This appears to be an Irving Mills pseudonym. Between 1919 and 1965 he became the largest independent music publisher in the world. He discovered many great songwriters, among them S. Fain, H. Barris, G. Austin, H. Carmichael, J. McHugh and D. Fields. He also discovered or greatly advanced the careers of C. Calloway, Ellington, B. Pollack, J. Teagarden, B. Goodman a.o. Mills was not a composer, but his contract with Ellington was a very favorable one; he owned 50% in Duke Ellington Inc. and thus got his name tag on quite a number of tunes that became popular standards. Mills was one of the first to record black and white musicians together. Irving was recording all the time and became the head of the American Recording Company, which is now Columbia Records. He profusely performed on radio as a singer. He produced one picture, Stormy Weather, for Twentieth Century Fox in 1943. This lovely tune was recorded in 1929. The vocal is credited to Irving Kaufman, which might be questionable.
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