Vincent Youmans Composer Vincent Miller (Millie) Youmans, New York City, September 27, 1898; Denver, Colorado, April 5, 1946. Youmans worked with Ira Gershwin as lyricist on the first Broadway show for each of them. Just as George Gershwin, who was only one day older than Youmans, was the first to experiment with Blues and jazz ideas in Broadway music, so Youmans took the temper of the times and expressed himself just as individually. There is no mistaking much of Youmans’s or Gershwin’s music…