[ Joseph McCarthy ]
b. Sept. 27, 1885, Somerville, Massachusetts, d. Dec 18, 1943 New York, NY, USA
Overview
Lyricist, Composer, Producer,and Performer, Joe McCarthy was actively writing lyrics for Broadway shows, and for Tin Pan Alley, from the 1910's through the 1930's.

The most famous Broadway musicals for which he wrote, were:
1919 Irene
1924 Kid Boots
1927 Rio Rita

His most famous lyrics include:
1913 "You Made Me Love You"
1918 "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", music by: Frederic Chopin. Adapted from: "Fantasie Impromptu in C ".
1919 "In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown"

The next selection is from Florenz Ziegfeld's 1927 smash Broadway hit show "Rio Rita"
  "Rio Rita", (607 kb) played by Nathaniel Shilkret and His Victor Orchestra. Recorded: 1927

   [ Walker "Bud" McCreery ], composer/author
b. May 17, 1921, Benton, IL, USA, d. Dec. 2006 Age: 85
Overview
After his education in the Public High schools, and music studies with private instructors, Bud went gone on to write songs for Julius Monk's night club reviews, including the 'Shoestring Revues' and also special material for such stars as Dorothy Shay (tag: "The Park Avenue Hillbilly". b. April 11, 1921, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, d. Oct. 22, 1978, Santa Monica, California, USA. heart attack), Kay Thompson (née: Kitty Fink, b. Nov.9, 1909, St. Louis, MO, USA, d. July 2, 1998, New York, NY, USA -while residing in Liza Minelli's home, -Kay's goddaughter), and Beatrice Lillie (b. May 29, 1894, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. d. Jan. 20, 1989, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, Age: 94)
(Photo sources: Dorothy Shay from an Arcade publicity card, Kay Thompson, source unknown -possible from film 'Funny Face', and Beatrice Lillie source unknown.)

Among his 'Show' works are:
'AN EVENING WITH BEATRICE LILLIE', opened in New York, October 2, 1952 at the Booth Theatre and saw 276 performances, - later toured the US and Canada for eleven months, then opened in London, November 24, 1954, at the Globe Theatre where it ran for 195 performances. The show then toured throughout Great Britain. The "Zither Song" had music by Bud McCreery and Beatrice Lillie
The 'SHOESTRING REVUE' opened New York, February 28, 1955, at the President Theatre running for 156 performances. "Mink, Mink, Mink" (w/music Bud McCreery), "Couldn't Be Happier (monologue by Bud McCreery), and "New to Me" (w/music by Ken Welch and Bud McCreery)
'THE LITTLEST REVUE' opened in New York, May 22, 1956, at the Phoenix Theatre and ran for 32 performances. The music and lyrics were mostly by Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash, but Bud contributed "The Power of Negative Thinking" (w/music Bud McCreery)
'SHOESTRING '57' opened in New York, November 5, 1957, at the Barbizon Plaza Theatre. It saw 110 performances with McCreey's songs: "The Style to Which I'm Accustomed', "Mink Mink Mink", "Guess Who Was There", "The Sitwells", "Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec" (w/music Bud McCreery), "Tranquilizers", "Steel Guitars and Barking Seals", "The Time Is Now", and "Requiem for Everybody."
'DEMI DOZEN' opened in New York, October 11, 1958, at the club. 'Upstairs at the Downstairs' and had his song "Guess Who Was There" (w/music Bud McCreery, introduced in 'SON OF FOUR BELOW').
'PIECES OF EIGHT' opened in New York, September 24, 1959 at the club 'Upstairs at the Downstairs', the show featured his "Gala Opening: Pieces of Eight" (w/music Bud McCreery), "The Appian Way" (w/music by Ronny Graham and Bud McCreery), "Election Spectacular" (w/music Bud McCreery), and "Steel Guitars and Barking Seals" (w/music Bud McCreery).
'FOUR BELOW STRIKES BACK' opened in New York, 1960.
'THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER' opened in New York, March 20, 1965, at the Square East Theatre, and saw 273 performances. Bud McCreery wrote the Grand Finale based on songs by Cole Porter.
'DIME A DOZEN' opened in New York, October 18, 1962. 'Plaza 9' saw 728 performances with his song "Requiem for Everyone" (w/music Bud McCreery).
These notes on Walker "Bud" McCreery were kindly supplied by lyricist/composer Reg Fulton.

   [ Jimmy McHugh ]
b. July 10, 1894, Boston, MA., d. May 23, 1969, Beverly Hills, CA, USA.
Here's a photograph of Jimmy McHugh, a prolific pop composer who had hit songs and Broadway scores from the 1920s into the 1950s. Born in Boston, MA, he first worked as an office boy at the Boston Opera House, and later as a rehearsal pianist, -eventually working for various New York music publishers as a song plugger. In 1916, he wrote his first hit "Carolina, I'm Coming Back to You" but didn't have another hit until 1924's "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street". Over his career, McHugh collaborated with a number of lyricists, including Johnny Mercer, Ted Koehler, Ned Washington, Harold Adamson, and Frank Loesser. But, without a doubt, his most important lyricist was the talented Dorothy Fields. That team successfully collaborated on now well recalled Cotton Club Shows, and on stage shows and movies from 1928 to 1935. The first of McHugh's numerous Broadway successes was Blackbirds of 1928. Among the huge hits that the team of Fields and McHugh wrote are "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1928), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930) and "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935). McHugh had his last hit with 1955s "Too Young to Go Steady."

Jimmy's mother taught him to play the piano. After graduating from Boston's Staley College, he helped out in his father's plumbing business, but soon, Jimmy got a job playing rehearsal piano at the Boston Opera House. A little later he was hired by the Boston branch office of the Irving Berlin Publishing company, as songplugger in theaters and five-and-ten cent stores.

Four years later, in 1921, he moved to New York City, and got a job with the Mills Music Publishing company. While with Mills, he wrote his very first song "Emaline". For the next nine years, he wrote many songs that were interpolated into the famous Harlem Cotton Club revues. It is said that Jimmy induced the Cotton Club to use the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and otherwise also helped the Duke.

Some of Jimmy's material in the Cotton Club floor shows became hits. In 1924, (he was 39 years old) a Cotton Club show had his first big hit "When My Sugar Walks down the Street", with lyric by Gene Austin and Irving Mills. Another of his Cotton Club hits was "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me". lyric by Clarence Gaskill.

In 1926, MGM bought one of his songs.

McHugh has had two productive musical partnerships: McHugh and Fields, and McHugh and Adamson. Both teams produced some very excellent music.

In 1927, Jimmy met the schoolteacher, Dorothy Fields. Dorothy's father was the famous vaudevillian, Lew Fields, of the Weber and Fields team. Her brother, Joseph, was a librettist for Sigmund Romberg, and later for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Her other brother, Herbert, wrote musical comedy texts, and worked with Rodgers and Hart. It turned out to be a fine writing team. Jimmy's and Dorothy's work was first played in the Cotton Club shows. In 1928, Fields and McHugh had their first important Broadway assignment writing the music for the all-negro revue 'Blackbirds of 1928', starring Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and Adelaide Hall. which included the hits "I Can't GIve You Anything But Love"; "I Must Have That Man", and "Digga Digga Doo". Also, in 1928, Fields and McHugh wrote song for the Broadway musical 'Hello Daddy' produced by and starring Dorothy's dad, Lew Fields.

In 1930, Fields and McHugh songs were heard in such Broadway shows as" 'The International Revue', starring Harry Richmond; Gertrude Lawrence. With songs:
       "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
       "Exactly Like You"
'Vanderbilt Revue', with songs
       "Blue Again"

Between 1929 and 1934, Fields and McHugh worked for the Warner Brothers. After that, Jimmy free-lanced for every major studio in Hollywood, working with many other composers and lyricists. Among Fields and McHugh's Hollywood work, is found:
for the film 'Cuban Love Song', with the title song hit:
       "Cuban Love Song"
for the film 'Singing the Blues"
       "Singing the Blues"
       "It's the Darndest Thing"
for the film 'Every Night At Eight'
       "I Feel A Song Coming On"
For the Broadway Show 'Clowns in Clover', they wrote
       "Don't Blame Me"
For the Broadway revue 'Palais Royale', they wrote
       "Lost in a Fog"
       "Thank You for a Lovely Evening"
For the Broadway Show 'Hooray for Love', they wrote
       "Hooray for Love"
       "You're an Angel"

In 1936, Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh started writing music together.

In 1937 McHugh and Fields both wrote and appeared in the first ever show at New York City's prestigious Radio City Music Hall theater.

Adamson and McHugh wrote a great many songs for the Deanna Durbin films and for other Hollywood pictures:
For the film 'You're a Sweetheart', the title song was
       "You're a Sweetheart"
For the film 'Hitting a New High', starring Lily Pons,
       "I Hit a New High"
For the film 'Higher and Higher', starring Frank Sinatra,
       "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"
       "This is a Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"
For the film 'Around the World', the song
       "Don't Believe Everything You Dream"
For the film 'Top of the Town', the song,
       "Where Are You?"
For the film 'Dimples', starring Shirley Temple,
       "Picture You Without Me"
For the film 'Something For the Boys', the songs,
       "I'm In the Middle of Nowhere"
       "I Wish We Didn't Have to Say Goodnight"
For the film 'Doll Face', star Perry Como's first film,
       "Dig You Later"
       "Here Comes Heaven Again"
For the film 'Nob Hill' had the song
       "I Walked in With My Eyes Wide Open"
For the film 'Smash Up', the song
       "Life Can Be Beautiful"
For the film 'If You Knew Susie', the Eddie Cantor film had
       "My How the Time Goes By"
For the film 'A Date With Judy', for Jane Powell, they wrote
       "It's A Most Unusual Day"

In 1943, McHugh and Adamson wrote the war song "Coming In On A Wing and A Prayer. And, for the Deanny Durbin film, 'Hers to Hold', they wrote the war song, "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There". President Truman gave them a Citation for these songs and for other war work (promoting bond sales).

From time to time, McHugh wrote with other lyricists, these included:
McHugh and Ted Koehler wrote, for film 'King of Burlesque',
       "Lovely Lady"
       "I'm Shooting High"

McHugh and Frank Loesser wrote, for film 'Happy Go Lucky' starring Mary Martin:
       "Let's Get Lost" 1939 McHugh and Al Dubin wrote for Broadway show 'Streets of Paris'
       "South American Way", sung by Carmen Miranda
1940 McHugh and Dubin wrote for Broadway show 'Keep Off The Grass'.
1948 McHugh and Adamson scored Broadway musical 'As the Girls Go'
1951 McHugh was one of some Hollywood personalities to give a command performance before the Queen Mother Elizabeth of England.
1952 McHugh was the subject of the TV Telecast 'This is Your Life'.

In the fifties McHugh organized the Jimmy McHugh Polio Foundation, later called Jimmy McHugh Charities.
1957 McHugh songs in film 'The Helen Morgan Story'
1958 McHugh songs in film 'Home Before Dark'.
1959 McHugh formed his own Jimmy McHugh Publishing Company.
1960 McHugh songs in film 'Let No Man Write My Epitaph'.

   [ Lindsey McPhail ]
While in Chicago, pianist and composer Lindsey McPhail married Addie Dukes (daughter of Van and Cordelia Dukes (of White Plains, KY, USA), and two years later they had a daughter, Marilyn. A little later they moved to Hollywood, where his wife Addie found success as an extra in several Silent films. She starred in The Newlyweds and Their Baby, and also acted in the Winnie Winkle film series. In the late 1920s, Addie landed a role in her first talking picture, The New Bankroll. Shortly thereafter the marriage foundered.

Side note on Addie: After her separation from Lindsey McPhail, Addie and actor Fatty Arbuckle became engaged and married, with Arbuckle directing several of her later films. She did mostly light comedy and Arbuckle, probably best known as one of the Keystone Cops, directed several of her later films. She went on to star in pictures for Twentieth Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists, appearing in such films as Body and Soul, Cosair, and a film called Girls Demand Excitement, that co-starred John Wayne. Arbuckle died in 1933 and shortly after Addie married again, to a non-showbusiness man, and retired from acting. They made their home in Canoga Park, CA. (Where Addie was still living in 1998).

In 1915, Lindsey, along with Egbert Van Alstyne, and Haven Gillespie composed "Some Little Bird".
In 1920, Lindsey and Walter Michels compsed their most famous tune, "San", The tune was first recorded on April 11, 1921 by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago. Lindsey McPhail recorded it as a piano solo in August, 1921. However, the best selling recording was by the Paul Whitman Orchestra (with Bix) which was recorded on January 12, 1928. Subsequently, a version with lyrics by Wes Coven and McPhail was copyrighted in 1941, and still a third version with lyrics by Don Wolfe, titled 'Feel Free To Call On Me' was copyrighted in 1952.
In 1923, Lindsey and Jack Nelson composed "Flag That Train" and "Foolish Child"
In 1924, Lindsey and Marie Tally composed "All Day Long"
In 1930 Lindsey composed "Piano Dan"
In 1938, Lindsey composed "Play Me A Lonesome Melody"

      [ Loonis Reeves McGlohon ]
b. 29 September 1921, Ayden, NC, USA, d. 25 January 2002, Charlotte, NC, USA.
After matriculaing from 'East Carolina University', McGlohon began his professional career working as a pianist. However, WWII intervened and, from 1942 to 1945, served in the U. S. Air Force (working as a pianist-arranger). In 1949, he worked briefly with the Jimmy Dorsey, Ray McKinley and Jack Teagarden orchestras.

In 1950, he began working in radio and television as a producer and presenter, while also continuing to play and to compose music. He led his own trio not only for local club and concert engagements, but also toured across the USA, including three appearances at New York's famed Carnegie Hall. In addition, the group toured to Japan, China, Singapore, France, Italy and the UK. Between 1964-'66, he accompanied such stars as Judy Garland, and Helen O'Connell. Between 1978-'80, he worked as musical director for the legendary vocalist Mabel Mercer, and then for Eileen Farrell during 1981-'96.

For several years, McGlohon was the Program Director for Radio Station WBT, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also had a regular radio show on 'National Public Radio', and is perhaps best remembered as a co-host with songwriter Alec Wilder, on a series based on the latter's book, 'The American Popular Song', Each show featured guests such as Marlene VerPlanck, Johnny Hartman, Barbara Lea, Carrie Smith, Anita Ellis, Johnny Mercer, Hugh Shannon, Teddi King, and Thelma Carpenter. (A subsequent series, titled 'American Popular Singers', was hosted by vocalist Eileen Farrell.)

McGlohon's work can be heard on many recordings. For years he was virtually the house pianist for Audiophile Records. Among the many songsters whom he accompanied on their recordings were Maxine Sullivan, Margaret Whiting, Daryle Ryce, Dick Haymes, "Dardanelle" (daughter of Rick and Tracy Deeds), David Allyn, Joyce Breach, and many many more. He accompanied Marlene VerPlanck, and on her album notes, Marlene wrote of McGlohon: "beautiful chords, beautiful technique, and lovely soulful playing." (The album had a set of Wilder songs.) McGlohon also recorded with famed leader Robert Farnon, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a composer, McGlohon's writing is indeed impressive, with compositions that include musicals and revues, operas, a children's cantata, "A Child's Christmas", which was recorded and released in 1974, and numerous songs. His songwriting collaborators have included Billy VerPlanck, Hugh Martin and that wonderful pianist Marian McPartland. Collaborating with Alec Wilder, he co-composed a number of tunes including:
"Blackberry Winter", recorded by such singers as Mark Murphy, Mike Campbell, Teddi King, Vic Juris and Marlene VerPlanck;
"A Long Night" and "South To A Warmer Place", which were recorded by Frank Sinatra; and
"Songbird", recorded bu over 30 artists including Jackie Cain, Robert Farnon, Marlene VerPlanck, George Shearing, Eileen Farrell and Wesla Whitfield.

Over his career, McGlohon received many accolades and awards, including four doctorates, nomination to the National Academy of Television, and to the Science Hall of Fame, and a 1998 tribute at New York's Lincoln Center, where many of the artists who had played with him and sung his songs appeared. He is the founder of a number of scholarships, as well as a music school. There is even a theatre that now bears his name.