“In those days, jazz — or in those days, rhythm and blues was the big thing — represented the seamier side of life,” Mr. Steiner told National Public Radio interviewer Nina Totenberg in 2002.

Does Angus really drink himself silly? Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. “I remember them all very well, remember them playing chamber music at our house, remember Bernard Herrmann pounding on the piano, Elmer [Bernstein], Jerry Goldsmith, Earle Hagen, Henry Mancini, Leonard Rosenman, Nathan Van Cleave, it goes on and on,” she said. Television and film music composer Fred Steiner, creator of the bold and gritty theme for the “Perry Mason” TV series and one of the composers of the Oscar-nominated score for “The Color Purple,” died of undisclosed causes June 23 at his home in the Mexican state of Jalisco. "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is the most performed holiday song of all time, according to a Top 30 list released by the performance rights organization ASCAP in December 2014. Did they name a song after a Tolkien book? Rance Allen, whose Rance Allen Group drew upon contemporary sounds for such 1970s hits as “Ain’t No Need of Crying” and “I Belong to You,” died Saturday. Steiner contributed music to more than two dozen episodes of the original “Star Trek” TV series, music that resurfaced in 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and, most recently, for “Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II.” He also provided music, although uncredited, for “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi” in 1983. He began playing the piano at 6 and took up the cello at 13. The serious, classical music aspect of Mr. Steiner’s life was a counterweight to the lighthearted character of one of his more widely recognized compositions, the jaunty Broadway-style theme he wrote for “The Bullwinkle Show” — a later incarnation of “The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle” — and the charged-up, forthright Dudley Do-Right theme used in the series. "Uncle John's Band" by the Grateful Dead was the first time the phrase "God Damn" appeared in a commercially-released song. This song is about the fictional lawyer Perry Mason. Among his early assignments for CBS-TV were “Man Against Crime,” “The Danny Thomas Show” and “Gunsmoke.”. Billy Tubbs, coach who turned Oklahoma into a basketball powerhouse, dies. One of the busiest composers working in Hollywood in the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Steiner also crafted music for “Gunsmoke,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Star Trek,” “Have Gun, Will Travel,” “Rawhide,” “Hogan’s Heroes” and other TV series. Cecilia Chiang, pioneer of Chinese cuisine, dies at 100, Cecilia Chiang operated the Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco for decades and inspired generations of cooks, Actor Eddie Hassell, 30, killed in Texas shooting, police say.

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