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Sam Winans
Sam Winans is an American film and television composer. He studied music theory in college and privately with Merv Kennedy, a jazz musician, and then studied orchestration with Spud Murphy, creator of the Equal Interval System (EIS). His music has appeared on TV shows such as ''Lizzie McGuire'', ''Harts of the West'', ''Flight 29 Down'', '' Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child'', and ''Kids Incorporated'', and the 1988 animated feature ''Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw''. He also composed the 1995 fanfare of the Buena Vista Television Buena ( ) is a borough in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Atlantic County, is part of South Jersey and the Atlantic City- Hammonton metropolitan statistical area, which in turn is included in the Phil ... logo and reorchestrated once in 2006 and later in 2007. External linksOfficial site* American film score composers American male film score composers American television com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spud Murphy
Miko Stephanovic (August 19, 1908 – August 5, 2005), better known as Lyle 'Spud' Murphy, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger. He studied clarinet and trumpet, and has been recorded playing the oboe, among other jazz instruments. Early life Born Miko Stephanovic to parents in Berlin, Germany, Murphy grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he took the name of a childhood friend. Music career Murphy studied clarinet and saxophone when young, and took trumpet lessons from Red Nichols' father. Murphy worked with Jimmy Joy in 1927–28 and with Ross Gorman and Slim Lamar in 1928. He worked in the early 1930s as a saxophonist and arranger for Austin Wylie, Jan Garber, Mal Hallett, and Joe Haymes, then became a staff arranger for Benny Goodman from 1935–1937. During this time, he also contributed arrangements for the Casa Loma Orchestra, Isham Jones, and Les Brown. From 1937–1940 Murphy led a big band, and from 1938–39 recorded for Decc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie McGuire
''Lizzie McGuire'' is an American television comedy, comedy television series created by Terri Minsky that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001. The series stars Hilary Duff as the titular character who learns to navigate the personal and social issues of her teenage years. Duff also voices an animated version of Lizzie that performs soliloquy, soliloquies to express the character's inner thoughts and emotions. The series also stars Lalaine, Adam Lamberg, Jake Thomas, Hallie Todd, and Robert Carradine. The series concluded on February 14, 2004, after a total of 65 episodes were produced. A feature film based on the series, ''The Lizzie McGuire Movie'', was released in 2003. The series was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 2003 and 2004 for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program, Outstanding Children's Program. The television pilot, pilot received a nomination at the Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Children's Script. The series also received v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harts Of The West
''Harts of the West'' is a humorous contemporary Western TV series about a Chicago family moving to a run-down Nevada ranch. The series consists of 15 hour-long episodes that aired on CBS Saturdays, 9:00 to 10:00 p.m., from September 1993 until June 1994. Much of the series was shot on location in downtown Mayer, Arizona, a small town near Prescott. Clint Black wrote and sang the theme song, ''In a Laid Back Way''. CBS scheduled the series between two popular Westerns: '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' and ''Walker, Texas Ranger'', and it received positive reviews. One reviewer wrote "Don't make the mistake of ignoring ''Harts of the West''", and another stated the show was "One of the fall season's more appealing new series." However, the series left the schedule in January 1994, with a few final episodes being shown in June 1994. Synopsis Dave Hart was a lingerie salesman in Chicago who'd always dreamed of being a cowboy. He had named his three children after Western writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight 29 Down
''Flight 29 Down'' is an American adventure comedy-drama television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow (''Lizzie McGuire'', '' Darcy's Wild Life'') and D. J. MacHale (''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'', The ''Pendragon'' book series). The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull. The third and final season of the series was produced as a four-part film instead of the episodic format of the first two seasons. The film, ''Flight 29 Down: The Hotel Tango'', aired in August 2007. In addition, the series was broadcast Saturday mornings on NBC as part of the Discovery Kids on NBC brand from 2005 to 2006. The show was filmed on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Premise The show follows a group of teens stranded on a South Pacific island in the Federated States of Micronesia after they crash their plane (a De Havilland Heron) in a tropical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tales For Every Child
A fairy (also called fay, fae, fae folk, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, generally described as anthropomorphic, found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often with metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural qualities. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources. Various folk theories about the origins of fairies include casting them as either demoted angels or demons in a Christian tradition, as deities in Pagan belief systems, as spirits of the dead, as prehistoric precursors to humans, or as spirits of nature. The label of ''fairy'' has at times applied only to specific magical creatures with human appearance, magical powers, and a penchant for trickery. At other times, it has been used to describe any magical creature, such as goblins and gnomes. ''Fairy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kids Incorporated
''Kids Incorporated'' (also known as ''Kids Inc.'') is an American children's television program that began production in the mid-1980s and continued airing into the mid-1990s. It was largely a youth-oriented program with musical performances as an integral part of every episode. The pilot episode was shot on September 1, 1983, and the series aired in syndication from September 1, 1984, to December 26, 1985, and on The Disney Channel from November 3, 1986, to January 9, 1994. Reruns aired on The Disney Channel until May 30, 1996. Plot The show revolves around a group of children and teenagers who performed in their own rock group called Kids Incorporated. They struggled to deal with issues ranging from crushes to peer pressure to child abuse, while performing regularly at a local former music club called The P*lace, which was really called The Palace, but the first "a" in the sign burned out and was never replaced. The action took place on abstract "stagey" sets and the plots in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In Film
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * May 25 – '' Rambo III'' is released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film fails to match the box office earnings from '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). * June 26 – Michael Keaton is first announced to play comic book superhero Batman in a forthcoming feature film to be directed by Tim Burton and co–starring Jack Nicholson as Batman's arch nemesis, The Joker. * July 15 – '' Die Hard'' defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influences a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound Puppies And The Legend Of Big Paw
''Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw'' is a 1988 American Animation, animated Musical film, musical adventure film based on the Tonka toy line and the Hanna-Barbera Pound Puppies (1986 TV series), television series of the same name, which aired around the same time. It was directed by Pierre DeCelles, and stars the voices of Brennan Howard, B. J. Ward (actress), B.J. Ward and Tony Longo. This was the only animated feature film produced by Carolco Pictures as well as the first animated film distributed by TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures. ''The Legend of Big Paw'' was the final theatrically released animated feature from the late 1980s to promote a major toy line, a common trend in the American cartoon industry of the time. The film received negative reviews from critics and audiences alike and was a major Box-office bomb, box office bomb, grossing only $586,938 against a $6 million budget. Plot On the way to the museum with his niece and nephew, Whopper tells them about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Disney–ABC Domestic Television (also referred to as ABC Syndication, doing business as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, and formerly named Buena Vista Television) is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of Disney Entertainment, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company. Content distribution responsibilities include domestic television syndication, domestic pay television, Internet and cable video-on-demand (VOD), and pay-per-view outlets. Background ABC's first syndication arm, ABC Films (established in July 1953), was spun off as Worldvision Enterprises (now CBS Media Ventures) in March 1973 due to fin-syn laws (which have since been repealed). Despite having some television shows and feature films, Disney only had two syndicated shows, ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' and '' The Mouse Factory'', prior to the formation of this unit. History Buena Vista Television, Inc. Disney established a television syndication unit in 1985, with Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Film Score Composers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
