Real name: Moses Jaffe

American songwriter and author.
Born - 23rd October 1901 in Vilna, Russia. Died - 2nd December 1972 Cresskill, New Jersey, USA.
Family arrived in America when he was just 6 months old. He wrote his first hit song, "Collegiate," when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
He's charted 13 times in the U.S. from 1925 to 1965. "Bell Bottom Trousers" charted 6 different artists in 1945, with the highet being #2 by Tony Pastor and His Orchestra and also by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
He's also well-known for the songs "The Gypsy in My Soul", "If I Had My Life to Live Over", "If You Are But a Dream", and "I'm My Own Grandpa".