Harry Tierney

b. Harry Austin Tierney, 21 Might 1890, Perth Amboy, NJ, USA, d. 22 March 1965, NY, USA. A favorite composer for the Broadway musical stage through the 20s, Tierney designed to research traditional music, and went to the Virgil College of Music in NY. After touring the united states along with other countries like a concert pianist, he worked well for quite a while at the popular Remick’s publishing home in NY, and began to create popular tracks. From 1916-18, he previously several tracks interpolated into Broadway displays, like the Passing Display Of 1916 (‘Therefore THAT IS Paris’); Hitchy-Koo (‘M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I’, popular for Ann Wheaton and Ada Jones); Everything (‘On Atlantic Seaside’ and ‘Honky Tonk City’); The Canary (‘Jazz Marimba’ and ‘Oh, Doctor’); SUCH A LONG TIME Letty and Follow Me. Along with his main collaborator Joseph McCarthy, Tierney added ‘My Baby’s Hands’ towards the Ziegfeld Follies Of 1919, that is generally kept to become the best release from the series. Within the same yr, Tierney and McCarthy had written the tracks for Irene, the time of year’s biggest strike, which starred Edith Day time, and presented musical numbers such as for example ‘Alice Blue Dress’, ‘Chat Of The City’ and ‘Castle Of Dreams’. It continued to become among America’s most cherished musicals, and was filmed in 1940, starring Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, and effectively revived in the Minskoff Theater in 1973 with Debbie Reynolds as Irene. In 1920, Tierney and McCarthy added many songs towards the Western rating of Charles Cuvillier’s Afagar when it had been staged on Broadway, starring the toast of London and Paris, Alice Delysia. After adding to the revue The Broadway Whirl (‘All Women Are JUST LIKE A Rainbow’ and ‘Oh, Dearie’); Up She Moves (‘Allow’s Kiss And Make Up’, ‘Trip’s End’ and ‘Woman Luck, Smile On Me’) as well as the unsatisfactory Glory, the group wrote the rating for Florenz Ziegfeld’s 1923 strike, Kid Footwear, with songs such as for example ‘Somebody Loves You’, ‘After All’ and ‘If Your Heart’s WITHIN THE Video game’. In 1924, Tierney teamed with Sigmund Romberg to ‘doctor’ Clare Kummer’s rating to some other Ziegfeld display, Annie Dear, and he also had written ‘Adoring You’ for the impresario’s Follies of this yr. Three years later on, he was back again with McCarthy for Rio Rita, among the highlights from the theatrical yr, which was the very first present to become staged at ‘the finest musical playhouse ever built in America’, the Ziegfeld Theater. Tierney’s sturdy and romantic rating included ‘The Rangers’ Melody’, ‘If You’re In Like, You’ll Waltz’, ‘You’re Generally In My Hands’, ‘Pursuing SUNLIGHT Around’, ‘The Kinkajou’ and the primary duet, ‘Rio Rita’, sung with the present’s superstars, Ethelind Terry and J. Harold Murray. It went for pretty much 500 shows and was filmed in 1929, starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles and Wheeler and Wolsey, and once again in 1942, with Abbott And Costello, Kathryn Grayson and John Carroll. Tierney and McCarthy’s last Broadway present was Combination My Center in 1928, which went for just eight weeks. From then on, Tierney proved helpful in Hollywood through the 30s on movies such as for example Dixiana, which created the title melody (with Benny Davis), ‘Right here’s TOWARDS THE Old Times’, ‘A Rip, A Kiss, A Smile’, ‘My One Ambition Is normally You’, and ‘A Female Loved A Soldier’ (with Anne Caldwell); and Fifty percent Shot At Sunrise (the Bert Wheeler/Robert Woolsey humor). Further tries by Tierney to create another Broadway present had been unsuccessful, and his profession dropped in what, ironically, was a fantastic era of well-known song.