Born in New York City. American songwriter ("Witchcraft", "Big Spender", "Hey, Look Me Over"), composer and pianist, educated at the High School of Music and Art and the New York College of Music. He also studied with Rudolph Gruen (on scholarship) and Adele Marcus. He gave his first piano recitals at age six in Steinway Hall and Town Hall in New York. Later he led his own trio and soloed in night clubs and hotels, and on television, and he made many records. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for Wildcat, Little Me, and Sweet Charity, and wrote songs for Murray Anderson's Almanac. He also wrote music for industrial films and productions. He joined ASCAP in 1953, and his chief musical collaborators included Carolyn Leigh, Joseph Allen McCarthy, Bob Hilliard, Peggy Lee, and Dorothy Fields. His other popular-song compositions include "Paris Is My Old Kentucky Home", "Why Try to Change Me Now", "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life", "The Riviera", "Isn't He Adorable?", "Early Morning Blues", "Playboy Theme", "I Walk a Little Faster", "Firefly", "You Fascinate Me So", "On Second Thought", "Tall Hopes", "El Sombrero", "One Day We Dance", "The Best is Yet to Come", "The Other Side of the Tracks", "I've Got Your Number", "Real Live Girl", "Here's to Us", "It Amazes Me", "That's My Style", "A Doodlin' Song", "When in Rome", "Pass Me By", "Pussycat", "Then Was Then, Now Is Now", "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This", and "Where Am I Going?". In films and television, his other score and songs credits are as follows: "Playboy's Penthouse" (1959, TV, theme song), FATHER GOOSE and THE TROUBLEMAKER (both1964), THE ART OF LOVE (1965), THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972, title song), GYPSY IN MY SOUL (1976, TV), GARBO TALKS (1984), POWER (1986), BARNUM! (1986, TV), FAMILY BUSINESS (1989), YOURS FOR A SONG: THE WOMEN OF TIN PAN ALLEY (1999, TV), WHAT WOMEN WANT (2000, song "The Best Is Yet To Come") and songs used in the Broadway and TV productions of Fosse (2001). Coleman died in Manhattan on November 18, 2004, of an apparent heart attack.  Nominated for Music (Best Socre of a musical picture original or adaptation) 1969: SWEET CHARITY 1 nomination