- Songwriter, composer, trumpeter, author and arranger, educated in high school and in private music study. He was a trumpeter and arranger for the Ted Weems orchestra for ten years, and then a staff arranger for ABC in Chicago and Los Angeles. He arranged for records and television, joined ASCAP in 1954, and his chief musical collaborators included his wife Marilyn Hooven, and 'By' Dunham and Jerry Winn. His popular-song compositions included "Any Way the Wind Blows", "Oh What a Beautiful Dream", "Baby, Baby, Wait For Me", "La-bou-laya", "Jesse James", "Little Nathan", "George Washington", "Ben Franklin", "Jim Bowie", "Billy Budd", and "Cannonball".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- SpouseMarilyn Hooven
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