He recorded his own "It's Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby" with Benny Goodman in 1940 and nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a successful popular song composer.
Snimio je vlastitu pjesmu "It's Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby" s Bennyjem Goodmanom 1941., te je čitav život njegovao svoju ambiciju da postane uspješan skladatelj zabavne glazbe.