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Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (né Isadore Minsky; 16 January 1894 – 21 April 1985) was a jazz music publisher and musician, also known as Joe Primrose. He died in 1985 in Palm Springs, California.
Early life
Mills was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Although at least one biography reflects that he was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His father, Hyman Minsky, was a hat maker and came from Odessa with his wife Sofia. His father died in 1905, forcing Irving and his brother to work odd jobs including bussing at restaurants, selling wallpaper, and working in the garment industry. By 1910, he was listed as a telephone operator.
He married his wife in 1913 and they relocated to Philadelphia. By 1918 he was working for publisher Leo Feist and his brother Jacob (1891–1979) was working as a manager for McCarthy and Fisher, a music publishing firm named for the lyricist Joseph McCarthy (1883–1943) and songwriter Fred Fisher (1875–1942).
In July 1919 the brothers, Irving and Jack, founded Jack Mills Music which would be renamed Mills Music in 1928.
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Irving Mills
ALBUMS
- The Untouchables released: 2012
- L'Histoire Du Jazz Vocal - The Story of Vocal Jazz: 1911 - 1940 released: 2004
- It Don't Mean a Thing released: 2003
- America's Musical Landscape, Fourth Edition released: 2002
- Hollywood Bowl Orchestra & John Mauceri: Greatest Hits released: 2001
- The Great Ella Fitzgerald [Goldies] released: 1999
- The Mexican Concert released: 1994
- Jazz-Blues-Soul 1953-54 released: 1993
- The Addams Family released: 1991
- Hot Summer, Cool Jazz released:
- Moonstruck released:
- Harlem Song (2002 original Apollo Theater cast) released:
- Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977 original London cast) released:
The Untouchables
Released 2012- The Untouchables (end title)
- Al Capone
- Waiting at the Border
- Death Theme
- On the Rooftops
- Victorious
- The Man With the Matches
- The Strength of the Righteous (main title)
- Ness and His Family
- False Alarm
- The Untouchables
- Four Friends
- Machine Gun Lullaby
- Mood Indigo
- Al Capone - Part II (version 1)
- Machine Gun Lullaby - Part 1 (no celeste)
- On the Rooftops (no saxophone)
- Here Endeth the Lesson (alternate)
- Love Theme From the Untouchables
L'Histoire Du Jazz Vocal - The Story of Vocal Jazz: 1911 - 1940
Released 2004- Some of These Days [1911]
- Roll Jordan Roll [1913]
- After You've Gone [1918]
- Crazy Blues [1920]
- Down Hearted Blues [1923]
- I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street [1923]
- Graveyard Dream Blues [1923]
- West Indies Blues [1923]
- Blues Ain't Nothin' Else But! [1924]
- Boweavil Blues [1924]
- Weeping Willow Blues [1924]
- Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis' Mornin' [1924]
- Black Snake Moan [1925]
- Cake Walking Babies From Home [1925]
- Sweet Georgia Brown [1925]
- Soft Pedal Blues [1925]
- Careless Love [1925]
- Shake That Thing [1925]
- Too Tight Blues [1926]
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [1926]
- Fascinating Rhythm [1926]
- Death's Black Train Is Comin' [1926]
- Young Woman Blues [1926]
- Pratt City Blues [1926]
- Mean Old Bedbug Blues [1927]
It Don't Mean a Thing
Released 2003- Rockin' In Rhythm
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
- Tonight I Shall Sleep
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- Misty Morning
- Jump For Joy
- East St.Louis Toodle-Oo
- Ring Dem Bells
- The Mood to be Wooed
- Perdido
- Black and Tan Fantasy
- Solitude
- Main Stem
- Chelsea Bridge
- Three Little Words
- Jack the Bear
- Transblucency
- Cotton Club Stomp (Wall Street Wail)
- Mood Indigo
- Drop Me Off in Harlem
- The Mooche
- Moonglow
America's Musical Landscape, Fourth Edition
Released 2002- Tu le ton son ton
- New San Anonio Rose
- Hellhound on My Trail
- Lost Your Head Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Hotter Than That
- Shout For Joy
- Carolina Soul
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Taxi War Dance
- Mood Indigo
- Ko Ko
- Concerto for Cootie
- Take Five
- 92 + (30, 32, 139) + (108c, 108d) for Creative Orchestra
- Ojos
- Desafinado
- El Cutilio
- School Day
- Stop! In the Name of Love
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Shine on, Harvest Moon
- The Student Prince: Drinking Song
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra & John Mauceri: Greatest Hits
Released 2001- Let Yourself Go / Steppin' Out With My Baby
- Slap That Bass
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Mood Indigo
- A Foggy Day
- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
- Heatwave
- Something Wonderful
- O Mio Babbino Caro
- Prelude to a Kiss
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- The All Laughed
- I've Got Beginner's Luck
- Doin' What Comes Natur-Lly
- I Have Dreamed
- For You, for Me, for Evermore
The Great Ella Fitzgerald [Goldies]
Released 1999- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
- The Muffin Man
- Takin' a Chance on Love
- T'Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)
- Wacky Dust
- Three Little Words
- Louisville, K-Y
- Five O'Clock Whistle
- Shake Down the Stars
- Imagination
- The Starlit Hour
- Love in the Thing, So They Say
- The Dipsu Doodle
- Big Boy Blue
- It's My Turn Now
- I Was Doing All Right
- Cryin' Mood
Moonstruck
- That's Amore
- Canzone per Loretta / Addio, Mulberry Street
- Mr. Moon
- It Must Be Him
- Old Man Mazurka
- Lament for Johnny's Mama
- Che gelida manina
- Donde lieta uscì
- Canzone per Loretta
- O soave fanciulla
- Musetta's Waltz
- Musetta's Entrance
- Instrumental Excerpts from La bohème
- Gettin' Ready
- Brooklyn Heights Stroll
- Beautiful Signorina
- Moonglow
- Canzone per Loretta / Gioventù mia, tu non sei morta
Harlem Song (2002 original Apollo Theater cast)
- Here Comes My Daddy Now
- Late One Night
- Well Alright Then
- Drop Me Off in Harlem
- Tarzan of Harlem
- Shakin' the African (intro)
- Shakin' the African
- For Sale (intro)
- For Sale
- Drop Me Off in Harlem (reprise)
- Doin' the Niggerati Rag
- Take the "A" Train
- Depression Chant
- Hungry Blues
- Miss Linda Brown
- Here You Come With Love
- King Joe
- A Fable of Rage in the Key of Jive
- Uptown Jazzmen
- A Dream Deferred (intro)
- A Dream Deferred
- Shake
- Tree of Life
- One Word
Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977 original London cast)
- Overture
- Harlem '70 / Lillian Lopez - Bubbling Brown Sugar
- What Harlem Is to Me
- Doin' The New Low Down
- Harlem Sweet Harlem
- Nobody
- Some of These Days
- Strolling
- I'm Gonna Tell God All My Troubles
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow / Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Sophisticated Lady
- St. Louis Blues / Eubie Blake - In Honeysuckle Time, When Emaline Said She'd Be Mine
Born: 1894-01-16
Died: 1985-04-21
