- Songwriter ("Are You Lonesome Tonight?"), composer and pianist. He toured in vaudeville in Australia, and served in the US Army during World War I, then was a pianist for music-publishing firms and accompanied vaudeville singers. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborator was Irving Fields, and his other popular-song compositions include "Give Me a Smile and a Kiss", "My Sweetie Went Away", "I Can't Get the One I Want", "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston", "What Good Would It Do?", "Is My Baby Blue Tonight?", "No Nothing", "Me and the Moon", "Was It Rain?", "Don't Ever Change", "Baby Me", "Blue", and "Puddin' Head Jones".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
- In 2007, Handman's song "Are You Lonesome Tonight" recorded by Elvis Presley in 1960 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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