Composer and songwriter;
Barbra Streisand sang Perry's song, "A Kid Again", during her first TV special,
My Name Is Barbra (1965). Perry also composed scores for L.A. theater productions of "Make a Promise, Keep a Promise" and a musical version of
George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell", in which he starred with
Joyce Bulifant, who would become his wife in 2002.