- He is one of the few arranger-conductors to have worked on two different film versions of the same musical ("The Desert Song").
- Composed and/or arranged and conducted music exclusively for Warner Brothers films for nearly forty years.
- His favorite conductors were Arturo Toscanini and Leopold Stokowski.
- Brother-in-law of Virginia Grey.
- His hobbies were cooking and music.
- His favorite singers were Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland.
- The Danny Kaye films he worked on were scored at Goldwyn Studios and not at Warner Bros., as most people think.
- Left Warners officially in 1965, only to return in 1968 to do one final picture, Finian's Rainbow (1968).
- His last work was for Jack L. Warner in a Columbia Pictures film, 1776 (1972).
- In 1954 he sued Warner Bros for $20,000 because they refused to allow him to use the title "Musical Director". He lost.
- The recording of the score for Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) took place in his home and not the studio.
- Songwriter ("Some Sunday Morning"), composer, conductor, and arranger, educated at the Troy Conservatory. He joined ASCAP in 1945 and his other popular-song compositions include "Sugarfoot", "Hollywood Canteen", "I'm in a Jam", "Some Sunny Day", "Pete Kelly's Blues", and "Melancholy Rhapsody".
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