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Another nice interview, Cat. Glad to know that the guy is still around. Years ago, a friend of mine was doing this small-scale film music fanzine and he had a taped telephone conversation with Mr DeBenedictis that I transcribed for him. Inevitably, your interview covered a lot of the same ground, and so the memories came flooding back! - James.
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Completely agree with Den's comment from six years ago (!) I caught by chance an episode from Season 3 of COLUMBO on the telly when back hame in the auld country - "Lovely But Lethal", with Vera Miles, Martin Sheen and Vincent Price. I was saying to my brother (another old hand at this game) - "Oh, that's so definitely Billy Goldenberg". When the name "Dick De Benedictis came up at the end I thought it was a mistake. I think he used some of the same instrumentation in Season 2's "The Most Crucial Game". I'm sure Thomas (member) had some of that up on YouTube - is that a vibraslap doing the percussion? Whatever, great music, and enormously similar to that of Billy Goldenberg. I could investigate the following myself, but I can't be bothered, so I want you all to give me your opinions - How did the scores of Dick De Benedictis evolve throughout the '80s and into the present day? Did he always seem to sound in the shadow of Goldenberg? Did his work lose some of that unique '70s edge when doing stuff like "DIAGNOSIS: MURDER" and the new "PERRY MASON"? I imagine it did, but you tell me. And when can we get the COLUMBO Box Set spotlighting the best music from the series (by De Benedictis, Gil Mellé, Billy Goldenberg and Oliver Nelson)?
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I worked for Dick on Diagnosis Murder, Columbo, and several other TV shows and the sessions where always fun and challenging musically. Such a nice guy. He is so good at what he does.
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Dick DeBenedictis told me in a telephone conversation that Billy Goldenberg was his mentor and owes a lot to him as far as his career went on television.
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