Jimmy McHugh

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James Francis McHugh (July 10 1894 - May 23 1969) was a U.S. song composer. One of the greatest and most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 279 songs.

[edit] Works

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 by Al Dubin)
1940 - Keep Off The Grass (lyrics by Dubin and Howard Dietz)
1948 - As The Girls Go (lyrics by Harold Adamson)

[edit] Sources

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre by Stanley Green. Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York 1976.
The Oxford Companion to Popular Music by Peter Gammond. Published by Oxford University Press 1991.