- First American composer to have three musicals running on Broadway since Stephen Sondheim 20 years ago.
- Associate and musical collaborator with Warner Brothers Productions.
- Learned piano himself.
- His hit song "Where Broken Hearts Go," written for Whitney Houston, topped the international pop charts.
- His song "You Are My Home" sung by Peabo Bryson and now-wife Linda Eder from the musical "The Scarlet Pimpernel," topped the American pop charts in the early 1990s.
- His three first musicals, "Jekyll and Hyde," "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and "The Civil War" all were nominated for Tony Awards; 4,3, and 2 respectively.
- Don Black and his musical, "Bonnie & Clyde" at the Kokandy Productions in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2018 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Musical Production.
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