George Cates

Date of birth : 10/19/1911

Date of death : 05/12/2002

City of birth : New York City, New York, USA

Composer, conductor, arranger and producer, educated at New York University. He was a record producer for Dot and Coral, and a longtime music supervisor for the Lawrence Welk programs. Joining ASCAP in 1954, he collaborated musically with Mort Greene, Paul Francis Webster, and Irving Taylor. His popular-song compositions include "Fuzzy Wuzzy".