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Joseph McCarthy
Vintage sheet music for "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"
music by Harry Carroll
words by Joseph McCarthy
from the show Oh Look
1918
Basic Information
Born: September 27, 1885, Somerville, Massachussetts (US)
Died: December 18, 1943 (age 58) New York City
Father of songwriter Joseph McCarthy Jr. (aka Joseph Allen McCarthy) -- no connection to the Seantor from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy
Primary songwriting role: lyricist; also author and charter member / director of ASCAP (not to be confused with the senator from Wisconsin)
Co-writers: xxx. For songs written with these co-writers and others, view the DBOPM database.
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Joseph McCarthy (This section is currently in preparation)
Debbie Reynolds sings "You Made Me Love You" as she did in the 1973 Broadway revival of Irene.
Introduced by Tom Bosley
"In 1971, the revival of the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette with screen legend Ruby Keeler proved to be an enormous hit. Its producer, Harry Rigby, deciding to cash in on the nostalgia craze by reviving another vintage show with another glamorous movie star as its centerpiece, zeroed in on Irene with Debbie Reynolds making her Broadway debut in the title role. Rigby hired librettist Hugh Wheeler to rework the show, which retained only five of the original songs and added tunes written by McCarthy with other composers and original numbers by Charles Gaynor and Otis Clements, with additional material by Wally Harper and Jack Lloyd, written specifically for the revival" (fromdougster2810 at YouTube).
"You Made Me Love You" words by Joseph McCarthy, music by James V. Monaco (1913) was
interpolatedinto the 1973 revival of Irene, which originally opened on Broadway in 1919.
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