Cory Charles Lerios (born February 12, 1951 in Palo Alto, California) is an American pianist and vocalist noted for his fast and flowing style of playing. He is one of the founding members of the platinum-record selling rock and roll band Pablo Cruise, and for the past 30 years has scored music for film and television.
Cory Lerios got his first break into the music industry with the San Francisco Bay area band Stoneground in 1971. At the time, Stoneground was signed with Warner Bros., and Cory was only 20 years old. After leaving the band in 1973, Cory, along with fellow Stoneground members Steve Price and David Jenkins, went on to form Pablo Cruise. In 1975, Pablo Cruise released its first album under A&M Records simply entitled Pablo Cruise. The band went on to sell millions of records, but in 1986 after completing several national tours and releasing 7 albums in all, the band split. Being one of the primary songwriters for Pablo Cruise, (Love Will Find A Way, Whatcha Gonna Do?) Cory decided to try his hand at composing for film and television, with his first major production being One Crazy Summer, a 1986 comedy starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, Bobcat Goldthwait, Curtis Armstrong, and Joel Murray. After his composition on One Crazy Summer, Cory partnered with John D'Andrea and went on to start an in house music production studio called Lerios D'Andrea Music Works based in Los Angeles. Together they wrote and produced a number of themes, songs, dramatic and comedic underscores for some of TV's most popular shows Baywatch (300 episodes), Days of Our Lives, Diagnosis: Murder, Max Headroom, and Land Before Time), amongst others. In 2012 Cory executive produced a live DVD/CD for Pablo Cruise entitled "It's Good To Be Live!" released through Sony Entertainment. Pablo Cruise released another live CD through Sony Entertainment in 2013. Currently Cory has been scoring and executive producing the music for the international TV series SAF3 as well as continuing to tour with the original members of Pablo Cruise. In 2015 Cory released an EP, If I Could Change Anything It Would Be You!, under the name Cory Charles.
2014/15 SAF3 (TV series) Episodes, Music Supervision2013/14 SAF3 (TV series) Episodes2013 "Men At Work"2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Awards Programme2013 "Bench" International Promos2011 Yu-Gi-Oh! Main Title Theme & Episodes2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Awards Programme2009 Hope For Children, Documentary2009 Terrell Lloyd, Documentary2009 Geortrax Animated Series Theme/Pilot2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards Theme2008 The Land Before Time2006 Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman2004/5 ToddWorld2004 The Best TV Shows That Never Were2004 Hot Wheels AcceleRacers2004 E! Diary of An Affair2003 Baywatch: "Hawaiian Wedding"2001 The Mummy: The Animated Series2000 Murder in the Mirror2000/2001 Intimate Portrait (TV series)1999 The Test of Love (movie)1999 Diagnosis: Murder (series)1999 A Secret Life (movie)1998 A Marriage of Convenience (movie)1998 Martial Law (TV series)1998 Baywatch: "White Thunder at Glacier Bay" (movie)1997 Baywatch: "Assault on Devil's Island" (movie)1997 Steel Chariots1997 In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (movie)1996 Gone in a Heartbeat (movie)1996 Fall Into Darkness (movie)1996 Angel Flight Down1995/96 Flipper (series)1995/96 Baywatch Nights (series)1995 Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise (movie)1993/94 Mighty Max (TV series)1993/94/95 Days of Our Lives (daytime soap opera)1994 Deadly Vows (movie)1990 E.A.R.T.H. Force (series)1989/2001 Baywatch. All 11 seasons (theme & 300 episodes)1987 Max HeadroomHard CopyStreet Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)Thunder in Paradise (1993) (V)The Tower (1993) (TV)Boiling Point (1993/I)Beyond the Law (1992)The Entertainers (1991) (TV)Child's Play 3 (1991)Night Angel (1990)Police Story: Burnout (1988) (TV)One Crazy Summer (1986)Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) (as a member of Stoneground)CBS LOGO: theme: CBSCBS PRODUCTIONS LOGO: theme: CBSSTARZ LOGO: theme: STARZDIRECT T.V.: DIRECT T.V.TNT SUNDAY CLASSICS MOVIE: theme: Turner BroadcastingTNT FEATURE FILMS: series & theme: Turner BroadcastingRAVE: Arts & EntertainmentCBS TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIES: theme: CBSCBS SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIES: theme: CBSA & E MYSTERY MOVIES: A&E NETWORK16th ANNUAL CABLE ACE AWARDS: TNT: Producer: David LawrenceSan Disk LOGO:Theme: CommercialStoneground 3, Stoneground - Warner Bros. RecordsLast days of the Filmore, Various Artists w/ Stoneground - Fillmore RecordsNadia's Themes, Various Artists - A&M RecordsGeorge Benson, "Teaser" - Warner Bros. RecordsThe Neville Brothers, "Forever Tonight"Melba Moore and Ben E. King, "A Test Of Time"Santana, "She Can’t Let It Go"Christina Milian "Call Me, Beep Me"Smokey Robinson "It's a Colorful World"Plan 9, "Whatcha Gonna Do?"Geoff ByrdWhitney HoustonKenny GSantanaThe Neville BrothersNarada Michael WaldenSmokey RobinsonAwards and nominations
Daytime Emmy awards:
Won, 1997, Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "Days of Our Lives" (shared with Ken Corday, Brent Nelson, Dominic Messinger, John D'Andrea, Amy Burkhard Evans, and Stephen Reinhardt)Emmy Nomination, Max Headroom, 1987Emmy Nomination, Days of Our Lives ’94 ‘95Emmy Nomination, Days of Our Lives ’93 ‘94Emmy Honors, Jay Meisel DocumentaryASCAP awards:
Won, 1996, Top TV Series for "Baywatch"Won, 1997, Top TV Series for "Baywatch"Won, 1997, Most Performed UnderscoreBMI awards
BMI Most Performed Song, Whatcha Gonna Do? Pablo CruiseBMI Most Performed Song, Love Will Find a Way Pablo CruiseBMI Most Performed Song, Cool Love Pablo CruiseBMI Most Performed Song, Don’t Want to Live Without It Pablo CruiseTELLY AWARD: "Hope For Children"
