David Rose

David Daniel Rose was a British-American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His best known compositions were “The Stripper”, “Holiday for Strings”, and “Calypso Melody”. He also wrote music for many television series, including It’s a Great Life, The Tony Martin Show, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, and Highway Patrol, some under the pseudonym Ray Llewellyn.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.