Ray Carter

Songwriter ("All Right, Louis, Drop the Gun"), composer, conductor, pianist, arranger and author, educated at DePaul University and the Chicago Musical College. He also studied with Maurice Rosenthal and Leon Benditsky. Jining ASCAP in 1946, he was a conductor, arranger, pianist and writer for children's records, collaborating musically with his wife, Lucile Johnson, and with Paul Tripp. He wrote the album "Songs from Birthday House". His other popular-song compositions include "I'm in a Lazy Mood", "Troubadour's Serenade", "The Song I Sing", "Woodland Reverie", "Freedom Road", "Dance of the Bobby Sox Doll", "Calling Winds", "Sagebrush Serenade", "Cara Cara, Bella Bella", "Little Mr. Big", "Billy on a Bike", "The Cuckoo who Lived in a Clock", "Merry-Go-Round" and "Little Switch Engine".