Composer, songwriter ("Moon Love", "For Your Love"), and author,
educated at DeWitt Clinton High School. He later conducted his own
orchestra. He was on the executive staff of CBS' Artist Bureau and MCA.
Joining ASCAP in 1939, his chief musical collaborators included Sammy
Stept, Mack David, Don George, and Walter Kent. His other popular-song
compositions include "I Never Mention Your Name (Oh No)", "There's
Honey on the Moon Tonight", "What Is Love?", "An Evening in Paris",
"Just a Moon Ago", "Yesterday's Love", "My Songs", "Pretty Little
Hindu", Nothing Ever Happens to Me", and "Serenade to
Love".
