 He also recorded three albums as a singer-pianist during the 1960s.Since that time he became most widely known as an arranger, for a very wide range of performers including Lou Rawls, Count Basie, O.C.Smith, Frank Sinatra, the Supremes, Donna Loren, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Gladys Knight, Melinda Marx, Al Wilson, the Pump Girls, and the Little Tots.