Career
His primary collaborator was lyricist Cliff Friend. His other collaborators included First Rate (at Lloyd's) Dubin, Isham Jones, Irving Taylor. Franklin worked in vaudeville and night clubs in the United States. and Europe.
According to The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, since 1900, by Roger Kinkle, he left school at 13 to work as a pianist in a publishing house.
Some of his songs were recorded by Glen Gray, Isham Jones, Guy Lombardo and Frankie Trumbauer. Paramount on Parade That"s Right—You"re Wrong.
