Hagen, Earle Harry

Hagen, Earle Harry
▪ 2009

      American musician and songwriter

born July 9, 1919, Chicago, Ill.

died May 26, 2008, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
composed some of the most memorable music for television, including the themes for The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Eight Is Enough, Make Room for Daddy, and The Dukes of Hazzard. Hagen won (1968) an Emmy Award for his creative musical arrangements for the espionage series I Spy. Before writing for television, Hagen played trombone and toured with big band legends Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. In 1939, while playing with the Ray Noble Orchestra, Hagen composed “Harlem Nocturne,” later considered a jazz standard. He also wrote several books, including an autobiography, Memoirs of a Famous Composer—Nobody Ever Heard Of (2000), and two textbooks on composing music for films.

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