About
Best known for composing It Was a Very Good Year and I Believe, two American Songbook standards.
Before Fame
He graduated from the City College of New York with a bachelor of arts degree in social science in 1940.
Trivia
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
Family Life
He was born to Max Druckman and Pearl Cohen. His younger brother Arnold Drake was a popular comic book writer for industry stalwarts DC and Marvel.
Associated With
His song It Was a Very Good Year was covered by such legends as Frank Sinatra and William Shatner.
