Song Spotting: The Strip

THE STRIP: Mickey Rooney’s Mid-Century Musical Melodrama

We hope you’ll get a chance to catch Mickey Rooney in The Strip.

(MGM,1951). It features a very young Vic Damone performing the Jimmy McHugh gem, ‘Don’t Blame Me’.

This black & white potboiler features Mickey as a young drummer returning from service in the Korean War. While restarting his musical career he gets a gig in a Sunset Strip club, meets the love of his life and falls in with a very bad-news gambling syndicate.

The kicker is his supporting cast of musicians, which include Louis Armstrong, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines and the illustrious jazz trombonist, Bix Beiderbecke.

IMDB: The Strip

A Blue Note: Farewell James Moody

All of us at Jimmy McHugh Music are sad at the passing of jazz saxophonist, James Moody. He will always be remembered for his improvisation on “I’m In The Mood For Love,” which became “Moody’s Mood For Love” and has been recorded by everyone from Aretha Franklin to Amy Winehouse.


Recently James Moody paired with another great friend to Jimmy McHugh Music, Terence Blanchard. Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary All-Stars tour of the United States, Europe and Asia with Jazz greats Terence Blanchard, Nnenna Freelon, Benny Green.

In 2001 Terence recorded his Jimmy McHugh Grammy nominated Album "Lets Get Lost" with Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall.

James Moody will be dearly missed by all of us.

Remembering James Moody

'Moody's Mood For Love' James Mood

George Benson: Moody's Mood

Song Spotting

Be sure to catch Stormy Weather, a 1943 gem starring Lena Horne, who turns in bravura performances of Jimmy’s ‘I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby’ & ‘Diga Diga Doo’

And talk about a supporting cast: Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson & the tap dancing Nicholas Brothers.

A True DVR Delight!

See Lena & Bill Robinson perform ‘I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby’: youtube.com

Stormy Weather  http://www.flixster.com/movie/stormy-weather

Rod Stewart at Caesars Palace

After a sold out performance at Caesars Palace the backstage celebrating kicked into high gear.


During his show Rod told the packed house ‘If it weren't for Great American Songbook Composers (Like JIMMY MCHUGH, whose classic 'On The Sunny Side Of The Street' is on Vol.5) there would be no Rock and Roll!’

Pictured with Rod, left to right:

Vocalist Christena Rich; ‘Vol. 5’ producer Lauren Wild (with wife, Lindsay); Lee Newman, Managing Director, Jimmy McHugh Music

http://www.caesarspalace.com/