Welcome to my website!

I'm a lucky guy.

I've spent my life playing and singing the music I love with some of the most talented people in the music business... artists like Vic Damone, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock... producers like Hugh Hefner, Mitch Miller, and Fred Foster... arrangers like Don Costa... and many other musical geniuses too numerous to mention.

As a teenager, I fell in love with the jazz guitar of Charlie Christian (Benny Goodman Sextet) and Oscar Moore (Nat King Cole Trio). After I started playing around my hometown Chicago with groups of my own, people would ask me to sing. Ever since then, singing and playing have been inseparable to me. I still perform, write, and record, and will until the day I die.

And now I have a website, for which I am very grateful.

My wife Dale and I have worked together to re-construct and organize my life in music here... past, present, and future. I got a kick out of re-living some fond memories, like signing with Mitch Miller and Columbia Records, Hef and the Playboy Club years, and making a splash on Jackie Gleason's TV show. By now even my bad manager stories are humorous. (See Career History.) I hope you enjoy some of these stories.

Thanks to my good friend Austin Bealmear for the excellent liner notes he wrote for one of my CDs which I've included here on the Biography page.

Publishing-wise, I have both ASCAP and BMI music publishing licenses and a catalog full of undiscovered hit songs. One was a #1 hit overseas for Dionne Warwick but has never been released in the U.S. (See Publishing page.)

Stay in touch!

Enjoy the music!  (More song samples featured in Career History section.)