Randy Edelman

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Paterson, New Jersey, USA
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Married = Jackie DeShannon (3 June 1976— )
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Occupation = Composer, conductor
Instrument = Piano
Genre = Film score
Years_active = 1973—

Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American film and TV score composer.

Biography

Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before heading to New York where he played piano in Broadway pit orchestras. He produced several solo albums of songs (some of which were later recorded by The Carpenters ("I Can't Make Music," "Piano Picker," and "You"), Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton-John and others) before moving to Los Angeles. It was there where Edelman started to work in TV and film scoring.

Musical scores

In the mid 1980s, Edelman wrote the theme to, and scored many episodes of "MacGyver", a popular television series starring Richard Dean Anderson.

During the 1980s and early 1990s he also collaborated with Ivan Reitman, producing scores for several of his comedies, including "Ghostbusters II", "Twins", "Angels in the Outfield", and "Kindergarten Cop". He wrote the theme to the 1973 movie "Executive Action" which put forward a fictional version of some conspiracy theories concerning the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.

He also produced the scores for the 2008 film ""

cores reused elsewhere

While some of the films scored by Edelman were not commercial successes, the music was often reused elsewhere. Themes he wrote for "Dragonheart", "", "Gettysburg" and other films have been widely used in TV advertising, film trailers, and during the Academy Awards. In particular, the rousing yet heartwarming theme of "Dragon", featured in "The Premiere Of THE BIG BOSS", and "The Dragon's Heartbeat" have become synonymous with tear-jerking films of bittersweet yet triumphant rises to glory, featuring prominently in trailers of films like "Forrest Gump", "The Truman Show", "In Love and War" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" film. Themes from his score for "Come See The Paradise" have been used in film trailers more than cues from any other film soundtrack. [cite web |url=http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/frequent|title= Top 100 Frequently Used Cues |publisher=soundtrack.net|accessdate=2007-08-14]

NBC Sports

His music from "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." is featured during NBC's Olympic Games coverage when announcing upcoming events. In addition, it was used during NBC's coverage of the 1997 World Series. In the 1990s, Edelman composed the popular theme music for NBC's NFL telecasts. [ [http://www.ilovewavs.com/TV/Sports/TV%20Theme%20-%20NBC,%20NFL.wav 1995-1997 "NFL on NBC" Theme] ]

Hit records

Edelman has also achieved chart success with several songs: [UKChartHits|2665]
*"Concrete and Clay" (March 1976) - cover of the hit for British pop group Unit 4 + 2, #11 in the UK singles chart.
*"Uptown Uptempo Woman" (September 1976) - #25 in the UK singles chart
*"You" (January 1977) - #49 in the UK singles chart
*"Nobody Made Me" (July 1982) - #60 in the UK singles chart

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0006055|name=Randy Edelman
* [http://www.randyedelman.com Official web site]