[1] He had an active career on Broadway from 1942 through 1963, and was also a prolific composer of jingles for advertisements on radio and television with the Young and Rubicam (Y & R) agency.
[2] His undergraduate education was from Colgate University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Epsilon.
[2][1] While a student at Juilliard he arranged music for his first Broadway show, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936.
These included Banjo Eyes (1941), By Jupiter (1942), Count Me In (1942), Early to Bed (1943), My Dear Public (1943), A Connecticut Yankee (1943), and Jackpot (1944).
[3][2] He co-composed the score for the 1956 television musical The Adventures of Marco Polo with Mel Pahl, which was broadcast nationally on CBS with stars Doretta Morrow and Alfred Drake.