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Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: clemon79 on June 26, 2004, 09:51:42 PM

A site credits it to Robert Israel, but also says that it could also be any of the Score staff composers, including such well known names as Edd Kaheloff and Shiela Cole.

Do we have any idea definitively who the composer was?

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: Chief-O on June 26, 2004, 10:12:23 PM

I think I might have seen Walt Levinsky's name attached to it somewhere. Highly doubt that it's Kalehoff's work, though.

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: AZAndrewG on June 26, 2004, 10:29:37 PM

Pardon my sheer stupidity, but which show featured "Bicentennial Funk"?

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: zachhoran on June 26, 2004, 10:32:13 PM

[quote name=\'AZAndrewG\' date=\'Jun 26 2004, 09:29 PM\'] Pardon my sheer stupidity, but which show featured "Bicentennial Funk"? [/quote]
 ABC Password, circa 1974-75 IIRC.

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: inturnaround on June 26, 2004, 10:50:49 PM

Unfortunately, there's no listing of any song that comes close to that title in either the ASCAP or the BMI listings.

Robert Arnold Israel's listings are huge naturally. He's credited with the Password Plus Theme and Password Plus BG Cues published by Keep Music Co. Keep Music is a fictitious name of Mark Goodson Productions.

The only other name attached to both Password and Keep Music is Robert W. Cobert. Cobert wrote the original Password theme, IIRC.

The Library of Congress' search engine is down for the day now until tomorrow. I'll see if I can't dig up anything else from there.

Well, I tried, at least.

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: ilb4ever2000 on June 27, 2004, 12:23:26 AM

[quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Jun 26 2004, 09:12 PM\'] I think I might have seen Walt Levinsky's name attached to it somewhere. [/quote]
 His name is mentioned here (http://\"http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/password.html\"), but the listing is obviously incorrect.

Title: Who wrote "Bicentennial Funk"?
Post by: uncamark on June 28, 2004, 05:08:33 PM

Levinsky did have a history of working with Score--he was co-credited with Bob Israel for the theme music of the CBS 1977 sitcom "On Our Own," which was produced by David Susskind, Israel's first TV boss.  In 1978, Levinsky was musical director for the daytime Emmys--and when host Richard Dawson came out, you know he conducted the same chart of the "Feud" theme that was used in recording.

He died in 1999--an album catching him as a jazz band leader and clarinetist (http://\"http://www.jazzmanrecords.com/wallevincon.html\") was released last year.