Biography

Songwriter ("Tonight You Belong To Me"), composer and author, educated at City College of New York and the Columbia University Teachers College. He composed the Broadway stage scores for "A Night In Venice" and "Broadway Nights", and songs for "Greenwich Village Follies", "Padlocks of 1927", "Cotton Club Revues", and "Ziegfeld Follies". Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborators include John Redmond, Billy Rose, J. Keirn Brennan, Charles O'Flynn, Pete Wendling", Benny Davis, and his brother, Benjamin David. His other song compositions include "Big Apple", "Just a Year Ago Tonight", "Sorority Waltz", "Sipping Cider Thru a Straw", "They're Burning Down the House I Was Brung Up In", "Junior Miss", "Where Is the Sun", "Headin' for Heaven", "Old Plantation", "Down South", "Seeing You Again Did Me No Good", "Wond'ring", "Romance Waltz", "The Fool", "Just a Bit of Heaven In Your Smile", "Honey Bunny Boo", and "Moon River Waltz".
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