Born Seymour Arnold Feuerman in Brooklyn, New York,[1] he became a professional trumpeter at the age of fifteen, working at clubs on weekends to help support his family while attending New Utrecht High School.
[citation needed] Having no interest in mathematics, science, or sports, he dropped out of school and found work as a trumpeter on a political campaign truck.
[3] During his Hollywood sojourn, he enjoyed a tumultuous one-year affair with actress Susan Hayward (also from Brooklyn),[4] worked with Jule Styne, Frank Loesser, and Victor Young, among others, received five Academy Award nominations for his film scores, and married a divorcée, Posy Greenberg, a mother of a three-year-old son.
[citation needed] In 1947, having decided he had no real talent for film scoring,[5] Feuer returned to New York City, where he teamed up with Ernest H. Martin, who had been the head of comedy programming at CBS Radio.
[10] Feuer's memoir, I Got The Show Right Here: The Amazing, True Story of How an Obscure Brooklyn Horn Player Became the Last Great Broadway Showman, written with Ken Gross, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003.