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| young, joe | |
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Joe Young, b 4 July 1889 in New York d 21 April 1939 New York was a Lyricist . Young was most active from 1911 through the late 1930's, beginning his career working as a singer-songplugger for various music publishers. During World War I , he entertained the U.S. Troops, touring Europe as a singer. Young wrote his first major hit, ''"Don't Blame it all on Broadway"'', in 1914 . Starting in 1916, he and co-lyricist Sam M. Lewis worked as a team up until 1930. In 1916, he wrote "Yaaka Hula, Hickey Dula" and "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday on Saturday Night?", both being sung by Al Jolson . For the next 14 years, the team wrote such lyrics as "My Mammy", "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody", "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?", "Dinah", "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue", "I'm Sitting on Top af the World", "King For a Day", "In a Little Spanish Town", "Then You've Never Been Blue", "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" and "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame". Walter Donaldson and Ray Henderson were among the composers who collaborated with the pair. In 1930, Young and Lewis collaborated with composer Harry Warren on an early talking motion picture ' Spring Is Here '. It was one of the Young and Lewis team's last projects together, and included such songs as "Crying For the Carolines", "Have a Little Faith in Me", "Bad Baby" and "How Shall I Tell?". The last Young and Lewis lyric was "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder". Seemingly it didn't for from 1930 on Joe mostly wrote lyrics by himself, among them the Bing Crosby song "You're Beautiful Tonight, My Dear". For the 1931 Broadway show 'The Laugh Parade', Young collaborated with co-lyricst Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on his most enduring hit "You're My Everything", the show also including "Ooh! That Kiss", "Love Me Forever" and "That Torch Song". His later efforts included "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town", "Lullaby of the Leaves", "Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms", "Was That the Human Thing To Do?", "Something In The Night", "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "I'm Growing Fonder of You", "You're A Heavenly Thing", "Sing an Old Fashioned Song" and "Dancing With You", finishing up with the famous Fats Waller Standard "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", written with Fred Ahlert in 1935. Joe Young was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1970 . EXTERNAL LINK Joe Young's entry at the Songwriters' Hall of Fame |
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