ARTHUR BENSON THE JUICE JAM TV

In 1994, GRP was in charge of MCA's jazz operations. Grusin wrote the music for the This Is America, Charlie Brown episode 'The Smithsonian and the Presidency', and two of the cues from the episode 'History Lesson' and 'Breadline Blues' (the latter covered by Kenny G) appear on the tribute album Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown. He composed and performed the theme song for One Life to Live (1968) during the 1984/1985 seasons.

ARTHUR BENSON THE JUICE JAM TV

Grusin's other TV credits include The Wild Wild West (1966), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. He composed music for individual episodes of each of those shows. Elsewhere (1982), and, for Televisa in Mexico, Tres Generaciones (1987). Grusin composed theme music for the TV programs Good Morning World (American TV series) (1967), It Takes a Thief (1968), The Name of the Game (1968), Dan August (1970), The Sandy Duncan Show (1971–72), Maude (1972), Good Times (1974), Baretta (1975), Alice (1976), St. He composed the original opening fanfare for film studio TriStar Pictures. Other film scores Grusin has composed include Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Three Days of the Condor, The Goonies, Tequila Sunrise, Hope Floats, Random Hearts, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Mulholland Falls and The Firm.

Six of the fourteen cuts on the soundtrack from The Graduate are his. He received a Best Original Song nomination for 'It Might Be You' from the film Tootsie. His many awards include an Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, as well as Oscar nominations for The Champ, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Firm, Havana, Heaven Can Wait, and On Golden Pond. Grusin has a filmography of about 100 titles. Their classical crossover albums, Two Worlds and Amparo, were nominated for Grammys. Their album Harlequin won a Grammy Award in 1985. 8 on Billboard 's Top 10 Jazz Artists, at mid-year and at year's end, respectively, based on sales of his album, 'Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story.' įrom 2000-11, Grusin concentrated on composing classical and jazz compositions, touring and recording with collaborators, including jazz singer and lyricist Lorraine Feather and guitarist Lee Ritenour. Grusin composed the musical signatures for the 1984 TriStar Pictures logo and the 1993 Columbia Pictures Television logo. In 1988, he won the Oscar for best original score, for The Milagro Beanfield War. Grusin was the composer for On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982), and The Goonies (1985). In 1978, Grusin founded GRP Records with his business partner, Larry Rosen, and began to produce some of the first commercial digital recordings. Other scores followed, including The Graduate (1967), Winning (1969), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), and Three Days of the Condor (1975). Grusin produced his first single in 1962, 'Subways Are for Sleeping', and his first film score, for Divorce American Style, in 1967. Grusin's teachers included Cecil Effinger and Wayne Scott, pianist, arranger and professor of jazz.

Grusin studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received his degree in 1956. His mother was a pianist and his father was a violinist from Riga, Latvia. Grusin was born in Littleton, Colorado, to Henri and Rosabelle (née de Poyster) Grusin.

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