Biography

Composer, songwriter, lyricist ("Elmer's Tune", "Count Every Star", "Holiday for Strings"), and author, educated at Duluth Junior College. He wrote revues for the Latin Quarter in New York, and also songs for the Broadway musicals "Star and Garter", "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" and "All For Love". Joining ASCAP in 1942, his chief musical collborators included Peter DeRose, David Rose, Guy Wood, Jerry Livingston, David Saxon, Elmer Albrecht, Rube Bloom, Howard Steiner, Steve Allen, Chester Conn, Milton Delugg, and James Van Heusen. His other popular-song compositions include "Elmer's Tune", "Autumn Serenade", "Shoofly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy", "There Must Be a Way", "Outside of Heaven", "Somewhere Along the Way", "My Lady Loves to Dance", "Make Her Mine", "Forgive My Heart", "Wake the Town and Tell the People", "Half as Lovely", "No Good Man", "Maybe You'll Be There", "Caribbean Clipper", "Bluebird Singing in My Heart", "Vagabond Shoes", "Night Lights", "The Right Thing to Say" and "Meet Me Where They Play the Blues".

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