James Hanley

James Frederick Hanley (b. Rensselaer, February 17, 1892 – d. Doaglaston, New York, February 8, 1942) – Songwriter. Known to Hoosiers as the composer of “Back Home Again in Indiana” (closely modeled after Dresser’s “On the Bank of the Wabash, Far Away,” 1917), Hanley wrote for the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s and for 20^th Century Fox in the early 1930s. Among his popular songs is “Zing Went the Strings of my Heart,” sung by Judy Garland in Little Darling (1938).