Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
Joseph "Joe" McCarthy ( born September 27, 1885 in Somerville (Massachusetts ), † December 18, 1943 in New York City ) was an American songwriter.
Life and work
Joseph McCarthy began his career as a singer in cabarets, before he started to write lyrics. His first hit was in 1913 " You Made Me Love You ," which he had written with James V. Monaco. The song was successful by Al Jolson and Grace La Rue, interpreted in later years, inter alia, by Harry James, Judy Garland. Three years later published the songwriting team McCarthy / Monaco " Why Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? " ( The song that was first recorded in 1917 by Ada Jones and Billy Murray on Victor, was in the 1959 version of Emile Ford & the Checkmates a number -one hit in the UK). McCarthy then worked for Broadway shows: In 1918, he wrote with Harry Carroll the songs for the musical revue Oh, look, and the song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows ", Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Stan Getz, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Gloria Lynne, Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra made the standard. Along with Harry Tierney he had more success with the musical Irene (1919 ), the song Alice Blue Gown, the Broadway singer Alice went to number - one hit and the later musicians such as Chet Atkins, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, the original Dixieland Jazz Band, Red Nichols, Muggsy Spanier and Teddy Wilson was interpreted. The name and the "blue " of the title were a reference to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of the future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
McCarthy / Tierney wrote for the Ziegfeld Follies and also shows like The Broadway Whirl, Up She Goes, Glory and 1923 for Florence Ziegfeld's Kid Boots ( with Eddie Cantor ). 1927 had both with the operetta Rio Rita on Broadway success; came from the songs The Rangers ' Song, You're Always in My Arms, Following the Sun Around, The Kikajou and If You're in Love, You'll Waltz. Tierney and McCarthy's collaboration ended in 1928 with the little successful musical Cross My Heart. McCarthy had more success with the songs "Ireland Must Be Heaven for My Mother Came from There" (1916, with Fred Fisher), " I'm in the Market for You" (1930, with James F. Hanley ) and "Ten Pins in the Sky "(with Milton Ager ), the Judy Garland sang in the 1938 film lists Darling.
His son, the lyricist Joseph McCarthy Jr. worked with composer Cy Coleman ( " Why Try to Change Me Now" ).