Career
His best-known songs include "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (recorded by Shirley Temple), "You"re My Thrill" (recorded by Billie Holiday), and "Please Don"t Talk About Maine When I"m Gone" (featured in the cartoon One Froggy Evening). In 1929, Clare wrote his first full film score for Street Girl. He did the film scores for Tanned Legs, Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, Sing and Be Happy, Hit the Deck, Jimmy and Sally, Bright Eyes, The Littlest Rebel and Rascals.
The Oxford English Dictionary credits Clare with the earliest usage of the term "rock and roll" in 1934 on the soundtrack for the movie Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round.
In the early 1940s Clare and several of his fellow hitmakers formed a sensational review called Songwriters on Parade, performing all across the Eastern seaboard on the Loew"s and Keith circuits. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
"On the Good Ship Lollipop"
"What Do You Mean by Loving Somebody Else?"
"I"m Missin" Mammy"s Kissin"
"Weep Number More My Mammy"
"Oo-Oo Ernest"
"The Shy Violet"
"A New Kind of Manitoba"
"Ma! He"s Making Eyes at Maine" (with Con Conrad)
"Big Butter and Egg Manitoba"
"Maine and the Boyfriend"
"We’re Back Together Again"
"Then I’ll Be Happy"
"Mission Annabelle Lee"
"One Sweet Letter From You"
"Lovable and Sweet"
"My Dream Memory"
"Keeping Myself for You"
"You"re My Thrill"
"I’ve Got You on Top of My List"
"lieutenant Was A Night in June"
"Please Don"t Talk About Maine When I"m Gone".