After the war, he worked at the height of The Great American Songbook as a contracted songwriter for the music publisher Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. in NYC's Brill Building, in the historic Tin Pan Alley writing a multitude of songs performed by such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Harry James, Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye, Xavier Cugat and Jimmy Heath.
He left his position as staff writer in 1952 due to the death of a relative to lead an existing family business as head of the Painting and Decorating Contractors of America.
He returned to music in 1989 when a song he co-wrote with Jack Manus and Guy Wood recorded by Guy Lombardo with Xavier Cugat was featured in the theatrical release of the Woody Allen film Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The tune was incorrectly licensed and miscredited resulting in mistaken violation of the songwriters' copyrights.
Although it resulted in a winning settlement for the writers, the song was later replaced by another when the film was released on video.