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Title: RIP Neal Hefti (TV/movie composer), 85
Post by: Wayback on October 15, 2008, 07:55:39 AM

Neal Hefti, TV/movie composer (Batman, Odd Couple), 85.  Also worked with Sinatra, Basie, Harry James, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hefti15-2008oct15,0,2940087.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hefti15-2008oct15,0,2940087.story)

Title: Re: RIP Neal Hefti (TV/movie composer), 85
Post by: RGMike on October 15, 2008, 07:59:53 AM

Quote from: Wayback on October 15, 2008, 07:55:39 AM

Neal Hefti, TV/movie theme composer (Batman, Odd Couple), 85.  Also worked with Sinatra, Basie, Harry James, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403357.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403357.html)

One of the greats. I was watching one of my fave old-school '60s comedies recently, How to Murder Your Wife with Jack Lemmon, and it's one of Hefti's first film scores -- you can hear all the parts he recycled for Odd Couple several years later. Wonderful stuff.