Pete King (composer)

{{Short description|American composer and arranger (1914–1982)}}

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C. Dudley "Pete" King (August 8, 1914 – September 21, 1982) was an American music composer and arranger of easy listening music and film soundtracks.

He was born in Ohio and studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory and the University of Michigan.{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceagepop.com/kingpete.htm |title=Pete King |publisher=Spaceagepop.com |accessdate=February 27, 2012}} He was elected president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1967.{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|author=Billboard|title=King's NARAS Program in Gear|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ycEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6|date=October 7, 1967|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=6}}

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. With his own Pete King Chorale he recorded, among other songs, "Hey, Look Me Over".

He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.