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 five-piece 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 "I'm Jimmy That  Well-Dressed 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 Forty-Eight", "Chidabee Chidabee  Chidabee", and "I'm Jimmy's Girl".