Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are
Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York
University (BS) and a two-year Law School student. He was a program
director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made
several records under his birth name. Joining ASCAP in 1960, his other
popular-song compositions include "Now I Lay Me Down to Cry", "Ballad
of Billy Brown", "Flattery", and "Don't Mention My Name".
