Composer, songwriter ("Melody of Love", "Skokiaan", "More", "A Worried
Man", "On Top of Spaghetti"), author and singer, educated at City
College of New York. He played tuba and string bass in military and
jazz bands, and sang in choirs in New York and Philadelphia, eventually
turning to folk-singing and making his Town Hall debut in New York in
1948. He also appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the White
House, and gave a number of children's concerts besides making many
recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1949, his other popular-song compositions
include "Old Soldiers Never Die", "Don't Weep, Don't Mourn, Don't
Worry", "A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Any More", "Care", "Ballad for the
Babe", "Mama Guitar" and "Till We Two Are One".
His recording of his novelty song "On Top of Spaghetti" was on
Billboard magazine's pop music chart for 9 weeks in 1963, peaking at
#14.
Along with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White and Burl Ives, Mr. Glazer was a Big City folk singer, one of a loose coalition of performers who made folk music a national phenomenon in the 1940s, presaging its commercial popularity in the 1960s.