Composer, songwriter ("Little Jack Frost, Get Lost", "You're All I Want for Christmas"), singer, pianist and author, educated at the University of Virginia. He was a pianist and singer in vaudeville and in night clubs, and made many records, and later conducted his own band, the Choir of Brass. Joining ASCAP in 1942, his other popular-song compositions include "Oilers" (the official song of the Houston Oilers of the American Football League), "No, Baby, Nobody But You", "Eleven Sixty P.M.", "Drizzle Drizzle The Party's a Fizzle, O What a Night", "My Beloved Is Rugged", "After You", "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You", "Christmas Will Be Here", "You Don't Have to Be a Santa Claus", "If I Can't Wear the Pants", "It Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You", "I Need You Like I Need a Hole in the Head", "Unless You're Free", "Goin' Steady Anniversary", "I Wish I Had My Old Time Sweetheart Back Again", "I'm Never the Lover", "You Be You", and "If You've Got Someplace to Go".
