- Creator of "Equal Interval System", a unique system to compose music.
- Never had formal music training.
- Player of the trombone, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon.
- Buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1712 South Glendale Ave., Glendale, California.
- Self-taught arranger. As staff arranger for Benny Goodman, the Casa Loma Orchestra and Tommy Dorsey, he contributed greatly to the success of these organisations.
- Formed his own progressive dance band in 1938, for which he contributed the arrangements, as well as playing alto saxophone. Despite good musicianship, the band failed to attract much attention and folded in 1941. Murphy also had his own weekly radio program on New York station WJZ in 1940.
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