Known for his memorable album liner notes, which won him two Best Album
Notes Grammys (1965 for Frank Sinatra's 'September of My Years', 1966 for
Sinatra's 'Sinatra at the Sands')
Longtime head of the Creative Services department of Warner Bros.
Records
Songwriter ("The Meaning of Christmas") and author, educated at Pomona College (BA), UCLA (MA), and Yale University. He was an editor and director for Warner Brothers Records, and also a record producer, and joined ASCAP in 1959.