Buddy Fields (songwriter)

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Buddy Fields was an important songwriter during the early twentieth century. He was born on September 24, 1889, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (which is now in Austria). He died on October 4, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. His name at birth was Arthur B. Fields. His most famous song "You Gotta Be a Football Hero" was cowritten with Al Sherman and Al Lewis. Fields was both an author and agent having been educated in Chicago public schools.