James F. Hanley

Ideal remembered for “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” Wayne F. Hanley was an archetypal Tin Skillet Alley professional who made up numerous tracks for stage and film, mainly through the early ’20s. Hanley was created Feb 17, 1892, in Renselaer, IN, and that could inform his 1st main strike, 1917’s “(BACK Once again In) Indiana”; created with lyricist Ballard MacDonald, “Indiana” was partly a tribute to Paul Dresser’s sentimental, then-recent strike “Within the Banks from the Wabash.” Hanley and MacDonald teamed up for another significant achievement, 1920’s “The Rose of Washington Rectangular,” which became Fanny Brice’s personal music; Brice also popularized a follow-up, “USED Rose.” Hanley consequently caused lyricist Joe Goodwin, which created tracks like “Gee, but I Hate to GO BACK HOME Only” and “Only a Considered You.” Hanley got little achievement after 1925, conserve for one main strike in 1935 with “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” that Hanley had written the lyrics along with the music; a Judy Garland documented the music and flipped it right into a regular. Hanley passed on in Douglaston, NY, in 1942.