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Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles.
Oct 16, 2008 · Oct. 15, 2008. Neal Hefti, whose renown as a forward-looking composer and arranger for Woody Herman and Count Basie was probably overwhelmed forever after he went to Hollywood and wrote the...
Jun 10, 2016 · 6.1K. 675K views 7 years ago. Music video by Neal Hefti & his Orchestra and Chorus performing Batman Theme (audio). (C) 2016 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment ...more. Music...
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Oct 15, 2008 · Neal Hefti reached a wide audience through the theme songs he composed for TV's Batman and The Odd Couple. But he was also a talented jazz arranger who got his start with the Charlie Barnett...
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Neal Hefti was a composer, conductor, arranger and trumpeter who wrote the iconic Batman theme song and other popular tunes. He also worked on TV shows, movies and video games, and died in 2008 at age 85.
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- Hastings, Nebraska, USA
- January 1, 1
- Toluca Lake, California, USA
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From an interview of Neal Hefti by Forrest Patten, September 7, 2004, for Journal into Melody: Forrest: And, of course, there was the theme music from the TV series, Batman. Neal: That one came very hard to me. It took me a couple of months to write. I had seen some footage and I knew how outrageous it had to be.
Accomplished composer and arranger who worked with Woody Herman and Count Basie before writing music for movies and TV. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1940s - 1970s. Born. October 29, 1922 in Hastings, NE. Died. October 11, 2008 in Toluca Lake, CA. Genre. Jazz, Stage & Screen, Classical. Styles.
