Composer, songwriter ("Do I Worry?"), director, author and publicist
who came to Hollywood after high school in 1937. He was an assistant
film director, and a writer of special material for orchestras,
musicals and films (including "Hopalong Cassidy"). During World War II,
he produced shows for the US Air Force. By 1948, he was in radio and
television production; the next year, he became a publicist, and was
with Rogers and Cowan since 1960. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief
musical collaborators included his father Rubey Cowan, Bobby Worth, and
Sidney Miller. His other popular-song compositions include "Be Young
Again", "I Give You a Smile for a Smile", "Taps 'Til Reveille", "Who
Are You?", "What's This", "Listen to Me Sing", "I Realize Now", and "A
Cowgirl Dreams On".
