Name Pete King | Role Music composer | |
Died September 21, 1982, Newport Beach, California, United States Music director The Family Jewels, Which Way to the Front?, The Last of the Secret Agents?, The Pied Piper of Hamelin Similar People Jerry Lewis, Blossom Dearie, Bill Richmond | ||
Pete King (August 8, 1914, Ohio – September 21, 1982) was an American music composer and arranger of easy listening music and film soundtracks. He studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory and the University of Michigan.
He was elected president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1967.
King conducted orchestras for a variety of Hollywood films including adapting the works of Edvard Grieg for The Pied Piper of Hamelin and two comedies The Family Jewels and The Last of the Secret Agents. King's arrangements and cues were heard often in the American television series Happy Days and The Brady Bunch.
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