Born in Boston, Silver grew up on the lower East Side of Manhattan.
He began playing drums in a Bowery music hall's orchestra when he was 15.
He also performed with the Hitchy-Koo traveling revue of Raymond Hitchcock and worked at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
[2] Other songs that Silver wrote included "Icky Wicky Woo" and "What Do We Get from Boston?
[2] On June 14, 1960, Silver died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital at age 68.