Biography

Hit songwriter ("Mule Train", "Clancy Lowered the Boom"), author and publisher, educated in a Philadelphia high school. His daughter is actress Hope Lange. He joined the music staff at film studios in 1937 and resumed his film music career in 1946 and 1947 in collaboration with Lew Porter. He also wrote special material for night club singers, and the "Ice Capades of 1950". Joining ASCAP in 1940, his chief musical collaborators were Archie Gottler and Jack Meskill, and his other popular-song and inspirational compositions included "I Left My Sugar in Salt Lake City", "(That's What) Uncle Remus Said", "Blue Shadows on the Trail", "Pecos Bill", "Chapel in the Valley", "N'Ya, N'Ya, N'Ya, The Little Red Fox", "Somebody Bigger Than You or I", "Santa Claus is Ridin' the Trail", "Easter Sunday on the Prairie", "I Asked the Lord", "I Found the Answer", and "He's Only a Prayer Away".
- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani