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Oh yes, he composed great stuff, most I can remember is from "Kojak" and "Columbo". I think it's time to force Universal to open their vaults for the great music from the 1960's, '70's & '80's. Not only Goldenberg deserves a CD-set, but also Dave Grusin, Oliver Nelson, Mike Post, Pete Carpenter and many, many more.
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It's a daunting task to list all the great TV stuff Goldenberg did in 70's and 80's. As I said on Facebook, while I really pine for a "Goldenberg at Universal" box set it would leave off such freelance gems as THE GLASS HOUSE and DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK among many others.
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Writer Gary Gerani posted on The Night Gallery page on Facebook that composer Billy Goldenberg has died at the age of 84 in New York City. He was certainly the King of Television Movies and Shows.
He was also Bea Arthur's pianist
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"There is a CD of Around The World In 80 Days TV Mini-Series... I don't have it, nor have I ever heard it.
I do. Excellent, one of my first TV mini-series as a teenager that made a very strong music impression. Bought the CD first chance I had and it plays often!
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Are you sure that's not Jerry Fielding? Striking similarity.
Thor,
It's Billy Goldenberg.
James
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I think its Fielding...in one of Billy's shirts!
Talented man, for sure. Id forgotten he did Domino Principle as someone here pointed out. Another top score.
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Aug 6, 2020 - 7:16 PM
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darthbrett
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Also both of whom worked a lot on Columbo! (I think Pat Williams is the only composer to score both episodes of the original 70s run as well as the reboot the following decade.)
Nope, Dick DeBenedictis actually scored a bunch of episodes from both runs of Columbo as well as scoring the most episodes for the '90s run (8 episodes to Williams' 5). Dick scored a whopping 11 from the '70s series while Patrick scored 4. Combined Dick scored 19 total and Williams scored 9 total.
Here's the breakdown of composers for Columbo
1968-1978 SERIES
11 Dick De Benedictis (Etude in Black, Dagger of the Mind, The Most Crucial Game, Lovely But Lethal,
Candidate for Crime, Any Old Port in a Storm, Swan Song, Double Exposure,
An Exercise in Fatality, Troubled Waters, Old Fashioned Murder)
10 Bruno Segall (Negative Reaction, A Deadly State of Mind, Playback, Last Salute to the Commodore,
Now You See Him, Identity Crisis, By Dawn's Early Light, A Case of Immunity,
A Matter of Honor, Fade In to Murder)
06 Billy Goldenberg (Ransom for a Dead Man, Murder by the Book, Suitable for Framing, Lady in Waiting,
A Stitch in Crime, Publish or Perish)
04 Patrick Williams (Try & Catch Me, Make Me a Perfect Murder, How to Dial a Murder, The Conspirators)
03 Gil Melle (Death Lends a Hand, Dead Weight, Short Fuse)
01 Dave Grusin (Prescription: Murder)
01 Oliver Nelson (The Greenhouse Jungle)
01 Jeff Alexander (Forgotten Lady)
01 Robert Prince (Bye Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case)
01 Jonathan Tunick (Murder Under Glass)
1989-2003 SERIES
08 Dick De Benedictis (A Bird in the Hand..., It's All in the Game, Butterfly in Shades of Grey, Undercover,
Strange Bedfellows, A Trace of Murder, Ashes to Ashes, Murder with Too Many Notes)
05 Patrick Williams (Murder Smoke & Shadows, Sex & the Married Detective, Murder: A Self Portrait,
Murder in Malibu)
03 John Cacavas (Columbo Goes to the Guillotine, Grand Deceptions, Caution: Murder Can Be
Hazardous To Your Health, No Time to Die)
02 James Di Pasquale (Uneasy Lies the Crown, Columbo Goes to College)
02 Steve Dorff (Murder of a Rock Star, Death Hits the Jackpot)
01 David Michael Frank (Agenda for Murder)
01 Richard Markowitz (Rest in Peace Mrs. Columbo)
01 Dennis Dreith (Columbo Cries Wolf)
01 Ken Jordan & Jim Latham (Columbo Likes the Nightlife)
** note **
The episodes Blueprint for Murder, Requiem for a Falling Star, The Most Dangerous Match, Double Shock, Mind Over Mayhem and A Friend in Deed all used tracked music and did not contain any new score cues.
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Kinda sad to note that this thread has slipped down the pages so quickly. When I started getting into film music, circa 1968-69, Billy Goldenberg's music was all over the TV then, one of Stanley Wilson's roster at Universal when they were churning out TV Movies and series by the dozen. It seemed obvious to me then that Mr Goldenberg would move on to feature film work and become one of the most sought-after composers. But it didn't quite happen! Sure, he got the chance - but the films he did turned out (mostly!) to be flops. Red Sky at Morning, The Grasshopper, The Domino Principle. Luckily for us they all had albums but the films were failures.
Really, the television work was where he excelled. Queen of the Stardust Ballroom has to be one of the best TV Movies ever made, with all the talents involved at the peak of their powers, none more so than the collaboration between Billy Goldenberg and Alan & Marilyn Bergman. In addition, so many memorable TV themes - Kojak, Harry-O, Banacek.
Was genuinely saddened to learn that he had passed on.
JMM.
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Malone didn't have anything to do with Red Sky at Morning (no news of a CD reissue yet), but Leonard Slatkin conducted the orchestra for the album recording of that score (apparently because Billy wanted to do the piano solos). He was pretty sure Billy himself conducted the original film recording, which I hope can be premiered on CD alongside the LP recording some day.