Composer, songwriter ("Yellow Rose of Texas", "I'm Beginning to See the
Light"), author and artist, educated in New York public schools. He
wrote special material for Nat "King" Cole, Patti Page, Fran Warren and
Ida Lupino, and he wrote the stage score for "Wet Paint". As an artist,
he has held one-man shows for his works. Joining ASCAP in 1942, his
chief musical collaborators included Duke Ellington, Mabel Wayne, Steve
Allen, Oscar Levant, Peter De Rose, Nat "King" Cole, Harry James and
Bee Walker. His other popular-song compositions include "Papa
Niccolini", "I Never Mention Your Name", "Calypso Blues", "Beautiful
Blonde from Bashful Bend", "Eleven Sixty P.M.", "Cuban Nightingale",
"Coal Dust on the Fiddle", "I Was Telling Her About You", "Mambo,
Tango, Samba, Calypso, Rhumba Blues", "Slowly With Feeling", "A Touch
of the Blues", "The Magic Fountain", "Two Thirds of he Tennessee
River", "Holiday in Brussels", "Tropical Trade Winds", "It Shouldn't
Happen to a Dream", "When Will I Forget You", and "The Right Kind of
Love"
Hollywood(2020)
Work in Progress(2019)
Manchester by the Sea(2016)
Cássia Eller(2014)
Shirley(2011)
The Ed Sullivan Show(1948)as Self