Jimmy McHugh

Jimmy McHugh (* July 10, 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts, † May 23, 1969 in Beverly Hills, California, real name James Francis McHugh ) was an American composer.

McHugh studied music in his hometown of Boston, was accompanist at the Boston Opera House and worked for the Irving Berlin Company. In 1917 he wrote his first song " Emaline ". In 1921 he went to New York City, took a job in the music publishing by Jack Mills and wrote songs for Broadway shows. He was recorded in 1924 with " When My Sugar walks down the Street" an early hit; the song came together with genes Austen and Jack Mills brother Irving. For him, he wrote in 1925 "Everything is Hotsy Totsy Now", after the Hotsy Totsy Boys named its Mills. His first big Broadway success was the revue Blackbirds of 1928, which featured Bill " Bojangles " Robinson song " Doin 'the New Low Down " and " Diga Diga Doo" successful recordings experienced by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Thus began McHughs collaboration with the songwriter Dorothy Fields. Until the 1950s, he wrote about 250 songs, some of which are classics of American song repertoires were. The lyrics to his songs written except Fields authors such as Harold Adamson, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser or. Among his most famous songs include "I Can not Give You Anything but Love," " I Could not Sleep a Wink Last Night" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street".