Dave Frishberg
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Dave Frishberg is an American composer. He has become best known for writing and performing his own songs including favorites "My Attorney Bernie", "Do You Miss New York", "Slappin' the Cakes on Me" and "Van Lingle Mungo."
Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Diana Krall, Stacey Kent, John Pizzarelli and Mel Torme are some of the performers who have chosen to record his music. Dave also wrote "I'm Just A Bill" about the forlorn legislative writ in the ABC Schoolhouse Rock! series subsequently transformed into the popular revue "Schoolhouse Rock Live" available with MTI.
Frishberg is also a pianist who played with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, among others.