Jimmy Dunne (Songwriter)

James Patrick Dunne is an American songwriter, recording artist, composer, film and television producer, and entrepreneur. His songs have been recorded on 27,000,000 records worldwide and over 1,400 television episodes and film scores. He is best known for writing the National Association of Recording Merchandisers’ “Best Record of the Year” “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do,” which was recorded by artists such as Whitney Houston, Jermaine Jackson, Anne Murray, and Dave Loggins.

Jimmy Dunne was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the second of seven children. He went to high school at Lyons Township, a public high school in La Grange, Illinois. He played varsity tennis and wrote for the school paper.

Dunne attended the University of Kentucky where he played on the varsity Tennis Team and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Dunne graduated with double majors in journalism and business and minors in Music and Advertising. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, finishing in the top 1% of his graduating class. He was also a writer for the Kentucky Kernel school newspaper, and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honorary. While in college, Dunne began his music career playing concerts throughout the Midwest while he was recording his second instrumental album, Me and My Song. He also founded Dunne productions, a music booking agency in Kentucky.

Dunne moved to Los Angeles as the Tutor in Residence for SAE at the University of Southern California (USC) while taking graduate courses at USC’s Thornton School of Music. He landed his first job with Happy Days and soon after he was hired, Jimmy wrote an episode for the show and became the youngest producer at Paramount just a year later. He continued to work on Happy Days and wrote some of the most memorable episodes of the series.

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