Prolific composer ("Manhattan Tower"), songwriter ("Goodbye"),
conductor, arranger and author, educated in public schools and then a
banjoist in orchestras and on radio in St. Louis, Missouri, then came
to Hollywood in 1938 as music director for NBC and composer of scores
for films, radio, and night club revues. He conducted and arranged the
Broadway musical "The Show Is On", and composed the Broadway stage
score for "Along Fifth Avenue". Joining ASCAP in 1935, his other
popular-song compositions include "Blue Prelude", "You Have Taken My
Heart", "When a Woman Loves a Man", "P.S. I Love You", "Blue Evening",
"Ev'ry Time", "Maybe She'll Remember", "Saddest Man in Town", "San
Fernando Valley", "When You Climb Those Golden Stairs", "Homesick,
That's All", "Goin' Back to Brooklyn", "Married I Can Always Get",
"Daylight Savings Blues", "The Man Who Loves Manhattan", "Once to Every
Heart", "How Old Am I?", and "This Is All I Ask".
The Kraft Music Hall(1967)as The Music Director
The First Deadly Sin(1980)
Rosetti and Ryan(1977)
The Bell Telephone Hour(1959)
One Night with Robbie Williams(2001)
Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra(1973)
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music Part II(1966)
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music(1965)
The Big Party(1959)
The Nat King Cole Show(1956)
Novak(2025)
Morning Joe(2007)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!(2003)
Pretend It's a City(2021)
All or Nothing: The Dallas Cowboys(2018)
A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night(1973)as Self
The Merv Griffin Show(1962)as Self - composer-pianist
About Faces(1959)as Self
The Ed Sullivan Show(1948)as Self