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John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy , horror , science fiction , thriller , fantasy and action-adventure .
- John Debney Produced The Soundtracks For The 1993 Disney Movie and 2022 Sequel
- Who Really Wrote The ‘Hocus Pocus’ Song ‘Come Little Children’?
- ‘Come Little Children’ Appears in ‘Hocus Pocus’ and ‘Hocus Pocus 2’
Debney is the musical mind behind the Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 soundtracks. The American composer started his career in the early ’80s writing music for various series and films, including several Disneyprojects. His notable works from the decade include the Fame series, the Police Academy franchise, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, and Young Riders. T...
Debney is credited with producing the score for Hocus Pocus, including the song “Come Little Children.” But he didn’t write that song. According to writer D. Melhoff, when he tried to find the writer and composer of “Come Little Children” so he could reference it in a book, he discovered the song was written by Brock Walsh and composed by James Hor...
1993’sHocus Pocusintroduced Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson — three witches resurrected after hundreds of years. The sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, brings the Sanderson sistersback to Salem. And like before, they hope to secure immortality and eternal youth through innocent children’s souls. Over ...
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John Debney. Composer: The Jungle Book. Throughout his legendary career, composer John Debney has seen himself in equal demand for holiday classics such as Hocus Pocus and Elf, tentpoles like Iron Man 2, The Jungle Book, and The Greatest Showman, and the powerful epic The Passion of the Christ, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.
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ScoreCues presents essential works composed for film, television, and video game scores by John Debney. Reverse chronological order. Updated regularly. Subsc...
John Cardon Debney is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His work encompasses a variety of mediums and genres, including comedy, horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy and action-adventure. He is a long-time collaborator of The Walt Disney Company, having written music for their films, television series, and theme parks. He has also collaborated ...
Working with composers John Debney, Trevor Morris, Hector Pereira, Wilbert Roget II, and Sarah Schachner, Jeff has served as an orchestrator on feature films, video games and tv shows such as Madden, Call of Duty, Anthem, Playmobil:The Movie, Show Dogs, Emerald City and My Little Pony.
Interview. John Debney is probably one of the busiest composers working today. To date, he has composed music for over 40 films and television shows since 1987, including 7 coming out in 1999 alone! Some of his biggest scores include Cutthroat Island, Liar Liar, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and his extensive work on "SeaQuest DSV".
