Jimmy McHugh, the great songwriter was a Jamaica Plain native who never forgot his family back at home even when he was hobnobbing with the movie stars out in Hollywood.
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Tyrannical, temperamental, handsome, and avant-garde, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, lived in Jamaica Plain at the beginning of his American career.
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This presentation by Richard Vacca, author of The Boston Jazz Chronicles, looks at the career of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, who was born in Jamaica Plain in 1894 and grew up there.
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