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Name
  
Joseph McCarthy

Role
  
Lyricist

Died
  
December 18, 1943


Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)

Plays
  
John Murray Anderson's Almanac

Music director
  
Rio Rita, Up the River, New Movietone Follies of, Irene

Similar People
  
Edith Day, Otto Harbach, Cy Coleman, Guy Bolton, Jerry Ross

Joseph McCarthy (September 27, 1885 – December 18, 1943) was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include "You Made Me Love You", and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", from the now-forgotten Oh, Look! (1918), starring the Dolly Sisters, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu.

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McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator of composers Harry Tierney (1890–1965) and Fred Fisher (1875–1942). He was the director of ASCAP from 1921 to 1929.

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Music score

  • 1918 Oh, Look!
  • 1919 Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
  • 1919 Irene
  • 1920 Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
  • 1921 The Broadway Whirl
  • 1922 Up She Goes
  • 1922 Glory
  • 1923 Ziegfeld Follies of 1923
  • 1923 Kid Boots
  • 1924 Ziegfeld Follies of 1924
  • 1926 Irene (1926 film)
  • 1927 Rio Rita
  • 1928 Cross My Heart
  • 1929 Rio Rita (1929 film)
  • 1930 New Movietone Follies of 1930
  • 1931 Ziegfeld Follies of 1931
  • 1942 Rio Rita (1942 film)

    • Songwriter

  • 1914 "There's a Little Spark of Love Still Burning" (with Fred Fisher)
  • 1917 "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" (with Fred Fisher)
  • 1918 "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (from the musical Oh Look!)
  • 1919 "Alice Blue Gown" (waltz from Irene) (with Harry Tierney)
  • 1930 "So This Is London"
  • 1930 "Under Suspicion"
  • 1930 "Up the River"
  • 1945 "Incendiary Blonde"

    • References

    Joseph McCarthy (lyricist) Wikipedia
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