Posted on 07/26/2018 10:45:36 AM PDT by EveningStar
Patrick Williams, who was best-known for his Emmy-winning television music but who was also a renowned and Grammy-winning big-band jazz leader and arranger, died Wednesday morning of complications from cancer at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79.
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination (for adapting opera in “Breaking Away,” 1979), four Emmys (for dramatic music including “Lou Grant,” 1980) and two Grammys (for arrangements including his classic jazz album “Threshold,” 1974) during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
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Streets Of San Francisco had great music.
RIP.
That’s the sound of TV in the 70’s.
I knew it likely had that very obvious liberal bias, but Lou Grant would be a title that I would not mind seeing for the first time in years. Why is it that the stupid channels seem to rerun MASH, Murder She Wrote, Three’s Company, Everybody Loves Raymond, and other ones over and over?
I’m sorry he’s passed but to be honest I can’t “hear” any of those TV themes in my head, even though I watched the shows.
Now Peter Gunn I remember even without having ever seen the show!
Patrick Moody Williams?
Lou Grant was more balanced than one would think given that Ed Asner (who is a truly great actor) is a total socialist.
No Ed is a Communist, he once wanted to make a sympathetic movie about Joe Stalin, you see Ed thinks he was just misunderstood and was a great man. After I read that I could never watch Ed ever again.
Probably rights are cheaper?
No idea other than that.
Remington Steele shoes up on ME-TV for a few episodes then always gets replaced by the awful Diagnosis Murder.
Loved the song Shades. He made some great music. RIP.
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You mean "Red Ed"?
RIP.
Yes, Red Ed Asner.
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