 74) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Songwriter

Musical artist

James Francis McHugh (July 10, 1894 – May 23, 1969)^[1] was an American composer. One of the near prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. His songs were recorded by many artists, including Chet Baker, June Christy, Bing Crosby, Deanna Durbin, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Adelaide Hall, Billie Holiday, Beverly Kenney, Bill Kenny, Peggy Lee, Carmen Miranda, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, and Dinah Washington.

Career [edit]

McHugh began his career in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.,^[1] where he published about a dozen songs with local publishers. His first success was with the World War I song "Keep the Love-Light Burning in the Window Till the Boys Come Marching Home", and this also came virtually the start of a decade-long collaboration with lyricist Jack Caddigan. Afterwards struggling in a diversity of jobs, including rehearsal pianist for the Boston Opera Firm and pianist-song plugger for Irving Berlin's publishing company.^[i] In 1921, at the historic period of 26, McHugh relocated to New York Urban center.^[2] Eventually finding employment every bit a professional person manager with the music publisher Jack Mills Inc., it was there that McHugh published his first real hit, "Emaline", and briefly teamed upwardly with Irving Mills as The Hotsy Totsy Boys to write the hit song "Everything Is Hotsy Totsy Now".

This songwriting partnership marked another of McHugh's many collaborations, among them Ted Koehler ("I'm Shooting High"), Al Dubin ("Southward American Way") and Harold Adamson ("It'south a Most Unusual Day"). As impressive equally these main lyricists were, perhaps McHugh'south all-time symbiotic musical relationship was with the school instructor and poet Dorothy Fields. Since he had written material for many of Harlem'south Cotton Club revues, information technology would be no coincidence that their outset combined success would be the score for the all-blackness Broadway musical, Blackbirds of 1928,^[1] starring Adelaide Hall and Neb Bojangles Robinson, which leap-started the fledgling duo's career with the songs "I Tin can't Give You Anything Just Dear", "Diga Diga Doo", and "I Must Have That Human".^{[iii] [4]}

Other hits written for the phase were shortly to follow, including 1930'due south "On the Sunny Side of the Street" for Lew Leslie'south International Revue, which also independent the favorite "Exactly Like You";^[one] "Bluish Once again" for The Vanderbilt Revue; and in 1932, "Don't Blame Me", which was featured in the Chicago revue Clowns In Clover.^[ane]

McHugh and Fields contributed title songs for films including "Cuban Honey Song", "Dinner at 8" and "Hooray for Honey", besides as "I Feel a Vocal Comin' On" and "I'thou in the Mood for Beloved" from 1935's Every Night at Eight.^[1] In the artistically fruitful years later they first collaborated in 1930, McHugh and Fields wrote over xxx songs for the film globe.^[1] Fields and McHugh finally parted company in 1935.^[v] McHugh'due south longest songwriting partner was Harold Adamson. Adamson provided lyrics to McHugh's compositions. Such hits as "Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer" found its way into Bartlett'southward Familiar Quotations.^[i]

For the 1948 film A Date with Judy, he composed "It'southward a Nigh Unusual Day" for Jane Powell. It became the immature vocalist and actress'southward signature tune.

McHugh died in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 74.^[6]

Awards and honors [edit]

Jimmy McHugh was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.^[7]

Works [edit]

Broadway credits

• 1928 – Blackbirds of 1928 (lyrics by Dorothy Fields)
• 1928 – Hello, Daddy (lyrics by Fields)
• 1930 – International Revue (lyrics by Fields)
• 1939 – The Streets of Paris (lyrics past Al Dubin)
• 1940 – Go on Off The Grass (lyrics by Dubin and Howard Dietz)
• 1948 – As the Girls Go (lyrics by Harold Adamson)

A medley of his songs were included in the 1979 Broadway show Sugar Babies, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney. The songs included were "I Tin can't Give You Anything but Beloved", "I'm Shooting Loftier", "Curlicue Your Blues Away" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street".

Popular songs

• "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" – June Christy (McHugh/Adamson) (Capitol/EMI)
• "Blue Again" – Louis Armstrong (McHugh/Fields) (Okeh/Sony BMG)
• "Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer" – Bing Crosby (McHugh/Adamson) (Decca/UMG)
• "Cuban Love Song" – Edmundo Ros (McHugh/Stothart/Fields) (London/WMG)
• "Diga Diga Doo" – The Mills Brothers w/ Knuckles Ellington (McHugh/Fields) (Brunswick/Sony BMG)
• "Doin' the New Low Down" – Pecker "Bojangles" Robinson (McHugh/Fields) (Brunswick/Sony BMG)
• "Don't Blame Me" – The Everly Brothers (McHugh/Fields) (Warner Bros./WMG)
• "Dream Dream Dream" – Joni James (McHugh/Parish/Melle/Mottier) (MGM/UMG)
• "Exactly Similar Y'all" – Aretha Franklin (McHugh/Fields) (Columbia/Sony BMG)
• "Farewell Dejection" - The Mills Brothers(McHugh/Fields) (Brunswick/Sony BMG)
• "Happy Times" – Hal Kemp & His Orchestra (McHugh/Fields) (Brunswick/Sony BMG)
• "I Tin can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" – Dean Martin (McHugh/Gaskill) (Capitol/EMI)
• "I Tin can't Give You Anything merely Love" – Judy Garland (McHugh/Fields) (Capitol/EMI)
• "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" – Frank Sinatra (McHugh/Adamson) (Columbia/Sony BMG)
• "I Just Found Out About Love" – Dinah Washington (McHugh/Adamson) (Mercury/UMG)
• "I Love to Whistle" – Fats Waller (McHugh/Adamson) (RCA/Sony BMG)
• "I'chiliad in the Mood for Love" – Frances Langford (McHugh/Fields) (Regal Zonophone)
• "I Must Take That Man" – Billie Vacation (McHugh/Fields) (Brunswick/Sony BMG)
• "I'm Shooting High" – Ann Richards (McHugh/Koehler) (Capitol/EMI)
• "It'due south a Well-nigh Unusual Day" – Andy Williams (McHugh/Adamson) (Columbia/Sony BMG)
• "I've Got My Fingers Crossed" – Louis Armstrong (McHugh/Koehler) (Decca/UMG)
• "Let'southward Get Lost" – Chet Bakery (McHugh/Loesser) (Pacific)
• "On the Sunny Side of the Street" – Frank Sinatra (McHugh/Fields) (Capitol/EMI)
• "Say It (Over and Over Over again)" - (McHugh/Loesser)
• "South American Fashion" – The Andrews Sisters (McHugh/Dubin) (Capitol/EMI)
• "Accept it Easy" - Fats Waller [1935]
• "In that location'south Something in the Air" – Ruth Etting (McHugh/Adamson) (Decca/UNI)
• "As well Young to Go Steady" – Nat King Cole (McHugh/Adamson) (Capitol/EMI)
• "Warm and Willing" – Nat King Cole (McHugh/Livingston/Evans) (Capitol/EMI)
• "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" – Peggy Lee (McHugh/Austin/Mills) (Capitol/EMI)
• "Where Are You?" – Johnny Mathis (McHugh/Adamson) (Columbia/Sony BMG)

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f m h i} Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Kickoff ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 1570/1. ISBN0-85112-939-0.
2. ^ Forte, Allen (1995). The American Popular Carol of the Golden Era, 1924-1950. Princeton University Press. p. 251. ISBN978-0691043999.
3. ^ Williams, Iain Cameron (2003). Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN978-0826458933.
4. ^ Steinblatt, Jim (July 15, 2005). "Fields of Gold". American Lodge of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
5. ^ Spitz, Julia (November 14, 2009). "Jimmy McHugh's Musical Legacy". The MetroWest Daily News.
6. ^ Gammond, Peter (1991). The Oxford Companion to Popular Music . Oxford University Press. p. 262. ISBN978-0193113237.
7. ^ "Jimmy McHugh Biography". Songwriters Hall of Fame . Retrieved May half dozen, 2018.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Jimmy McHugh at the Cyberspace Broadway Database
• Jimmy McHugh at IMDb
• Jimmy McHugh at the TCM Movie Database
• Jimmy McHugh at AllMovie
• Jimmy McHugh at Detect a Grave
• Jimmy McHugh recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

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