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Songwriter ("As Time Goes By"), composer, singer, author and pianist who followed his high school education with United States Navy military service in World War I. He sang his own songs in the Broadway revue "Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic" (1912) and wrote songs for the musicals "A la Carte", "The Little Show", "Second Little Show", "Everybody's Welcome", and "Murder at the Vanities". He was later a singer and pianist throughout the United States and Europe, and during World War II, he entertained in military camps and hospitals. Joining ASCAP in 1931, his other popular-song compositions include "Sing Something Simple", "When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba", "Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep", "Are You Making Any Money?", "Savage Serenade", "Down the Old Back Road", "A Hut in Hoboken", "Night Owl", "Honey Ma Love", "Baby's Blue", and "The Calinda".