Songwriter ("Beer Barrel Polka", "Sonny Boy", "The Thrill is Gone"), composer, author, publisher and producer, he came to the USA in 1898 and was educated at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York. In 1925, he joined Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson as a songwriting team and music publishers. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "George White's Scandals" (1925...See full bio »
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Episode #1.10
(1957)
(lyrics: "Sunny Side Up" - uncredited)
1957The Edsel Show
(TV special)
(writer: "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain If I Knew I'd Find You" - uncredited / lyrics: "The Birth of the Blues" - uncredited, "It All Depends on You" - uncredited)
1956The Best Things in Life Are Free
(lyrics: "Lucky Day", "If I Had a Talking Picture of You", "Here Am I, Broken Hearted", "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Good News", "You're the Cream in My Coffee", "The Best Things in Life Are Free", "Lucky in Love", "Black Bottom", "Birth of the Blues", "Sonny Boy", "Follow Thru", "One More Time", "Thank Your Father", "This Is the Missus", "Together", "It All Depends on You", "You Try Somebody Else We'll Be Back Together Again", "Without Love")
1947Good News
(lyrics: "Good News" - uncredited, "Tait Song" - uncredited, "Be a Ladies' Man" - uncredited, "Lucky in Love" - uncredited, "The Best Things in Life Are Free" - uncredited, "Just Imagine" - uncredited, "Varsity Drag" - uncredited)
1946Okay for Sound
(documentary short)
(lyrics: "Sonny Boy" - uncredited)
1946The Captive Heart
(lyrics: "Roll Out the Barrel" "The Beer Barrel Polka" - uncredited, "The Beer Barrel Polka" - uncredited)
1940Young People
(music: "Baby Take a Bow" 1934 - uncredited / lyrics: "Baby Take a Bow" 1934 - uncredited)
1939Barricade
(lyrics: "There'll Be Other Nights" 1939 - uncredited)
1939These Glamour Girls
(writer: "Beer Barrel Polka Roll Out the Barrel" 1934 - uncredited)
1939Conspiracy
(lyrics: "Take The World Off My Shoulders")
1938Tarnished Angel
(lyrics: "It's the Doctor's Orders" 1938)
1938Straight Place and Show
(lyrics: "With You on My Mind" 1938 - uncredited, "Why Not String Along With Me" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Hold That Co-ed
(lyrics: "Heads High" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Hard to Get
(lyrics: "Sonny Boy" 1928 - uncredited)
1937Vogues of 1938
(lyrics: "That Old Feeling" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Stand-In
(lyrics: "That Old Feeling" 1937 - uncredited)
1937New Faces of 1937
(lyrics: "Our Penthouse on Third Avenue" 1937, "It Goes to Your Feet" 1937, "If I Didn't Have You" 1937, "Love Is Never Out of Season" 1937)
1936The Music Goes 'Round
(writer: "Rolling Along", "This Is Love", "Let's Go", "Suzannah", "There'll Be No South" / lyrics: "Life Begins When You're in Love,")
1936Strike Me Pink
(lyrics: "First You Have Me High Then You Have Me Low" 1935 - uncredited, "The Lady Dances" 1935 - uncredited, "Calabash Pipe" 1935 - uncredited, "Shake It Off with Rhythm" 1935 - uncredited)
1934Stand Up and Cheer!
(music: "Stand Up And Cheer!" 1934 - uncredited, "I'm Laughin'" 1934 - uncredited, "Baby, Take a Bow" 1934 - uncredited, "Broadway's Gone Hill-Billy" 1934 - uncredited, "This Is Our Last Night Together" 1934 - uncredited, "She's 'Way Up Thar" 1934 - uncredited / lyrics: "Stand Up And Cheer!" 1934 - uncredited, "I'm Laughin'" 1934 - uncredited, "Baby, Take a Bow" 1934 - uncredited, "Broadway's Gone Hill-Billy" 1934 - uncredited, "This Is Our Last Night Together" 1934 - uncredited, "She's 'Way Up Thar" 1934 - uncredited, "We're Out of the Red" 1934 - uncredited)
1931Thrills of Yesterday
(short)
(lyrics: "Wait Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys" - uncredited)
1930Just Imagine
(lyrics: "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" 1930 - uncredited, "Mothers Ought to Tell Their Daughters" 1930 - uncredited, " I Am the Words You Are the Melody" 1930 - uncredited, "The Drinking Song" 1930 - uncredited, "Never Swat a Fly" 1930 - uncredited, "The Romance of Elmer Stremingway" 1930 - uncredited)
1930One Good Turn
(short)
("Don't Tell Her What Happened to Me")
1930Follow Thru
(lyrics: "Button Up Your Overcoat", "You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?", "I Want to Be Bad")
1930Good News
(lyrics: "Good News" 1927 - uncredited, "The Varsity Drag" 1927 - uncredited, "Tait Song" 1927 - uncredited, "The Best Things in Life Are Free" 1927 - uncredited, "He's a Ladies' Man" 1927 - uncredited, "Students Are We" 1927 - uncredited)
1930I Came First
(short)
(lyrics: "I Used to Love You but It's All Over Now" - uncredited)
1929Sunnyside Up
(lyrics: " I'M A DREAMER AREN'T WE ALL?", "YOU FIND THE TIME AND I'LL FIND THE PLACE", "YOU'VE GOT ME PICKIN' PETALS OFF O' DAISIES", "SUNNY SIDE UP", "TURN ON THE HEAT", "IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU", "IT'S GREAT TO BE NECKED")
1929Song of Love
(writer: "Atlas Is Itless" - uncredited)
1929Say It with Songs
(writer: "Why Can't You" - uncredited / lyrics: "I'm in Seventh Heaven" - uncredited, "Little Pal" - uncredited, "Used to You" - uncredited)
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