Скачать или смотреть The most famous TV Theme song composer you probably never heard of. Earle Hagen

If you watched TV in the 60s the following facts are probably true.
1. You know every song in this video
2. You have no idea who composed these songs.
All of the songs on this video have no lyrics, but you most likely remember them note by note. Even though there is no apparent pattern to them, they were all composed by the greatest TV composer you never heard of: Earle Hagen.
Earle Hagen was born on July 9, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for the TV theme songs on this video, and many many more. He died on May 26, 2008 in Rancho Mirage, California.
He composed music for more than 3,000 TV-show episodes and TV movies.

He played with top bands of the swing era, and wrote one of the first textbooks on composing for movies.

He is the whistler heard in the theme music of one of his most famous TV theme songs of all time (with some help by his 11-year-old son snapping his fingers )..

He was one of the most influential composers in TV history, formally recognized for his landmark work when the Television Academy inducted him, posthumously, into its Hall of Fame in 2011. He was only the second musician to be so honored. (Leonard Bernstein was the first)

Left home at the age of 16 to play trombone with the big bands .

After recovering from a near-fatal illness, he worked as a staff trombonist for CBS, until his enlistment in the Army Air Corps in 1942 (stationed in Santa Ana with the Radio Production Unit). During the 1940s and early 1950s he worked as arranger and conductor for 20th Century-Fox under the auspices of Alfred Newman. He left in 1953, encouraged by producer Sheldon Leonard to pursue a career as a writer for television.

Marlo Thomas once said, “More people remember his theme songs than even the names of the people who were in the shows!”

Added Stacy Keach, “He was warm and kind and gracious and funny. He could work in so many different styles, just extraordinary versatility and variety. And he was a genius in his ability to musically capture the essence of what was on the screen. He was a giant.”