Career
He died on March 1, 1967 in New York City. He started off as a pianist with vaudeville greats such as First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jolson, Sophie Tucker, Belle Baker, and Frank Fay. In 1923 he worked for the Irving Berlin Music Company.
While there, he worked numerous film scores.
He later became the head of the music department of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Radio. He left the Music Company in 1947.
"" is sometimes listed under Dreyer"s credits. In fact the song was written by composer Hans Otten and lyricist Gerhard Ebeler, and the English words were written by Hal Cotten at Dreyer"s request so that a vocal could be dubbed into the Ken Griffin recording.
