Biography
Songwriter ("Lemon Tree", "Those Were the Days", "One of Those Songs"), composer, singer, guitarist, director and producer, educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Williams College and the Richard Dyer Bennett School of Minstrelsy. He was a singer and guitarist in nightclubs, toured for Columbia Concerts and, eventually, co-founded St. Louis' Crystal Palace. He wrote, produced and appeared in the off-Broadway revue "Signs Along the Cynic Route", directed and appeared in "The World of Kurt Weill in Song", and he directed "Leonard Bernstein's Theatre Songs". Joining ASCAP in 1959, his other popular-song compositions include "Sinner Man", "Raspberries, Strawberries", "Daddy, Roll 'Em", "The Pergola", "Till the Birds Sing in the Morning", "Watching the World Go By", "Adieu, Madras", "Days of the Waltz", "Luv" and "Marieke".
