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Profile of Randy Edelman
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Randy Edelman |
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10th June 1947 |
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Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Randy Edelman (born 10 June 1947) is a well known film and TV score composer born in Paterson, New Jersey.
Biography
Edelman attended the Cincinnati Music Conservatory, 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 Barry Manilow, 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 1980's, Edelman wrote the theme to, and scored many episodes of MacGyver, a popular television series starring Richard Dean Anderson.
During the 80's and early 90's he also collaborated with Ivan Reitman producing scores for several of his comedies including Ghostbusters II, Twins and Kindergarten Cop (the last two featuring the unlikely but very successful comic pairing of Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger). 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.
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 and film trailers.
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