Arthur Herzog, Jr. did not write a lot of songs, but he penned some gems with vocalist Billie Holiday--“Don’t Explain” (1939) and “God Bless the Child” (1941) which are inextricably linked to her.  The two also wrote the lesser known song “Somebody’s on My Mind” (1947).

With Irene Kitchings, who was the wife of pianist Teddy Wilson, Herzog collaborated on “Some Other Spring” (1939), “Ghost of Yesterday,” and “I’m Pulling Through” (1940), all of them initially recorded by Holiday.

- Sandra Burlingame