Trivia

His RCA Victor albums "Rejoice, Dear Hearts!" (1959) and "Ain't That Wierd?" (1961) both made the top-twenty on the Billboard Album Charts.

Former jazz musician turned comedian, whose comedy was based on discussing intellectual topics in jazzman's slang. After several years off the scene due to illness and drug abuse, he was just beginning a promising comeback when he died of a heart attack on a film set. Extremely popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with several best-selling albums on RCA Victor and Capitol records, he's re-emerged posthumously as something of a comedy cult figure in recent years.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 176-177. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387