Songwriter ("Tenement Symphony", "I'm Building Up to an Awful
Letdown"), composer and conductor. Educated at Northwestern University
and the University of Illinois Music School. He worked at RKO for Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers for seven years, and was musical director for
Tony Martin 1949-1956. He served in the US army in WW II. He joined
ASCAP in 1942, and his chief musical collaborators were Johnny Mercer,
Ray Golden, Sid Kuller, Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Cahn, Mort Greene,
Gus Kahn, Ray Gilbert, Buddy Kaye. He wrote the revue "Jump For Joy"
with Duke Ellington in 1940 and his other songs include "I Ain't Hep to
That Step, But I'll Dig It", "So Long Joe","Roulette", "If You Catch a
Little Cold", "It's Only a Man", and "Christmas in America".
Roberta(1935)as Wabash Indianian
Flying Down to Rio(1933)as Pianist
World Wide Adventures: Annabel Lee(1969)
Hillbillys in a Haunted House(1967)
Promises..... Promises!(1963)
Flight of the Lost Balloon(1961)
The Explosive Generation(1961)
The Tony Martin Show(1954)
The Colgate Comedy Hour(1950)
Four Star Revue(1950)
Lady Possessed(1952)
Two Tickets to Broadway(1951)
Cake(2014)
American Masters(1985)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing(2009)
Beverly Hills Cop III(1994)
Family Business(1989)
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story(1987)as Rogers Accompanist, Self - Astaire
Omnibus(1967)as Self