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
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.
