Jimmie Haskell

Jimmie Haskell , born Sheridan Pearlman (born November 7, 1926 in Brooklyn , New York City , United States , † February 4, 2016 in Laguna Niguel , California ), was an American arranger , conductor , composer and film composer .

Live and act

Born in New York, Sheridan Pearlman came to Los Angeles with his parents at the age of nine and made contact with the music industry there as a young adult. He played in studios and nightclubs on the Sunset Strip and soon got to know film people. The musical specialty of Jimmie Haskell, as he called himself from now on, was playing the accordion , which he also performed during performances with the band "The Bachelors". Soon Haskell was hired for musical arrangements of recordings for the Imperial Records label .

In his function as arranger, orchestra player, composer, musical director and conductor, Haskell was to work with numerous greats in the American music and show business over the next five decades, including Ricky Nelson , Sheryl Crow , Steely Dan , Barbra Streisand , Elvis Presley (his US version of Muss I denn zum Städtele , as Wooden Heart ), Blondie , Tina Turner , The Bee Gees , Chicago , Bobby Darin , Crosby, Stills and Nash , The Doobie Brothers , José Feliciano , Barry Manilow and Michael Jackson . Haskell won a total of three Grammy Awards for his collaborations with Simon & Garfunkel ( Bridge Over Troubled Water ) , Chicago (If You Leave Me Now) and Bobbie Gentry (Ballad of Billie Jo), as well as a Primetime Emmy Award (for the television film See How She Runs , 1978). In addition, Haskell won three Clio Awards, two Addy Awards, and a Cable Car Award. He composed, arranged, conducted and / or produced music albums that have been awarded gold or platinum 135 times.

Jimmie Haskell first came to the film industry in 1956. His first activities were unnamed accordion contributions to the two major productions Vincent van Gogh - A Life in Passion and Around the World in 80 Days . In 1960 he took over the unnamed orchestration of Dimitri Tiomkin's composition for John Wayne's large-scale western epic Alamo . The following year, Haskell delivered his first own film composition for the B-film production Blond, sweet and very naive . Since then, Haskell has worked regularly as a composer for film and television; initially (1963 to 1968) for five years he was the resident composer for the "old-fashioned westerns" from the A. C. Lyles production, which was due to the participation of well-known old stars (including Rory Calhoun , Howard Keel , Jane Russell , Barton MacLane , Corinne Calvet , Dana Andrews , Richard Arlen , John Agar and Lon Chaney junior ) showed a certain basic sluggishness.

Haskell's later compositions also supplied mainly B-films such as the animal horror film Rabbits , the wilderness drama When the North Wind blows or the thrillers Deadly Games and Kick or Die . Haskell's cinematic composition oeuvre comprises around 80 cinema and television films. In addition, he provided the music for an estimated 445 episodes of television series or series. He provided individual music tracks for other films and TV works and worked on the orchestration, for example in the comedies The Cactus Blossom and The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Plane or in Steven Spielberg's black drama The Color Purple , (partly unnamed) sometimes as an arranger or as a conductor. Shortly before the end of the millennium, Jimmie Haskell ended his film and television composition work with the TV manga series Silent Möbius .

Filmography

only as a composer for cinema and television films

1961: Blond, sweet and very naive (Love in a Goldfish Bowl)
1963: City without a Sheriff (The Gun Hawk)
1963: Surf Party
1964: Sweden - just for love (I'll Take Sweden)
1964: Black spores (Black Spurs)
1964: Revolvers don't argue (Town Tamer)
1965: The Apache (Apache Uprising)
1965: Wyoming-Bravados (Waco)
1966: Sheriff Johnny Reno (Johnny Reno)
1966: The Bloody West (Red Tomahawk)
1967: Texas Desperados (Hostile Guns)
1967: The Lawless Three (Fort Utah)
1967: The Arizona Bushwackers
1967: The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
1968: Shadok (Buckskin)
1968: Rogue's Gallery
1969: Alarm start for squadron Braddock (The Thousand Plane Raid)
1970: Christmas Is
1970: Zachariah
1971: Josie's Castle
1972: The Honkers
1972: Rabbits (Night of the Lepus)
1969–1973: Doris Day in ... (TV series)
1973: Outrage
1973: Kesse Mary - Crazy Larry (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry)
1974: When the North Wind Blows
1974: Easter Is
1974–1976: In the Land of the Sour ( Land of the Lost , TV series)
1976: Dr. Shrinker (TV series)
1977: Angels in Hell (Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell)
1977: Death Game
1977: Joyride
1978: A Christmas to Remember
1978: See How She Runs
1979: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
1979: A Man Fights Alone (The Jericho Mile)
1979: Guiana - Cult of the Damned (Guyana, el crimen del siglo)
1979: Mirror, Mirror
1980: Secret Code Chaos (For the Love of It)
1980: The Jayne Mansfield Story (The Jayne Mansfield Story)
1981: Crash Island
1981: The Blonde Passion (Hard Country)
1981: The Star Maker
1982: Portrait of a Showgirl
1983: What is Dixie doing in the monastery? (Dixie: Changing Habits)
1983: Carpool - a money sack on the move (Carpool)
1983: Jeanny - obsessed with jealousy (Jealousy)
1984: The Sharks of Las Vegas (The Vegas Strip War)
1985: City Hawk
1983–1986: 9 to 5 (TV series)
1987: Cathy
1987: Kick or Die
1988: Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis
1989: She's Back
1989: On the Cross (Jake Spanner, Private Eye)
1991: A Salute to America's Pets
1994: The Zone
1998: Silent Möbius (Manga series)

Web links

Official website
Biography on spaceagepop.com
Obituary for London Jazz News
Jimmie Haskell in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Year of birth according to legacy.com
^ Year of birth according to Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: Das große Lexikon der Filmverbindungen, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 223.
↑ Although most sources give the year 1936, the year 1926 seems much more likely given his Vita - film activities since 1956.
↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 590.

personal data
SURNAME	Haskell, Jimmie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pearlman, Sheridan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American arranger, conductor, composer and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH	4th February 2016
Place of death	Laguna Niguel , California

[1] Year of birth according to legacy.com

[2] Year of birth according to Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: Das große Lexikon der Filmverbindungen, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 223.

[3] Although most sources give the year 1936, the year 1926 seems much more likely given his Vita - film activities since 1956.

[4] Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 590.