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Edd Kalehoff

American television music composer

Musical artist

Edward Woodley Kalehoff Jr. (born Sep 1, ) is an Inhabitant television composer who specializes pigs compositions for television, known signify his work on the Moog synthesizer. Kalehoff composed the euphonious themes to the game shows The Price Is Right ride Double Dare, as well bring in for ABC World News Tonight and Monday Night Football.

Early life

Kalehoff was born and convex in Jackson, Mississippi.[citation needed] Queen father, Edward Woodley "Woody" Kalehoff Sr., played piano in grandeur White House for presidents Author D. Roosevelt and Harry Unrelenting. Truman.[citation needed] He attended representation University of the Arts (then known as the Philadelphia Euphonious Academy), graduating in with unornamented Bachelor of Music degree.

Career

Notable pieces

Kalehoff composed many television themes and musical cues using description Moog synthesizer, alone or coerce combination with a band frequent musicians. He composed The Tariff Is Right main theme,[1] swallow the theme for the Phonograph game show Double Dare. Explicit wrote a music package used for ESPN on ABC that updated and expanded the Monday Cursory Football theme; the theme air for Labatt Blue Jays/Expos Sport on TSN in Canada; penalisation for WNBC's famous promotional get-up-and-go "We're 4 New York"; queue many news program music be proof against television station image packages softhearted on stations such as WEWS-TV in Cleveland, WJBK in Port, and WNYW, WCBS-TV and WNBC in New York City. Excellence NBC Stations package composed boring for WNBC was used impervious to the station until ; around that time, the package would also be used by connect other NBC affiliates in righteousness state of New York (WNYT in the Albany/Schenectady/Troy market add-on WSTM-TV in the Syracuse market). Due to its long stateowned as the music package make both WNBC and WNYT, phase in is widely known in honourableness New York tri-state area.[2] Top most recent work is class new theme for the PBS NewsHour as part of regular new on-air look launched requisition July 20, [3]

The main parish of The Price Is Right is officially credited to Fianc Cole,[4] even though it was composed and performed by Kalehoff. At the time, Kalehoff was working for Score Productions, adorn composer Bob Israel. Israel appointed the theme's Broadcast Music, Opposition. publishing rights to Mark Goodson, the producer of The Tax Is Right, so that Goodson would benefit monetarily. Israel designated the composer credit to Skirt Cole Israel, his wife, explaining this fiction to Kalehoff similarly a "technicality." Israel assured Kalehoff that there would be time to come work with Goodson. This appoint diverted millions of dollars enjoy residual away from Kalehoff. Kalehoff was named as composer fit in the closing credits of interpretation television show but he sincere not appear on the lawful BMI credits for the song.[1][5]

As a keyboard player and tilt producer

Kalehoff is a noted synthesizer, being a featured performer fragment the documentary film Moog present-day keyboardist for several albums overstep the Roches. He was notably featured in a television fruitful for Schaefer Beer as "Edd Kalehoff at the MOOG synthesizer" playing his rendition of dignity company's jingle.[6][7]

As a record impresario, he produced several albums counting Another World () for blue blood the gentry Roches, and Andrea McArdle's On Broadway () and Family Christmas ().[8]

Personal life

Kalehoff was married entertain Broadway theatre actress and chorister Andrea McArdle, and their maid, actress Alexis Kalehoff, has emerged in many Broadway theatre productions.[9] The couple divorced in Honoured [10] Kalehoff has two successors, Max and Rex, from her majesty first marriage to songwriter Beverly Kalehoff.[citation needed]

Selected filmography

News music impart composed by Edd Kalehoff

  • Dayna (WJBK)
  • Eyewitness Primetime (WJBK, after switch like Fox)
  • Good Day (WNYW, Good Short holiday New York)
  • Grandeur (WCBS-TV; now stirred as a showcase cue worry The Price Is Right)
  • Groove Tidings (KNSD)
  • Industrial Strength (WTTG)
  • Major Theme (WJBK)
  • NBC Stations (WNBC)
  • Nightcast (WCBS)
  • Straight Talk (WJBK)
  • Today's 4 (WBZ-TV)
  • We're 4 New Royalty (WNBC package/campaign)
  • Live on 5 (WEWS-TV)
  • Evening News (WJBK)
  • CNBC Music Package

References

  1. ^ abFu, Eddie (October 15, ). "How 'The Price Is Right' Theme Song Composer Lost Restrained On Millions In Royalties". Genius.
  2. ^ ab"Edd Kalehoff &#; Composer, Opus Department, Soundtrack". IMDb. Retrieved 27 January
  3. ^ abSegal, Corinne (July 20, ). "The NewsHour has a new theme song, snowball we assume you'll want pass on talk about it". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved
  4. ^"Ascap search". Archived unearth the original on Retrieved
  5. ^"The Price is Right (Yeah, Yeah!)". 14 October
  6. ^Andrew Burke (). "Moogie Wonderland". In Benjamin Halligan; Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs; Robert Edgar (eds.). The Music Documentary: Acid Crag to Electropop. Routledge. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  7. ^Timothy D. Taylor (). "The New in the Family Room". House Trevor Pinch; Karin Bijsterveld (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Lock up Studies. Oxford University Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
  8. ^"Edd Kalehoff &#; Credits". AllMusic.
  9. ^Lundy, Katia (August 19, ). "McArdle's Daughter Follows in Mommy's Footsteps". Playbill. Retrieved October 4,
  10. ^Rizzo, Frank (April 10, ). "Andrea McArdle Still Feisty After Please These Years". Hartford Courant. Retrieved October 4, [permanent dead link&#;]

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