Name Joe Renzetti Role Film composer | Movies The Buddy Holly Story | |
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Albums Poltergeist III, Basket Case 2: Also Featuring Music From "Frankenhooker", Child's Play Awards Academy Award for Best Original Song Score Nominations Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score Similar People Gary Sherman, Frank Henenlotter, Steve Rash, Gary Busey, Kenneth Gamble | ||
Dead buried soundtrack suite music by joe renzetti
Joe Renzetti (born January 4, 1941) an American Academy Award-winning film composer, and session musician.
Contents
- Dead buried soundtrack suite music by joe renzetti
- Joe renzetti maintheme frankenhooker ost
- Early life and education
- Career
- List of selected works
- Awards
- References
Joe renzetti maintheme frankenhooker ost
Early life and education
Joseph Renzetti was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and studied composing and orchestrating under Nicholas Flagello at the Manhattan School of Music. He studied guitar with Dennis Sandole, Joe Sgro, Sal Benigo, Lenny Payton, and Frank Tacconelli a student of the Eddie Lang tradition of guitar playing.
Career
In the early 1960s, as a result of Dick Clark and American Bandstand, originating from Philly, Cameo-Parkway records came into existence. Renzetti became Cameo Records' house guitarist, and played on the hits "Let's Twist Again", " Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time"", "South Street", The "Limbo Rock", "Palisades Park, and "Tallahassee Lassie".
Fascinated by the advances in recording technology, and the profession of arranging for records, in 1963 Renzetti moved to New York. There he arranged "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, "98.6" by Keith, "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" by Jay & the Techniques, and "Mandy" by Barry Manilow.
In 1973 Renzetti moved to Hollywood, and was called to arrange the music for the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story. This iconic movie garnered Joe Renzetti an Academy Award for Best Adaptation Score. Although the music was that of Holly's, Renzetti taught the actors to play their instruments, sing the songs from scratch, and act as a performing group. When they were ready as a group, they were filmed in live performances, this had never been done on film before.
He also scored Elvis (1979), Fatso (1980), The Exterminator (1980), Dead & Buried (1981), Vice Squad (1982), Poltergeist III (1988), the original Child's Play (1988), Lisa (1990), Frankenhooker (1990), Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3 (1990/1), an episode of Tales from the Crypt, and Wired Angel (1999). Renzetti scored the TV series Missing Persons. Joe Renzetti scores films, TV, composes works for orchestra, chamber groups, and solo artists, and is currently scoring episodes of Tom Holland's Twisted Tales for FearNet.