Career
As a child, he performed in vaudeville and films and on radio. Later he wrote special material for theater and night club revues, including "Cotton Club Parade", "Riviera Follies", "Paradise Parade", and "Latin Quarter Revue". Drake"s musical collaborators included Oscar Levant, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, Louis Alter and Con Conrad among others
In August 1962 Drake resigned from AGAC in protest.
Drake criticised the lack of progressive leadership at the organisation, and their relationship with music publishers. In 1949 Drake married the singer Adele Clark, Decca recording artist and star of The Adele Clark Show.
