Years active 1990 - present | Website www.gregoconnor.com | |
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Occupation Composer, songwriter, producer Albums These Here Are Crazy Times Music group Boom Crash Opera (Since 1985) Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Music director Defrost, Pride, This Little Piggy Similar Peter Maslen, Dale Ryder, Richard Pleasance, Fax Bahr, Andrew De Silva | ||
Director randal kleiser grease composer greg o connor madtv visit tfg
Greg O'Connor is a composer and songwriter who has scored over 580 episodes of television and has written numerous featured songs for television series, films and commercials. He is a Primetime Emmy winner and a four-time Emmy nominee. He has also scored radio and web commercials.
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- Director randal kleiser grease composer greg o connor madtv visit tfg
- Greg o connor just to be with you
- Early life
- Career
- Songs
- References
Greg o connor just to be with you
Early life
Greg O'Connor was born in Philadelphia. Greg is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame’s Music School as well as the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program at USC.
Career
Early in his career, O'Connor wrote the score for the Emmy Award-winning Ben Stiller Show and The Sunday Comics on FOX. He also composed the underscore for all three seasons of the hidden camera series The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the ABC Aaron Spelling cop drama 10-8, starring Ernie Hudson and Danny Nucci.
He has written two Billboard Top 20 songs with collaborator James Pankow for the band Chicago, as well as the song "Here With Me" for the Chicago album Stone of Sisyphus. He produced five songs for the Barry Manilow album The Greatest Songs of the Eighties, as well as Manilow's hit Christmas single "Christmas is Just Around the Corner."
Greg was the composer, songwriter and musical director for all 14 seasons of the hit sketch comedy show Mad TV, David Allen Grier’s comedy series Chocolate News, Jeff Foxworthy’s variety show Blue Collar TV and Bob Einstein’s series Super Dave Spike-Tacular. Additionally, he was the musical director and composer for the ABC reality competition series The Next Best Thing.
O'Connor most recently wrote and produced two songs for the film The Greening of Whitney Brown, starring Kris Kristofferson, Aiden Quinn and Brooke Shields, one of which was performed by Shields. He wrote and produced three featured songs for Lori Petty’s directorial feature film debut, The Poker House, as well as two featured songs in the Lego movie Clutch Powers. O'Connor produced and wrote songs for the animated Lionsgate movie Foodfight and produced two songs for Curb Records artist Kimberley Locke on the Camille soundtrack for Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy.
Songs
Dancing in the StormThese Here Are Crazy Times · 1989
Great WallBoom Crash Opera · 1987
Onion SkinThese Here Are Crazy Times · 1989