- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
- 1 The World of Her Father
- 2 The World of Her Family
- 3 The Teen Years
- 4 Marriage and the Start of a Career
- 5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over?
- 6 Give My Refrains to Broadway
- 7 Hello to Hollywood
- 8 Change Partners and Write
- 9 The Best of Hollywood
- 10 End of an Era
- 11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- 12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics
- 13 Up in Central Park
- 14 Annie Get Your Gun
- 15 More Movies
- 16 Colonial America and Brooklyn
- 17 Something Old, Something New
- 18 Sweet Charity
- 19 “It’s Where You Finish …”
- Appendix 1 List of Songs
- Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies
- Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index
Change Partners and Write
Change Partners and Write
- Chapter:
- (p.84) 8 Change Partners and Write
- Source:
- Pick Yourself Up
- Author(s):
Charlotte Greenspan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on the end of the partnership between Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh and her collaborations with other composers. By 1936, despite their many songwriting successes, Fields and McHugh had ceased to be a team. After an eight-year partnership, they never wrote another song together. If there was acrimony in their breakup, McHugh was too much of a gentlemen and Fields too much of a lady to discuss these matters publicly.
Keywords: Dorothy Fields, women songwriters, collaborations, Jimmy McHugh
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
- 1 The World of Her Father
- 2 The World of Her Family
- 3 The Teen Years
- 4 Marriage and the Start of a Career
- 5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over?
- 6 Give My Refrains to Broadway
- 7 Hello to Hollywood
- 8 Change Partners and Write
- 9 The Best of Hollywood
- 10 End of an Era
- 11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- 12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics
- 13 Up in Central Park
- 14 Annie Get Your Gun
- 15 More Movies
- 16 Colonial America and Brooklyn
- 17 Something Old, Something New
- 18 Sweet Charity
- 19 “It’s Where You Finish …”
- Appendix 1 List of Songs
- Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies
- Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index