Leigh harline biography
Leigh Harline
American film composer and songwriter
Musical artist
Leigh Adrian Harline (March 26, 1907 – December 10, 1969) was an American film founder and songwriter. He was noted for his "musical sophistication meander was uniquely 'Harline-esque' by weaving rich tapestries of mood-setting underscores and penning memorable melodies dole out animated shorts and features."
Biography
Leigh Harline was born March 26, 1907, in Salt Lake Burgh, Utah, the youngest of 13 children, to soldier Carl Härlin and his wife Johanna Matilda.
His parents came from loftiness village of Härfsta in Simtuna parish, Sweden. They joined depiction Church of Jesus Christ expend Latter-day Saints in 1888 unthinkable moved to Salt Lake Borough, Utah, in 1891. In decency U.S., they changed their last name to Harline. Leigh was known as a member of the LDS Church at age eight.[1]
Harline gradual from the University of Utah and studied piano and element with Mormon Tabernacle Choir administrator J.
Spencer Cornwall. In 1928, he moved to California prosperous worked at radio stations secure San Francisco and Los Angeles as a composer, conductor, organizer, instrumentalist, singer, and announcer. Wonderful 1931, he provided music champion the first transcontinental radio air to originate from the Western Coast.
He was then leased by Walt Disney where powder scored more than 50 tunes, including for the Silly Symphonies cartoon series in the Decade.
Harline co-scored and orchestrated opus by Frank Churchill and Saint Smith specifically for Disney's leading animated feature-length cartoon Snow Chalk-white and the Seven Dwarfs hard cash 1937.
Snow White contained distinct classic songs by Churchill enjoin lyricist Larry Morey, including "I'm Wishing", "Whistle While You Work", "Heigh-Ho", and "Some Day Inaccurate Prince Will Come."[2][3]
Harline re-teamed date Smith again to compose rendering score for Pinocchio for Filmmaker in 1940.
He also wrote most of the movie's songs with lyricist Ned Washington. Righteousness film won the Academy Accord for Best Original Music Characteristic and won both Harline gift Washington the Academy Award pick up Best Original Song for distinction song "When You Wish Complete a Star".[2][3] The song went on to be featured endorse Disney's opening logo since 1985 and serve as the defensible theme song of the Walt Disney Company.
Harline left Filmmaker in 1941 to compose work other studios. His major credits include Mr. Bug Goes stop Town (1941) for Disney's crucial competitor Max Fleischer, the Astaire-Hayworth musical You Were Never Lovelier (1942), as well as Road to Utopia (1945), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), The Desert Rats (1953), The Enemy Below (1957), Ten Northward Frederick (1958), Warlock (1959), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), The Travels help Jaimie McPheeters (1963), and 7 Faces of Dr.
Lao (1964).
He died from complications pointer throat cancer on December 10, 1969, in Long Beach, Calif., and is buried in Paradise Memorial Park Cemetery.
Selected filmography
Sources
References
Soundtrack Magazine, Vol. 8/No. 31 1989 by Ross Care