Songwriter ("Messin' Around", "Girl of the Golden West"), composer,
arranger and RKO executive, educated at the Chicago Musical College
(BA, MM, Mus.D.)and a student of Felix Borowski and Louis Victor Saar.
He was a staff composer with Detroit publishing firms, and led his own
orchestra in Chicago, and later a staff composer with Radio City Music
Hall. He arranged the Broadway musicals "Hot Mikado", "Cabin in the
Sky", "Son s o' Fun", "Banjo Eyes", "Sadie Thompson", and "Follow the
Girls". Joining ASCAP in 1940, his other popular-song compositions
include "I Wonder Where My Loving Man Is Gone", "Blame It on the
Blues", "Sing Song Swing", "Drummer's Say", "Lovin' You the Way I Do",
and "Goodbye Pretty Butterflies".
