While selling papers, he decided to become a songwriter and started keeping a notebook of poems and rhymes that he thought would be useful someday.
He collaborated with many artists and fellow songwriters, including Les Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Al Dubin, Ella Fitzgerald, Slim Gaillard, Ray Henderson, Ben Homer, Raymond Scott, Sam H. Stept, and Harry Warren.
[2] At 21, Bud Green married a girl from the Ziegfeld Follies, Nan Hinken, they were together until her death in the early 1960s.
After selling his company, Green moved his family to Yonkers, New York, where he lived the rest of his life commuting to NYC every day.
[2] Bud Green wrote or co-wrote a number of songs, including: He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.