Songwriter ("Rosie the Riveter", "There, I've Said It Again", "Let Me
Off Uptown", "No Moon at All"), composer, author, publisher, musician
and record executive, educated at the University of Arizona and Kent
College. He was a singer and ocarina soloist, and then a saxophonist
and clarinetist in dance orchestras, including those of Teddy Wilson
and Horace Heidt. He founded his own music publishing and record firms.
Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborator was David Mann.
His other popular-song compositions include "Don't Go to Strangers",
"Pushin' Along", "The Major and the Minor", "He's 1-A in the Army",
"Are You Livin', Old Man?", "Unconditional Surrender", "This Is the
Night", "Made Up My Mind", "American Beauty Rose", "The Frim Fram
Sauce", "Gobs of Love" (for the US Navy), "Birmingham Jailhouse",
"Walking Down to Washington (new lyrics), and "If Love Is Good to
Me".