Harry Lubin

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Harry Lubin (March 5, 1906 – July 21, 1977) was an American composer, arranger, and pianist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the second season of the television series The Outer Limits and One Step Beyond.

Biography

Lubin's professional career spanned over 40 years, as a composer and conductor in many Broadway productions and recordings, the concert stage, in radio, television and motion pictures. He worked with many top names in entertainment, including Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Robert Weade, Selma Kaye, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Fran Warren, and Connie Haines.{{cite web |url=http://www.apmmusic.com/g-l/harry-lubin |title=Harry Lubin Profile |website=APM Music |access-date=December 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314211739/http://www.apmmusic.com/g-l/harry-lubin |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |url-status=dead }}

= Early years =

Lubin began his career in 1925, as piano accompanist for basso Feodor Chaliapin. By age 20, he became the musical director of the Irving Place Theatre in New York. He left Irving Place to become one of the youngest musical directors in the foreign department of the Aeolian, Vocalian, and later, the Brunswick Phonograph Company.{{cite web |url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w64f37vs |title=Harry Lubin Biographical Notes |website=SNAC |access-date=December 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302034825/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64f37vs |url-status=live |archive-date=March 2, 2020}}

= Theater and film =

Lubin composed and arranged for numerous productions including The Eternal Mother in 1928 and Max Gordon's Making Mary in 1932. He worked with Samuel Roxy Rothafel at his theatre, and later at NBC. He joined the Advertisers Broadcasters Company as musical director in 1938, working on up to 28 shows each week during his seven-year tenure, returning to Broadway in 1942 to compose the music for Sidney Kingsley's play The Patriot.

= Radio and television =

In January 1945, Lubin became the musical director of the radio program Glamour Manor, starring Kenny Baker.{{Citation needed |date=March 2025}} His work on television included being musical director for Those Two on NBC (1951-1953).{{cite news |last1=Panitt |first1=Merrill |title=Show Called Those Two Is Tragedy in Pairing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-merrill-panitt/101825464/ |access-date=March 21, 2025 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=November 28, 1951 |page=36|via = Newspapers.com }} He was musical director for the first Pinky Lee Show, which he stayed with until the program went off the air in 1953.

Lubin composed "Letter to Loretta", the theme for The Loretta Young Show,{{cite news |title=TV Mail Bag |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/168504602/ |access-date=March 21, 2025 |work=The Kansas City Star |date=April 14, 1957 |page=8 G|via = Newspapers.com }} for which he was musical director.{{Citation needed |date=March 2025}} He also composed the theme for Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.

Lubin composed music for the sci-fi television programs, One Step Beyond and The Outer Limits,{{cite news |last1=Whitaker |first1=William |title=Contemporary Music Claims Hollywood as 'Home' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/abilene-reporter-news/168512071/ |access-date=March 21, 2025 |work=Abilene Reporter-News |date=September 12, 1982 |page=29|via = Newspapers.com }} where he pioneered an effective combination of orchestra, theremin and female voice.{{Citation needed |date=March 2025}} Varèse Sarabande released the album "One Step Beyond" (STV 81120), with music from the soundtrack of that program.

Music publisher CPM (formerly Carlin Recorded Music Library, now part of Warner/Chappell Production Music) acquired Lubin's publishing company, Harrose, in 2005.