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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252034657

The Life of Jimmy McHugh

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By Alyn Shipton
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Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations 1 ''Home Before Dark'' A Boston Childhood 2 ''When My Sugar Walks Down The Street'' Arriving in New York 3 ''Everything Is Hotsy Totsy Now'' A sequence of hit songs 4 ''I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)'' Meeting Dorothy Fields 5: ''Livin' In A Great Big Way'' Fields and McHugh on Broadway and in Hollywood 6: ''Goodbye Blues'' The Split from Dorothy Fields 7 ''Dimples'' A sequence of child stars 8 ''My Kind of Country'' Movies, Romance and World War Two 9 ''A Lovely Way to Spend An Evening'' The great years in Beverly Hills 10 ''Reach For Tomorrow'' Final years in Los Angeles, and a growing legacy Notes and abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

''A treasure trove of material on Jimmy McHugh, this book is a well documented portrait of a songwriter very much at the center of the music business, Broadway theater, and Hollywood.'' Philip Furia, coauthor of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists

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