I feel a song coming on
Subtitle: the life of Jimmy McHugh
By: Alyn Shipton.
Series: Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034657
Subjects: McHugh, Jimmy, -- 1894-1969; Composers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Home before dark' : a Boston childhood; title: 'When my sugar walks down the street' : arriving in New York; title: 'Everything is hotsy totsy now' : a sequence of hit songs; title: 'I can't give you anything but love (baby)' : meeting Dorothy Fields; title: 'Livin' in a great big way' : Fields and McHugh on Broadway and in Hollywood; title: 'Goodbye blues' : the split from Dorothy Fields; title: 'Dimples' : a sequence of child stars; title: 'My kind of country' movies, romance, and World War Two; title: 'A lovely way to spend an evening' : the great years in Beverly Hills; title: 'Reach for tomorrow' : final years in Los Angeles, and a growing legacy.