 His most famous song is arguably "Cruella de Vil" from the 1961 Disney animated feature "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", which is claimed to have been written in homage to Thelonious Monk's "Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are".That same year, he also wrote the story and new lyrics to sixteen tunes for the film "Babes in Toyland".In later years, he wrote songs, stories, and did voice-over work for the PBS children's series "Big Blue Marble", as well as working on a number of projects for television commercials.