Buddy Baker (composer)
Norman Dale "Buddy" Baker ( born January 4, 1918 in Springfield, Missouri, † July 26, 2002 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California ) was an American composer.
Life
Norman Dale Baker began at the age of four years playing the piano at the age of eleven and learning the trumpet. His doctorate in music he made at Southwest Baptist University in Missouri. In 1938 he moved to Los Angeles, where he soon. Arranger for the band of the radio program "The Bob Hope Show" began At Los Angeles City College, where he later taught arrangement and composition. One of his former pupil, George Bruns, asked him about 194 to assist in the enormous work that resulted from the film production at the Walt Disney Studios. He started and was able to prove his first composition for a feature film in 1960 with Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus. Until 1983 he remained at Disney and was able to escape into the wilderness, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1973 for Best Film Music, celebrated his greatest achievement.
After his career, he began in 1985 to teach at the University of Southern California, where he founded the USC Film and Television Scoring Program. He also took over again in orders to write for leisure attractions at the Tokyo Disney Resort, Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort the theme music.
On 26 July 2002, died Baker and was survived by his second wife Charlotte, with whom he had been married since 1976, and a daughter from his first marriage, from 1950 to 1957 with the actress BJ Parker, was born.