Talk-show host and songwriter ("Because We're Young", "Hearts Are Wild"), composer, author, actor and singer, educated at New York University (BS) and a two-year Law School student.
He was a program director and announcer at WPOP in Hartford, Connecticut, and later made several records under his birth name.
Joining ASCAP in 1960, his other popular-song compositions include "Now I Lay Me Down to Cry", "Ballad of Billy Brown", "Flattery", and "Don't Mention My Name". IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
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