Talk:Irving Mills

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The listing of Duke Ellington's music at the end of the Irving Mills article is inaccurate. Half of the songs listed were composed after Ellington severed his relationship with Mills and all of the albums listed were released long after Ellington lerft Mills. Owen (talk) 00:03, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

The listing at the bottom is just an index/overview of Duke Ellington related entried on wikipedia. It has nothing to do with Irving Mills, other than the "Irving Mills" entry in the "other" section. Click on any of the listings there and you'll see the same index on the bottom of the page. HoytClagwell (talk) 21:27, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

This Man Has Warts!
This article is incredibly flattering to Irving Mills. He had a lot of warts and I have to find a reliable source to include them in the article. Don't get me wrong, he did some great things. Mills as a lyricist? Bull(bleep)! A noted jazz radio personality in New York has said, he lives in dread that in 500 years, Irving Mills will be considered a great composer.

--Ellingtonrecords (talk) 14:20, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Mill's birth name
There are many things wrong with this entry. But I'll start with his birth name of Isadore. This comes from my research into the song "St. James Infirmary" in which I wrote that, according to a 1900 census: "...and another son of six whose name is barely legible but could have been Isidor." My conjecture has now entered his biography, but it was a mistake for me to say that. On the 1896 ship which brought the family to New York, he was listed Isaac, and his brother Jacob. By the 1910 census they had Americanized their names to Irving and Jack, and their surname from Minsky to Mills. It was never either Isidor or Isadore. Robert W. Harwood "I Went Down to St. James Infirmary" Bookok (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2022 (UTC)