Jimmy Cox

{{Short description|American songwriter (1882–1925)}}

James Cox (July 28, 1882 – March 3, 1925){{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7RP-83K|title=FamilySearch|website=Familysearch.org|access-date=September 3, 2022}} was an American vaudeville performer, and songwriter famous for his Jazz Age hit, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out", written in 1923 in the wake of the 1920–1921 economic depression.

Jimmy Cox's daughter, Gertrude "Baby" Cox, sang with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1928.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQglDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22jimmy+cox%22+%22nobody+knows+you%22+1925&pg=PA88|title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings|first=Steve|last=Sullivan|date=17 May 2017|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442254497 |access-date=September 3, 2022|via=Google Books}} Jimmy Cox died on March 3, 1925 at age 42.