- Wrote numerous standards - ones so good they became other's trademark songs - before having his life cut short in a plane crash. Among his works are the sexually charged torch ballad, "Moanin' Low" (popularized initially by Libby Holman) and Bob Hope's trademark tune "Thanks For The Memory."
- Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Most generously paid for Arnold Schönberg's furniture to be shipped from Europe to Los Angeles USA at a time when Schönberg could not afford to pay, under the pretense of an exchange for composition lessons.
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