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Randy Edelman

 
Artist: Randy Edelman
 
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John Frizzell, Mark McKenzie
  • Active: '70s, '80s, '90s
  • Genres: Soundtrack
  • Instrument: Producer, Piano, Keyboards
  • Representative Albums: "Gettysburg," "Kindergarten Cop," "Leave It to Beaver"

Biography

Prolific film composer Randy Edelman was born June 10, 1947, in Patterson, NJ, and learned to play piano by ear and wrote his first songs at age 14. He briefly studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati before quitting school to pursue a career in music, eventually landing an arranging gig at King Records. In 1970, Edelman relocated to New York to work as a staff writer at CBS Records, concurrently playing keyboards in the Broadway production The Boyfriend. He issued his self-titled debut pop album in 1972, followed later that year by his first film score, Outside In. Around that same time, he settled in Los Angeles and became the regular opening act for the Carpenters, who covered his "Piano Picker" on their A Song for You LP. While solo records like 1973's Laughter & Tears and 1975's Prime Cuts earned Edelman a devoted cult following in Britain, back home he remained best-known as a songwriter, with artists as diverse as Patti LaBelle, Olivia Newton-John, and Bing Crosby recording his material; in 1976, Barry Manilow reached the Top Ten with Edelman's "Weekend in New England." During the early '80s, he began writing for television, most notably scoring the hit MacGyver, as well as a series of TV movies; his first major film work, on the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Danny DeVito comedy Twins, followed in 1988. After a flurry of comedic projects including Ghostbusters 2, Kindergarten Cop, and My Cousin Vinny, Edelman earned his first Academy Award nomination for his work on the 1992 historical action-drama The Last of the Mohicans. He later earned an Emmy Award for his contributions to NBC's coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympics. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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Actor: Randy Edelman
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  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Shanghai Noon, While You Were Sleeping, My Cousin Vinny
  • First Major Screen Credit: Snatched (1972)

Biography

A prolific composer of pop songs, movie scores, and other forms of music, Randy Edelman has also recorded albums and performed throughout Europe and Australia. His first film score was for the drama Outside In (1972). He has gone on to score a wide variety of films, but he seems to specialize in comedies like Beethoven (1992) and action-adventures such as Anaconda (1997). Edelman has often worked on films produced by Ivan Reitman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
 
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Randy Edelman

Background information
Born June 10, 1947 (1947-06-10) (age 62)
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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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, "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.

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 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Scores 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, 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]

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. 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]

Hit records

Edelman has also achieved chart success with several songs:[3]

  • "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

  1. ^ "Top 100 Frequently Used Cues". soundtrack.net. http://www.soundtrack.net/trailers/frequent. Retrieved on 2007-08-14. 
  2. ^ 1995-1997 NFL on NBC Theme
  3. ^ UK Chart Stats

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