Songwriter ("Send Me the Pillow You Dream On"), composer, singer, guitarist and bassist, he was a winner on the Major Bowes Amateur program, and toured with the Bowes units. He had his own group in radio and television in North Carolina and Georgia, and in films. He also worked as a disk jockey on an Augusta, Georgia radio station. Joining ASCAP in 1951, his other song compositions include "Look In the Looking Glass", "Journey's End", "Days Are Long, Nights Are Lonely", "Juke Box Gal" and "Savannah River Rag".