Joe Young (Lyrics)

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Joe Young , (born July 4, 1889 in New York City , † April 21, 1939 ) was an American songwriter .

Young's most active period was between 1911 and the late 1930s, when he worked for a variety of music producers. During the First World War he sang for the American troops in Europe. Between 1916 and 1930 he wrote a number of song texts with Sam M. Lewis , such as Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (1918), How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (1919), Tuck Me to Sleep (in My Old 'Tucky Home) (1922), I'm Sitting on Top of the World (1925) or the Dinah jazz standard (1925, music by Harry Akst ). In 1970 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame .

The Laugh Parade

For the 1931 Broadway show The Laugh Parade , Young worked with fellow copywriter Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on his longest- running success, You're My Everything . The performance also included:

  • Ooh! That kiss
  • Love Me Forever
  • That Torch Song
  • Joseph Young III

Later work

  • In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
  • Lullaby of the Leaves
  • Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms
  • What That the Human Thing To Do?
  • Something In The Night
  • Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • I'm Growing Fonder of You
  • You're A Heavenly Thing
  • Sing an old fashioned song
  • Dancing With You

His last work was the well-known Fats Waller standard I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter , which he wrote with Fred Ahlert in 1935 .

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