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Score Productions

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,[1] Score has created some of the most recognizable tunes in America — most identifiable by just a few notes.[2]

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

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. [3]

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
  • 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, To Tell the Truth (1969), The Match Game, What's My Line?, 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, Red Hand Gang, 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

Credits of Score Productions

ABC[2]

NBC

HBO

  • HBO Feature Presentation theme

CNN

RTL Group/Fremantle (including Goodson-Todman assets)

CBS

Turner Broadcasting System

OTHER

INTERNATIONAL

References

  1. ^ Clark, Kenneth (November 20, 1986). "Composer's tunes go unnoticed daily on TV". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bob Israel Living An American Dream in Studio-BMI
  3. ^ Come on Down-Crystal Waters-AllMusic

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