Isham Jones
Blues Singer
Best known for It Had to Be You, I'll See You In My Dreams, and There is No Greater Love. His songs were covered by many legends.
His 1910 composition Down By The Old Mill Stream and his On The Alamo from 1911 were two of his earliest published compositions.
He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
He was born into a musical family who earned their living in the coal mines of Coalton, Ohio. His father was a fiddle player.
His song It Had to Be You was recorded by many artists, including Billie Holiday.