Lyricist and composer Irving Gordon wrote many popular tunes recorded by Perry Como, Patti Page, Eddy Arnold, Bing Crosby, and Billie Holiday, but is perhaps best-known as the author of Unforgettable, originally recorded in 1931 by Nat King Cole. Born in Brooklyn in 1915, Gordon studied violin as a child and started songwriting several years later while working at a Catskills resort. By the early '30s, Gordon was writing lyrics for talent agency run by Irving Mills, with whom he co-wrote the lyrics to two 1930s Duke Ellington compositions: Please Forgive Me and Prelude to a Kiss. Other songs by Gordon include Delaware Rollin' Stone, There's No Boat Like a Rowboat, Mama From the Train What Will I Tell My Heart?, and Me, Myself and I. In the mid-'40s, Gordon moved to L.A., where he spent the rest of his life. Irving Gordon got to see a Grammy winning revival of his song Unforgettable by Nat King Cole's daughter Natalie just a few years before his death in December 1996. ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi