Dave Kahn

Tv composer and arranger Dave Kahn was created Oct 14, 1910, in Duluth, MN. Upon relocating to Hollywood, he got his begin scoring B-films just like the Long Night as well as the Golden Mistress for little self-employed studios before ghosting for composer/publisher Raoul Kraushaar’s Omar Music Services, which offered incidental music to untold amounts of series through the fledgling many years of tv. Although his compositions had been often acknowledged to Kraushaar or the pseudonymous “Melvyn Leonard,” Kahn however earned a status as a flexible and often influenced article writer, and in 1952 he was appointed to focus on the smash Hopalong Cassidy. Stints with Alfred Hitchcock Presents (that he organized Charles Gounod’s theme music “Funeral March of the Marionette”) and General Electric powered Theater adopted, and in 1957 he was designated to create the theme for a fresh family sitcom entitled Keep It to Beaver, and although he was refused usage of the pilot show, the completed result — dubbed “The Plaything Parade” — continues to be a tv traditional; Kahn’s light, exciting theme continues to be the quintessence of suburban bliss, recording youth idylls with unusual precision. In 1959 RCA Victor released an LP compiling Kahn’s function for the detective thriller Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. A jazz-noir edition arranged by Omit Martin afterwards followed. Through the 1960s Kahn tenured as music supervisor for some strike comedies including Petticoat Junction, The Addams Family members, as well as the immortal Green Acres. He afterwards came back to feature film, portion as music editor on images like the 1978 blockbuster Country wide Lampoon’s Animal Home. After time for his greatest achievement via the 1983 reunion film Still the Beaver, Kahn got into retirement.