Emil Cadkin is an American TV and Movie composer of Russian descent who worked mainly as a production music composer. He worked with Bill Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone

Harry Bluestone

Harry Bluestone ' was a British violinist who composed music for TV and Movie. He was prolific and worked mainly on composing with Emil Cadkin. Earlier on, he was a violinist and freelanced on radio in the 1930s with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and the Dorsey brothers. Some of his compositions were...

 (1907–1992). Some of his music was also featured on APM Music

APM Music

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. Emil composed music for 40s, 50s and 60s films and cartoons including Gumby

Gumby

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Early life

He was born in 1920 in Cleveland to parents who had emigrated from Russia, spent two years in college and was in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 writing and teaching music by the time he enlisted in the Air Force

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 in 1942. His song I Have Everything I Want But You was copyrighted in 1938.

Career

After being discharged, he scored films like “The Big Fix

The Big Fix

The Big Fix is a 1978 film directed by Jeremy Kagan and based on the novel by Roger L. Simon, who also wrote the screenplay. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as private detective Moses Wine and co-starred Susan Anspach and John Lithgow...

” for bottom-of-the-barrel studio PRC.
Emil was an associate editor of ASCAP’s ‘The Score’ when it was created in 1948, and got a job in 1958 as musical director at Ritco Productions, a low-budget company that churned out westerns starring Forrest Tucker. He graduated to become musical director and arranger for Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems. He also got into the business of supplying taped music programming for radio stations, as Billboard of May 23, 1970 reveals he had been appointed music director of popular products (as opposed to classical) for American Tape Duplicators. But he spent a decade writing music along with Bill Loose, which ended up in various libraries, including Capitol Hi-Q. Billboard of December 23, 1967 reveals.

Filmography

• The Big Fix
  The Big Fix
  The Big Fix is a 1978 film directed by Jeremy Kagan and based on the novel by Roger L. Simon, who also wrote the screenplay. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as private detective Moses Wine and co-starred Susan Anspach and John Lithgow...
  
   (1947) (Music Score)
• Three on a Ticket (1947) (Music Score)
• Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958) (Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter)
• The Killer Shrews
  The Killer Shrews
  The Killer Shrews is a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg. It has been released on DVD and is considered a cult classic. It was featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as the first season of the similar show This Movie Sucks!.-Plot:Thorne Sherman and...
  
   (1959) (Music Score)
• The Devil's Bedroom (1964) (Music Score)
• Navajo Run (1966) (Music Score, Screenwriter)