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Randy Edelman
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Randy Edelman (born 10 June1947) is a well known film and TV score composer born in Paterson, New Jersey.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 References
- 3 External links
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Biography
Edelman attended the Cincinnati Music Conservatory, 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"), 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.
While some of the films scored by Edelman were not commercial successes, the music was often reused elsewhere. Themes he wrote for Dragonheart, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Gettysburg and other films have been widely used in TV advertising and film trailers. In particular, the rousing yet heartwarming theme of Dragon, entitled "The Dragon's Heartbeat", has become synonymous with tearjerking films of bittersweet yet triumphant rises to glory, featuring prominently in trailers of films like Forrest Gump, The Truman Show and that of the first Harry Potter film.
Also, a theme he wrote for the Japanese internment film
Come See the Paradise became the defacto music for "dramatic" trailers in the 1990s. His music from
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is featured during
NBC's
Olympic Games coverage when announcing upcoming and the following day's 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.
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References
- ^ http://www.ilovewavs.com/TV/Sports/TV%20Theme%20-%20NBC,%20NFL.wav