McCarthy, Joseph
(1885–1943)> LYRICIST
Joseph McCarthy Lyricist Somerville, Massachusetts, September 27, 1885; New York City, December 18, 1943. McCarthy was a cabaret singer in New York when he began writing lyrics in the early 1910s. His first major his was 1913’s “You Made Me Love You,” with music by Jimmy Monaco; the pair scored again in 1916 with “What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?,” revived in 1945 by Betty Grable in the film Incendiary Blonde, a biopic of nightclub chanteuse Texas Guinan. Working with Harry…