Composed a theme tune for Playboy Magazine, called "Playboy's Theme," which was later used as the title music for Playboy After Dark (1969), and is occasionally used today for Playboy-related media, such as advertisements for the magazine.
Composer of the ODD COUPLE television show theme song.
Met his wife, Frances Wayne, when both were with the Woody Herman
orchestra in the 1940s, he as a trumpeter/arranger, she as a singer.
In 1962, he made the musical arrangements of the French song "C'est si bon" which was written in 1947 by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics) for the album "French Style" by Dean Martin.
Graduated from Omaha North High School in Omaha Nebraska in 1941.