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Score Productions

{{Short description|American musical production company}}

Score Productions is an American musical production company specializing in background music and themes for television shows. Started in 1963 in a brownstone townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan by music producer Bob Israel,{{Cite news|last=Clark|first=Kenneth|date=November 20, 1986|title=Composer's tunes go unnoticed daily on TV|work=Chicago Tribune|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-11-20-8603270358-story.html|access-date=June 25, 2020}} Score has created some of the most recognizable tunes in America — most identifiable by just a few notes.[https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/20010418_Bob_Israel_living_an_American_dream_in_studio Bob Israel Living 'An American Dream' in Studio|BMI]

Among the composers who worked for Score Productions are Charles Fox, Edd Kalehoff, Walt Levinsky, Arthur B. Rubinstein, Dick Lieb, Michel Camilo, Chuck Loeb, Billy Barber, Irving "Benny" Robbin, Charles Gross, Deborah Hurwitz, Glen Daum, Birch Johnson, Joe Kurasz and Les Fradkin.

Legacy

One of the Score-produced compositions, "Come on Down", also known as the theme song from The Price Is Right, would eventually become a number one hit on Billboard{{'}}s Dance Club Songs Chart for Crystal Waters in 2001. The single also marked the first time that a television theme song (and one that came from a game show) reached number one on a Dance chart, and the first to feature lyrics.[https://www.allmusic.com/album/come-on-down-mw0000657382 Come on Down - Crystal Waters|AllMusic]

Selected credits of Score Productions music composers

  • Billy Barber - All My Children, American Chronicles
  • Bob Israel – ABC World News Tonight Theme, All My Children, Another World, The Doctors, The Red Hand Gang.
  • Michel Camilo – Goodwill Games, One Life to Live, Match Game (1998), Press Your Luck (1983), Loving, High Rollers (1987), The All New Let's Make A Deal (1984)
  • Charles Fox – ABC's Wide World of Sports, Love, American Style, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Monday Night Football, To Tell the Truth (1969), The Match Game, What's My Line?, Wonder Woman, Rhyme and Reason
  • Charles Gross – The Doctors
  • Edd Kalehoff – The Price Is Right, Concentration, Tattletales (1974), Trivia Trap, Card Sharks (1986)
  • Walt Levinsky – Family Feud, 20/20, Password Plus, The Price Is Right (1976 music package)
  • Dick Lieb and Walt Levinsky – Swiss Family Robinson, WWII, A G.I. Diary, Search and Rescue, Dr. Simon Locke, Police Surgeon, Lovers and Friends
  • Les Fradkin – One Life to Live, Capitol, Loving, various game shows
  • Chuck Loeb – CNN Main Theme and various CNN cues/shows
  • Arthur B. Rubinstein – The Doctors, Another World, The Red Hand Gang (theme), Sportsworld, WWII-A GI Diary, All-New Beat the Clock, Strange Paradise, The Starlost, Norman Corwin Presents, Harvey, The Price, All the Way Home, Look Homeward Angel
  • Paul Epstein - Body Language, Classic Concentration, Hit Man
  • Gary Anderson - Child's Play, Super Password
  • Joe Kurasz - Guiding Light

Credits of Score Productions

The Walt Disney Company (includes ABC)

NBC

HBO

  • HBO Feature Presentation theme

CNN

RTL Group/Fremantle (including Goodson-Todman assets)

CBS

Warner Bros. Discovery (includes Lorimar and Telepictures)

OTHER

INTERNATIONAL

References

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External links

  • [https://archive.org/details/ScoreProductions Score Productions Production Music on Internet Archive]

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Category:Theme music

Category:Television music

Category:American television composers

Category:American companies established in 1963

Category:Mass media companies established in 1963