Biography
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".
