Miles Goodman

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BIRTHDAY

August 27, 1949

Los Angeles, CA

DIED

August 16, 1996

RECENT CREDITS

'Til There Was You (FILM) May. 30, 1997

Larger Than Life (FILM) Nov. 1, 1996

Sunset Park (FILM) Apr. 26, 1996

Dunston Checks In (FILM) Jan. 12, 1996

Getting Even with Dad (FILM) Jun. 17, 1994

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BIOGRAPHY

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Composer and music producer Miles Goodman scored many films, notably the toe-tapping tunes from Footloose (1984) and Little Shop of Horrors (1986). As a producer, Goodman specialized in light jazz and classics. Los Angeles-born and raised, Goodman majored in theater at Antioch College. It was his cousin Johnny Mandel who led Goodman to a music career. Goodman studied under Albert Harris during the early '70s and cut his composer's teeth as an orchestrator for a few of Mandel's scores, including Being There (1979). He officially launched his career in 1977, scoring the critically acclaimed but short-lived NBC series James at 15. On this program, he created his signature technique of combining songs with original music. By 1991, after over a decade of scoring an average of four major feature films a year, Goodman decided to take a break and so became a record producer. His first production featured harmonicist Toots Thielemans working with a variety of famed Brazilian artists on The Brazil Project (1992). Goodman died at age 47 on August 16, 1996, following a heart attack in his Los Angeles home.

~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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