About
Wrote I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark and Won't You Come Over to My House? He specialized in pop and ragtime.
Before Fame
He started out as a song-plugger for Tin Pan Alley.
Trivia
He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Family Life
He was the son of Charles Van Alstyne and Emma M. Van Alstyne.
Associated With
He collaborated on Pretty Baby with Tony Jackson.
