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Earle Hagen was an American composer who created music for films and television. He is best known for his themes for The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, The Andy Griffith Show and others.
May 28, 2008 · Earle H. Hagen, a onetime big-band trombonist who wrote some of the most famous theme songs in television history, died Monday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., near Palm Springs. He was 88 and...
Earle Hagen was a composer and actor who wrote music for more than 3,000 TV shows and movies. He was also the whistler in The Andy Griffith Show theme and a trombonist for CBS and 20th Century-Fox.
From the tuneful whistle for The Andy Griffith Show, to the big-band rhythms of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the jazzy suspense of I Spy, and the noirish saxophone of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Earle Hagen wrote some of television’s most enduring musical themes.
May 28, 2008 · The man who wrote TV theme songs for The Andy Griffith Show, I Spy and The Mod Squad has died. Earle Hagen, a former big-band trombonist, also wrote the jazz standard "Harlem Nocturne." He was 88.
Jul 9, 2019 · Learn about the life and work of Earle Hagen, who wrote iconic themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and many others. He was a pioneer of original music for TV and a Hall of Fame inductee.
Earle H. Hagen. Composer. 8 June 1919 to 25 May 2008. Although he provided orchestrations for films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Let’s Make Love (1960), Hagen was more prolific composing for high profile television series.
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