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- Birth nameMorton S Garson
- Composer, songwriter ("Our Day Will Come") and arranger, educated at Juilliard and NYU. He served in the Special Services during World War II, and then was a pianist and arranger for dance orchestras, and composer, conductor and accompanist to Doris Day, Patti Page, and Arthur Prysock. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his chief musical collaborators included Bob Hilliard and Earl Shuman. His other popular-song compositions include "Left Right Out of Your Heart", "My Summer Love", "Young Wings Can Fly", "The World of Lonely People", "Baby Come Home", "Theme for a Dream", "Starry-Eyed" and "Au Revoir".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- Electronic music.
- His world-famous zodiac themed albums.
- Composed the music for the 1975 Grammy award-winning recording of "The Little Prince" featuring Richard Burton.
- Brother of Eddie Garson.
- His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants.
- [about engineer Robert Moog, inventor of the first commercially available electronic music synthesizer] I met him, got interested in his invention and immediately put it in "Zodiac" to add a sweetness to the sound.
- [Interiew in the "Los Angeles Times", on his score for a short film seen on CBS' coverage of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight] The only sounds that go along with space travel are electronic ones. The Apollo film shows different facets of the flight--blast-off, separation of the stages of the rocket, scenes of the moon at close range, of the astronauts playing games in the ship and of earthrise. [The music] has to carry the film along. It has to echo the sound of the blast-off and even the static you hear on the astronauts' report from space. People are used to hearing things from outer space, not just seeing them. So I used a big, symphonic sound for the blast-off, some jazzy things for the zero-G game of catch, psychedelic music for a section that uses negatives and diffuse colors on shots taken inside the ship, and a pretty melody for the moon. After all, it's still a lovely moon.
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