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- Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
- Genres: Soundtrack
- Instrument: Producer, Piano, Keyboards
- Representative Albums: "Gettysburg," "Kindergarten Cop," "Leave It to Beaver"
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| Discography: Randy Edelman |
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| Background information | |
| Born | June 10, 1947 Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| Genre(s) | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Years active | 1973— |
Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American film and TV score composer.
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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, "If Love Is Real" from Olivia Newton-John's Olivia Newton-John and others) before moving to Los Angeles. It was there where Edelman started to work in TV and film scoring.
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 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
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, 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. [1]
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. At the end of the 1996 Summer Olympics, it used the closing music of Gettysburg. In the 1990s, Edelman composed the popular theme music for NBC's NFL telecasts.[2]
Edelman has also achieved chart success with several songs:[3]
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