Their first hit was "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" (1948), recorded by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.
Over the next 22 years, the songwriting team wrote for Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Dean Martin, and many more.
Tepper lived in Surfside until 2004, when he moved to Williams Island in Aventura just north of the Miami area.
[citation needed] Tepper died on April 24, 2015, in Miami Beach, Florida, aged 96.
[2] More about the songwriting partnership of Tepper and Bennett, including YouTube play links to many of their songs, is at this commemorative web site[3] created in 2020.