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- Composer, songwrier, author and pianist, educated at the Hartl School of Music. He served in the US Army during World War II and then, in 1946, he joined the Tex Beneke band. He was a piano soloist with the Cincinnati, Buffalo and Washington symphony orchestras, and a pianist in an all-Gershwin concert with the New York Philharmonic in 1951. He played in night clubs across the USA and in London, and was featured as a team with Cy Walter. He also had his own radio shows, and made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborator was Jack Lawrence, and his popular-song compositions include "Miss Satan", "My Heart Will Tell You So", "Guy With the Voodoo", "Faith", "The Fickle Finger of Fate", and "The Other Half of Me".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- Freeman's television work included composing special musical material for Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore.
- Freeman studied at the Hartt School of Music, but he soon went to New York City to find work in radio and the early days of television.
- He played harpsichord on Percy Faith's "Delicado", a no. 1 hit in 1952.
- Freeman conducted Broadway concerts for Marlene Dietrich in 1967 and 1968 and provided arrangements for three of Michael Feinstein's Broadway outings.
- He composed the score for Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen, the short-lived 1970 musical adaptation of The Teahouse of the August Moon.
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