Joseph J. Lilley
Joseph J. Lilley ( born August 16, 1913 in Providence, Rhode Iceland, † January 1, 1971 in North Hollywood, California ) was an American composer, arranger and conductor. He created several well-known musical works for the cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, including compositions for movies such as wedding parade, The shop keeper, Acapulco, Roustabout or Sailor, Ahoy!.
Life and career
Joseph J. Lilley was born in 1913 in Providence,, Rhode Iceland. He studied music at the prestigious Juilliard School and in Nice, France. Since the late 1930s, he worked in Hollywood primarily as musical director, orchestrator and conductor at Paramount, at the beginning of his career only sporadically as a composer and songwriter, later also the works accumulated in this area of activity. Since 1947 he was a member of ASCAP.
At the beginning of the 1940s Lilley wrote the song ( I've Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle which also earned him some popularity as a songwriter.
Since 1944, he also composed the music itself to cinematic productions, beginning with some short films yet an own credits from the movie girl for Hollywood in 1947, then under his own name. It created the music for such films as The Great Lovers, wedding parade, horror Division, comedians children in a shot and 50 dead, Café Europa, Blue Hawaii, Girls! Girls! Girls! or South Sea paradise. Several times he worked under for movies with stars like Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley. In 1960 he was honored along with Nelson Riddle for his work for the musical Li'l Abner by director Melvin Frank with an Oscar nomination.
Lilley has composed the music in his career over 25 Kinofilmem, orchestrated the music for over 80 films, and drove beyond with over 15 productions with additional music for the film without having to find mention in the credits. Together with the composers and arrangers Johnny Green and Conrad Salinger he belonged in the 1950s to the most sought after representatives of his profession in Hollywood. Lilley died on 1 January 1971 after a long illness at the age of 57 years.