During World War II, Malvin performed with Glenn Miller as part of The Crew Chiefs. Recordings of his performances with Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band were released as V-Discs. After
World War II and Glenn Miller's death, Malvin became heavily immersed in the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s, being involved in everything from children's music, to the beginnings of rock and roll, to jingles for commercials. In the late 1950s he became involved in television as the music arranger for
The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and he contributed to
Jimmy Dorsey's final recording sessions, including the #2 hit "
So Rare". He later worked with "
The Carol Burnett Show" doing special musical material for which he won two
Emmy Awards; one for a parody of the
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. The
Broadway musical, "
Sugar Babies", for which Malvin received a Tony nomination, was inspired by his composition
"Let Me Be Your Sugar Baby". ==Compositions==