Joe Young (lyricist)

An early work is the song "Way Down East" (1910), with words by Cecil Mack, music by Young and Harold Norman, published by Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company. ==The Laugh Parade==

For the 1931 Broadway show The Laugh Parade, Young collaborated with co-lyricist Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on "You're My Everything". The show also included: • "Ooh! That Kiss" • "Love Me Forever" • "That Torch Song" ==Later work==

• "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" • "Lullaby of the Leaves" • "Snuggled On Your Shoulder, Cuddled In Your Arms" • "Was That the Human Thing To Do?" • "Something in the Night" • "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore" • "I'm Growing Fonder of You" • "You're a Heavenly Thing" • "Sing an Old Fashioned Song" • "Dancing with You" • "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)" • "Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away" Young's last work was the pop standard "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", written with Fred Ahlert in 1935. He died in New York in 1939 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. ==References==