[1] He worked on ships throughout Asia and then became a dance instructor at an Arthur Murray studio in New York City.
[1] His first professional lyric was "Masquerade" (music by John Jacob Loeb) which became a hit in 1932, performed by Paul Whiteman.
His first hit was a collaboration in 1941 with Duke Ellington on the song "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)".
In 1967, he was asked to write the lyrics for the Spider-Man theme song[citation needed] for the television cartoon series of the same name.
[9] His younger son, Mona Roger Webster, is a conceptual artist, a real estate investor and a longtime resident of Venice, CA.