Vincent Youmans (September 27, 1898 - April 5, 1946) was an American popular composer and Broadway producer. September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ...

He was born in New York, New York and was a runner for a Wall Street brokerage firm. He was drafted to fight in World War I. He took an interest in the theatre when he produced troop shows for the Navy. After the war he was a Tin Pan Alley song plugger and a rehearsal pianist, and collaborated with lyricist Ira Gershwin on the score for Two Little Girls in Blue, which won wide acclaim. His next show, with lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, was Wildflower. His most enduring success, was No, No, Nanette, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and... Tin Pan Alley was the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States of America in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. ... George (left) and Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershowitz) (December 6, 1896 - August 17, 1983) American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin He is interred in the Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. ... (For work done with Richard Rodgers, see Rodgers and Hammerstein) Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American born Jewish writer and producer of musical comedies for almost forty years. ... No, No, Nanette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Irving Caesar (born July 4, 1895 in New York, died December 18, 1996 in New York) originally known as Isidor Caesar, was a prominent American lyricist who wrote lyrics for Swanee, Sometimes Im Happy, Crazy Rhythm, and Tea for Two, one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. ...

After Oh Please, Hit the Deck, Rainbow and Take a Chance, his career faded, in part due to heavy drinking. Hit the Deck is a musical theater production first staged at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on April 25, 1927. ...

Youmans was painfully aware that many of his fellow songwriters ended up impoverished, and he was determined to avoid that fate. He spent a substantial amount of his songwriting royalties on life insurance policies, intending to collect on the insurance if his songwriting talents ever failed. Eventually, when Youmans decided to retire and collect his insurance, he learned that the insurance companies would not pay off unless Youmans was physically incapable of earning a living: as long as his songs were performed or published, Youmans would not be deemed incapacitated. Consequently, in the mid-1930s, Youmans ceased to work professionally. He continued to write songs but did not submit them for performance, choosing to accumulate them as unpublished manuscripts.

In his last years, after collecting most of his insurance money, Youmans longed for the limelight again. An attempted comeback with a ballet revue in 1943 was a commercial and artistic failure.

The two hit songs from No, No, Nanette, "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy" are considered standards.

He died of tuberculosis in Denver, Colorado. At his death, Youmans left behind a large quantity of unpublished material; this appears to be the reason for the popular perception that most composers have a "trunk" of unpublished material. Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... Denver skyline, 1999. ...

Broadway musicals with music by Vincent Youmans

• Two Little Girls in Blue - 1921
• Wildflower - 1923
• Mary Jane McKane - 1923
• Lollipop - 1924
• No, No, Nanette - 1925, revived 1971
• Oh Please - 1926
• Hit the Deck - 1927
• Great Day - 1929
• Smiles - 1930
• Through the Years - 1932
• Take a Chance - 1932 (additional songs only)

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Movies with music by Vincent Youmans

• No, No, Nanette - 1930
• Hit the Deck - 1930
• Song of the West - 1930
• What a Widow! - 1930
• Flying Down to Rio - 1933
• No, No, Nanette - 1940
• So You Want to Be in Pictures - 1947
• Tea for Two - 1950
• Hit the Deck - 1955