Joe Young (lyricist)
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Joe Young (July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939)<ref name="LarkinGE">Template:Cite book</ref> was an American lyricist, born in New York City as Joseph Judewitz to immigrant Jewish parents.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> In 1911, he began his career as a singer and song-plugger for various music publishers.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> During World War I, he entertained U.S. troops and sang across Europe.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
Early work
An early work is the song "Way Down East" (1910), with words by Cecil Mack, music by Young and Harold Norman, published by Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company.Template:Cn
The Laugh Parade
For the 1931 Broadway show The Laugh Parade, Young collaborated with co-lyricist Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on "You're My Everything".<ref name="LarkinGE"/> The show also included:
- "Ooh! That Kiss"<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
- "Love Me Forever"<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
- "That Torch Song"<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
Later work
- "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town"
- "Lullaby of the Leaves"
- "Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms"
- "Was 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"
- "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)"
- "Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away"<ref name="LarkinGE"/>
Young's last work was the pop standard "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", written with Fred Ahlert in 1935.<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He died in New York in 1939<ref name="LarkinGE"/> and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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