Comedian composer actor singer and songwriter Inka Dinka Doo Jimmy Durante was educated in New York public schools He began his career as a Coney Island pianist and organized a fivepiece band in 1916 He opened the Club Durant with Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton with whom he later formed a comedy trio for vaudeville and on television He appeared in the Broadway musicals Show Girl The New Yorkers Strike Me Pink Jumbo Red Hot and Blue and Stars in Your Eyes By 1936 he had appeared at the Palladium in London Later he had his own radio and television shows and was a featured headliner in night clubs Biographer Gene Fowler wrote his biography Schnozzola Joining ASCAP in 1941 he collaborated musically with Jackie Barnett and Ben Ryan and his other popular song compositions include Im Jimmy That WellDressed Man I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway I Ups to Him and He Ups to Me Daddy Your Mamma Is Lonesome For You Umbriago Any State In the FortyEight Chidabee Chidabee Chidabee and Im Jimmys Girl
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