Songwriter ("A New Shade of Blues", "I Have But One Heart"), composer
and publisher, educated at the Zwecker-Hahn Conservatory in
Philadelphia, and also a music student in Vienna.
He was in a vocal group with the Tony Pastor Orchestra between 1938 and
1941, later joining the staff of a Chicago music publisher, eventually
owning his own publishing firm and joining ASCAP in 1947.
His other popular-song compositions include "Tara Talara Tala", "Formal
Night in Harlem", "Swinging in a Swing", "Catch On", and "If You Were
There".
