Harvey Brownstone Interviews Randy Edelman, Renowned Film Score Composer & Songwriter
Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Randy Edelman, Renowned Film Score Composer & Songwriter
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s guest, Randy Edelman, is a renowned, multi-award winning composer, musician, producer and singer-songwriter, whose body of work is truly monumental.
As a solo artist, he’s recorded 16 albums and had numerous hit singles including “Uptown Up-tempo Woman”, “Concrete and Clay” and “Nobody Made Me”. But most of his classic songs became huge hits for some of the greatest music stars of all time. Everyone from Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Shirley Bassey, to Petula Clark, the 5th Dimension, and Kool and the Gang, have recorded his songs.
Some of his biggest hits include “Weekend in New England” by Barry Manilow, “I Can’t Make Music” by The Carpenters, “Isn’t it a Shame” by Patti LaBelle, “Down in the Everglades” by Willy Nelson, “If Love is Real” by Olivia Newton-John, “Blue Street” by Blood, Sweat and Tears, “The Laughter and the Tears” by Dionne Warwick, and of course, “Sunny Days”, recorded by his mega-talented wife, Jackie DeShannon.
And if that weren’t enough, our guest is also one of the most highly acclaimed composers for movies and television, having written over 100 soundtracks for movies, including “My Cousin Vinny”, “The Mask”, “Ghostbusters 2”, “Twins”, “Kindergarten Cop”, “Six Days Seven Nights”, “Dragonheart”, “Beethoven”, “Anaconda”, “Diabolique”, “Gettysburg”, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story”, and “Last of the Mohicans”. Some of the TV shows and series he’s scored include “MacGyver”, “Backdraft 2” for Netflix, and “Citizen X” for HBO. And believe me, I’m just scratching the surface of this man’s compositions.
He’s received some of the most prestigious awards including an Emmy Award, 13 BMI Awards including their highest honor, the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement, the Composer and Lyricist’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. In addition, he received nominations for a Golden Globe Award AND a BAFTA Award for “Last of the Mohicans”, and nominations for the Saturn Science Fiction Award for “Dragonheart”, and a Gold Spirit Best Comedy Award nomination for “Leap Year”. His live show entitled “A Life in 80 Minutes” played to sold out audiences and got rave reviews.
He’s written a musical entitled “Short Cut” about the construction of the Panama Canal. And he has a new album coming out, entitled “Can’t Be Killed By Any Conventional Means”. AND his brand new single entitled “Everything is Possible”, on which he collaborated with legendary rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel, is now available for streaming.
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To see more about Randy Edelman, go to:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQPOMaKamdeM6_yfNYIO4yg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3shMd6Vll0mOcviQ3hrk8m?autoplay=true
https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/randy-edelman/3297021
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