Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 18, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz promoter. He often used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
July 1919, IrvingMills (vice-president), his brother, Jack (president), and Samuel Jesse Buzzell (secretary and counselor), founded Jack Mills, Inc., which...
Rose, 1920) Azalea (Duke Ellington, 1963) Azure (Duke Ellington and IrvingMills, 1937) Azure-Te (Paris Blues) (Wild Bill Davis and Donald E. Wolf, 1952)...
made an agreement with agent-publisher IrvingMills, giving Mills a 45% interest in Ellington's future. Mills had an eye for new talent and published...
Blues" is a Tin Pan Alley song, composed by Cliff Friend, with lyrics by IrvingMills. It first appeared in the 1922 musical "Oh, Ernest", and was recorded...
specific list of songs. The Great American Songbook includes standards by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny...
operated as the Coconut Grove Orchestra. IrvingMills became its manager in 1931 and it subsequently assumed the name Mills Blue Rhythm Band. Compere Jimmy Ferguson...
the same year. Lyrics were written by Manny Kurtz; Ellington's manager IrvingMills gave himself a percentage of the publishing,[citation needed] so the...
lyrics for the Ellington composition were written by IrvingMills. The same year, a rendition by the Mills Brothers rose to the charts. The song's title introduced...
he took a job with the music publishing firm headed by talent agent IrvingMills, at first writing only lyrics, but subsequently writing music as well...
Montmartre 1959 Cole Porter Mood Indigo 1955 Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, IrvingMills Moody River 1968 Gary Bruce The Moon Got in My Eyes 1965 Johnny Burke...
the Bennie Moten orchestra; and Jack Cornell, who did recordings with IrvingMills. Later jazz accordionists from the United States include Steve Bach,...
composed or cowritten by Ellington, some with his longtime collaborators IrvingMills and Billy Strayhorn. Besides singing and playing piano on the album,...
Furber – Arranged by Dick Hyman It Don't Mean a Thing (1931) – Lyrics by IrvingMills – Written by Duke Ellington Out of Nowhere (1931) – Lyrics by Edward...
York, Carmichael met Duke Ellington's agent and sheet music publisher, IrvingMills, and hired him to set up recording dates. Carmichael's first major song...
and Kim Novak. The 1933 piece, "Moonglow", was written by Will Hudson, IrvingMills and Eddie DeLange. The 1955 piece, "Theme from Picnic", was written by...
Beautiful Signorina Dick Hyman Moonglow Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, IrvingMills Canzone Per Loretta Dominic Cortese (accordion) Dick Hyman Gioventù mia...
"Straighten Up and Fly Right" is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and IrvingMills and one of the first vocal hits for the King Cole Trio. It was the trio's...
of "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" as did Fletcher Henderson and The Mills Brothers, followed in 1937 by Benny Goodman with an instrumental version...
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