Joseph McCarthy
b. 27 September 1885, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, d. 18 December 1943, New York, USA. McCarthy sang in cafes and worked for music publishers before writing songs such as That Dreamy Italian Waltz, That's How I Need You and I Miss You Most Of All. In 1913, with Jimmy Monaco, he produced one of popular music's all-time standards, You Made Me Love You, memorably sung and recorded by hundreds of artists, including Al Jolson, Harry James, Judy Garland and Grace La Rue. Three years later, again with Monaco, and Howard Johnson, McCarthy wrote What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?, which Betty Hutton sang in the 1945 movie INCENDIARY BLONDE, the bio-pic of nightclub queen Texas Guinan. The song resurfaced in the UK in 1959, as a number 1 for Emile FordAnd The Checkmates, and again in 1987, when it was a hit for rock ‘n’ roll revivalist, Shakin’ Stevens. 
McCarthy collaborated largely with Harry Tierney contributing to THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1919. In the same year, Tierney and McCarthy wrote the songs for the hugely successful IRENE, which was later filmed in 1940, starring Anna Neagle and Ray Milland, and was successfully revived at the Minskoff Theatre in 1973, with Debbie Reynolds as Irene. In 1920, Tierney and McCarthy added several songs to the European score of Charles Cuvillier's AFAGAR when it was staged on Broadway, starring the toast of London and Paris, Alice Delysia. After contributing to the revues—THE BROADWAY WHIRL, UP SHE GOES and GLORY- the team wrote the score for Ziegfeld's 1923 hit, KID BOOTS. After a brief break, McCarthy was back with Tierney in 1927 for the double event of the theatrical year. The show was the operetta, RIO RITA, the season's biggest musical hit. The score included The Rangers Song’, If You're In Love, You'll Waltz, You're Always In My Arms, Following The Sun Around, The Kinkajou and the main duet, Rio Rita, sung by the show's stars, Ethelind Terry and J. Harold Murray. It ran for nearly 500 performances and was twice filmed: in 1929 and again in 1942. Tierney and McCarthy's last Broadway show together was CROSS MY HEART in 1928, which ran for only eight weeks. 
McCarthy's 1918 song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, written with composer Harry Carroll, was successful then for Charles Harrison, Harry Fox and Sam Ash, and was popular again in the '40s, after Judy Garland sang it so well in MGM's ZIEGFELD GIRL in 1941—at the time McCarthy was winding up his career. His other songs included They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me (a hit for Marion Harris), Through, Ireland Must Be Heaven For My Mother Came From There, Night Time In Italy’, I'm In The Market For You, Underneath The Arches and Ten Pins In The Sky (from the Judy Garland film, LISTEN DARLING). In 1940, he wrote the songs for BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE water carnival, including You Think Of Everything and When The Spirit Moves Me. McCarthy died three years later in 1943.