Dear Sam. Thanks for your note. Among my father's biggies: Star Dust (with Hoagy Carmichael Moonlight Serenade (with Glen Miller as his theme song) Sophisticated Lady (with Duke Ellington) Sweet Lorraine Deep Purple (Peter DeRose) Sleigh Ride and Syncopated Clock (Leroy Anderson) Ruby Don't Be That Way (Benny Goodman) Stairway to the Stars Tzena Tzena (English lyric) Volare (English lyric) Does Your Heart Beat for Me? (Russ Morgan's theme) Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia Stars Fell on Alabama, Take Me in Your Arms, Emeline, Lilacs in the Rain, Forgotten Deams (which is one of my unsung favorites),Hands Across the Table, Riverboat Shuffle w/Hoagy, One Morning in May w/Hoagy...(it was Hoagy's mother's favorite song), Blue Skirt Waltz, Blonde Sailor, Moonlight Love(music by Claude Debussy Afternoon of a Faun), Skat Song, Mood Indigo w/ Duke Ellington (although Irving Mills was credited with the lyric}, Carolina Rolling Stone, plus many I can't remember. Of course,in the half century of his writings, he had his share of "dogs" (as he called them): Yep the Zep Came Over, I Wish There Was a Television to Heaven etc He had numerous sonnets printed in Walter Winchell's column...later published as "For Those in Love"

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