Pianist, composer, conductor, author and songwriter, educated at the
Temple School of Music, the French Conservatory (with Fouchet and
Decroux), and at the Tadlewski Institute in Nice. He was a pianist in
the Jim Europe orchestra, and then with the New York Syncopated
Orchestra. He was a soloist in night clubs and theatres in New York,
London and Paris, and authored the book "Syncopation". Joining ASCAP in
1955, his chief musical collaborator was Clarence Muse. His
popular-song compositions include "No More Sleepy Time", "The Little
Things You Do" and "The Hills Are Mine".
