Joseph Harnell (August 2, 1924 – July 14, 2005) was an American composer and arranger.
His father was a vaudeville performer who also played in jazz and klezmer ensembles. Harnell began playing piano at age six and was performing in his father's ensembles by age 14. He attended the University of Miami on a music scholarship in the early 1940s, and in 1943 joined the Air Force, playing with Glenn Miller's Air Force Band. He studied with Nadia Boulanger when stationed in Paris and then under William Walton at Trinity College of Music in London. After his discharge in 1946, he studied at Tanglewood under Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
Eschewing the art-music world, Harnell sought work in pop and jazz, working as a for-hire pianist after returning to New York City in 1950. He played in Lester Lanin's band at this time and found work as an accompanist for singers such as Judy Garland, Maurice Chevalier, and Marlene Dietrich. From 1958 to 1961, he was Peggy Lee's full-time accompanist and arranger for the albums Anything Goes:Cole Porter and Peggy Lee & the George Shearing Quartet. In 1962, he was hurt in a car crash, and while he recovered, Kapp Records asked him to work on writing potential hits in the then-hot genre of bossa nova. Harnell's biggest success was with his arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon", which was a hit in the US in 1963 (number 14 Pop, number 4 AC) and which won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The song also peaked at number 6 in Harnell's hometown, on WMCA in New York, on January 16, 1963. The album from which it was taken went to number 3 on the Billboard 200. Harnell would go on to release nearly 20 easy listening albums, on Kapp, Columbia, and Motown among others.
Harnell was also an integral part of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as the "house pianist" on many episodes. Often at the end of a show Shore would gather round Harnell at the piano and she and her guests that evening would make requests of him for a song they wanted to sing. Some of those guests were John Raitt, Gisele MacKenzie, and very often, Janet Blair. It was a low key and warm way to bring the show to its conclusion. The show ran on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963.
Starting in 1964, Harnell worked with Grey Advertising as a jingle writer, and from 1967 to 1973, he worked as musical director of The Mike Douglas Show. In 1973, Harnell moved to Hollywood and worked in film score and television composition, composing for The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk including "The Lonely Man Theme" with which all episodes of The Incredible Hulk ended, playing over David Bruce Banner walking down yet another lonely road, Alien Nation, and V, for which he received an Emmy nomination in 1983. Harnell also wrote the signature tune introducing United Artists movies in the 1980s, as well as the theme music for the NBC daytime soap Santa Barbara. Following this he became a faculty member at USC's Thornton School of Music as an instructor in film score composition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Harnell
His father was a vaudeville performer who also played in jazz and klezmer ensembles. Harnell began playing piano at age six and was performing in his father's ensembles by age 14. He attended the University of Miami on a music scholarship in the early 1940s, and in 1943 joined the Air Force, playing with Glenn Miller's Air Force Band. He studied with Nadia Boulanger when stationed in Paris and then under William Walton at Trinity College of Music in London. After his discharge in 1946, he studied at Tanglewood under Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
Eschewing the art-music world, Harnell sought work in pop and jazz, working as a for-hire pianist after returning to New York City in 1950. He played in Lester Lanin's band at this time and found work as an accompanist for singers such as Judy Garland, Maurice Chevalier, and Marlene Dietrich. From 1958 to 1961, he was Peggy Lee's full-time accompanist and arranger for the albums Anything Goes:Cole Porter and Peggy Lee & the George Shearing Quartet. In 1962, he was hurt in a car crash, and while he recovered, Kapp Records asked him to work on writing potential hits in the then-hot genre of bossa nova. Harnell's biggest success was with his arrangement of "Fly Me to the Moon", which was a hit in the US in 1963 (number 14 Pop, number 4 AC) and which won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The song also peaked at number 6 in Harnell's hometown, on WMCA in New York, on January 16, 1963. The album from which it was taken went to number 3 on the Billboard 200. Harnell would go on to release nearly 20 easy listening albums, on Kapp, Columbia, and Motown among others.
Harnell was also an integral part of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as the "house pianist" on many episodes. Often at the end of a show Shore would gather round Harnell at the piano and she and her guests that evening would make requests of him for a song they wanted to sing. Some of those guests were John Raitt, Gisele MacKenzie, and very often, Janet Blair. It was a low key and warm way to bring the show to its conclusion. The show ran on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963.
Starting in 1964, Harnell worked with Grey Advertising as a jingle writer, and from 1967 to 1973, he worked as musical director of The Mike Douglas Show. In 1973, Harnell moved to Hollywood and worked in film score and television composition, composing for The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk including "The Lonely Man Theme" with which all episodes of The Incredible Hulk ended, playing over David Bruce Banner walking down yet another lonely road, Alien Nation, and V, for which he received an Emmy nomination in 1983. Harnell also wrote the signature tune introducing United Artists movies in the 1980s, as well as the theme music for the NBC daytime soap Santa Barbara. Following this he became a faculty member at USC's Thornton School of Music as an instructor in film score composition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Harnell
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Joseph Harnell (2 de agosto de 1924 - 14 de julio de 2005) fue un compositor y arreglista estadounidense.
Su padre era un artista de vodevil que también tocaba en conjuntos de jazz y klezmer. Harnell comenzó a tocar el piano a los seis años y a los 14 ya actuaba en los conjuntos de su padre. Asistió a la Universidad de Miami con una beca de música a principios de la década de 1940, y en 1943 se alistó en las Fuerzas Aéreas, tocando con la Air Force Band de Glenn Miller. Estudió con Nadia Boulanger cuando estuvo destinado en París y luego con William Walton en el Trinity College of Music de Londres. Tras su licenciamiento en 1946, estudió en Tanglewood con Aaron Copland y Leonard Bernstein.
Tras abandonar el mundo de la música artística, Harnell buscó trabajo en el pop y el jazz, trabajando como pianista de alquiler tras regresar a Nueva York en 1950. En esta época tocó en la banda de Lester Lanin y encontró trabajo como acompañante de cantantes como Judy Garland, Maurice Chevalier y Marlene Dietrich. De 1958 a 1961, fue el acompañante a tiempo completo de Peggy Lee y arreglista de los álbumes Anything Goes:Cole Porter y Peggy Lee & the George Shearing Quartet. En 1962, sufrió un accidente de coche y, mientras se recuperaba, Kapp Records le pidió que trabajara en la composición de posibles éxitos en el género de la bossa nova, entonces de moda. El mayor éxito de Harnell fue su arreglo de "Fly Me to the Moon", que fue un éxito en Estados Unidos en 1963 (número 14 Pop, número 4 AC) y que ganó un premio Grammy a la mejor interpretación instrumental pop. La canción también alcanzó el número 6 en la ciudad natal de Harnell, en la WMCA de Nueva York, el 16 de enero de 1963. El álbum del que procede llegó al número 3 del Billboard 200. Harnell llegaría a publicar casi 20 álbumes de música fácil, en Kapp, Columbia y Motown, entre otros.
Harnell también formó parte de The Dinah Shore Chevy Show como "pianista de la casa" en muchos episodios. A menudo, al final de un programa, Shore se reunía alrededor de Harnell en el piano y ella y sus invitados de esa noche le pedían una canción que querían cantar. Algunos de esos invitados eran John Raitt, Gisele MacKenzie y, muy a menudo, Janet Blair. Era una forma discreta y cálida de concluir el programa. El programa se emitió en la NBC desde octubre de 1956 hasta junio de 1963.
A partir de 1964, Harnell trabajó con Grey Advertising como escritor de jingles, y de 1967 a 1973, trabajó como director musical de The Mike Douglas Show. En 1973, Harnell se trasladó a Hollywood y trabajó en la composición de bandas sonoras para el cine y la televisión, componiendo para La mujer biónica, El increíble Hulk, incluyendo "El tema del hombre solitario" con el que terminaban todos los episodios de El increíble Hulk, que sonaba sobre David Bruce Banner caminando por otro camino solitario, Alien Nation, y V, por la que recibió una nominación al Emmy en 1983. Harnell también compuso la melodía de presentación de las películas de United Artists en la década de 1980, así como el tema musical del culebrón diurno de la NBC Santa Barbara. A continuación, pasó a formar parte del profesorado de la Escuela de Música Thornton de la USC como instructor de composición de partituras de películas.
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A1 Un Poco Rio (Little Rio) 2:23
A2 Guantanamera 2:40
A3 So Soon 3:01
A4 Serenata 2:35
A5 So Nice (Summer Samba) 2:31
A6 Music To Watch Girls By 2:33
B1 Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune) 2:37
B2 A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) (From Un Homme Et Une Femme) 2:55
B3 Blame It On The Bossa Nova 2:48
B4 Bermuda Concerto 2:40
B5 Spanish Flea
Label: Columbia – CS 9499
Released: 1967
Genre: Latin
Style: Bossanova
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