Biography

Songwriter ("Mississippi Mud", "I Like Mountain Music", "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You", "Christmas in Killarney") and author, educated in public schools, then a writer of vaudeville material, collaborating with John Redmond, Nat Simon, Frank Weldon, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Dick Robertson and Harry Barris. Joining ASCAP in 1933, his other popular-song compositions include "The Horse with the Lavender Eyes", "The Umbrella Man", "You're In My Power", "The Gaucho Serenade", "Crosstown", "Whistling in the Wildwood", "The Man with the Mandolin", "You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again", "I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd", "A Little on the Lonely Side", "I'd Do It All Over Again", "On a Simmery Summery Day", and "Dearest Darling".
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