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Michael J. Boddicker is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

, specializing in electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

. Three times N.A.R.A.S. Most Valuable Player "Synthesizer" and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for Imagination from Flashdance in 1984. In recognition of his achievements, contributions and furtherance of electronic music in the recording industry he was presented with an honorary doctorate of music from Coe College in 1991. He has given seminars at such noticeable entities as FIDM, Coe, The International Computer Music Conference and San Jose State University. He was the winner of Keyboard Magazine's Reader's Poll Award - "Best Studio Synthesist" 1986 & 1987 and"Best Session Player" 1988.

Early life and career

Boddicker grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is the second largest city in Iowa and is the county seat of Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River, north of Iowa City and east of Des Moines, the state's capital and largest city...

, and attended The University of Iowa where he studied electronic music, poetry and 20th century composition,. He later went on to The University of Wisconsin for jazz improvisation

Jazz improvisation

Jazz improvisation is an important aspect of jazz. Basically, improvisation is composing on the spot and coming up with melodies off the top of one's head. Traditionally, jazz improvisation was distinguished from other forms of music improvisation by its chordal complexity, often exhibiting ii V...

and UCLA for continued studies in music composition. He quickly found work as a session musician

Session musician

, and by 1977 appeared playing synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

and flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

on albums by many notables such as Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

, Randy Newman

Randy Newman

Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

, The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...

and The Bee Gees.

One of Boddicker's earliest soundtrack collaborations of note was a score for a short experimental claymation film made by Gumby

Gumby

Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...

creator Art Clokey

Art Clokey

Arthur "Art" Clokey was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up...

entitled "Mandala" (released in 1977). Soon after that he entered the mainstream with work on such films as Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

, Battlestar Galacticta and The Wiz

The Wiz

The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...

.

Boddicker officially changed his name to Michael Lehmann Boddicker when he married singer/conductor/actress Edie Lehmann in 1995. They have raised four children together in Los Angeles, CA.

Film music

Among his film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

credits as a composer are the cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is an American spoof science fiction film that was released in 1984. It was directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr...

(1984), the score for The Adventures of Milo and Otis

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

The Adventures of Milo and Otis is a live action Japanese film about an orange tabby cat named Milo and a fawn pug named Otis.The original Japanese version was released on June 27, 1986, and the reworked English language version was released on August 25, 1989.Initially filmed as Koneko Monogatari...

(1986) and additional music for Bulletproof

Bulletproof (1996 film)

Bulletproof is a 1996 American action-comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson, and starring Damon Wayans, James Caan and Jeep Swenson.-Plot:...

(1996),"Bullet Proof" - Additional Music By Michael Boddicker, " "The Magic Egg" -Omni Max Computer Animated Film Original Film Score by Michael Boddicker, "Get Crazy" - Original Music by Michael Boddicker/Soundtrack LP, "Whitewater Summer" Original Film Score by Michael Boddicker, "FX2 " Additional Music By Michael Boddicker and "Starfire" Additional Music by Michael Boddicker. His contributions as a composer can also be heard in "Battlestar Galactica" (the film) additional music by Michael Boddicker, BattleStar Galactica Theme Produced and Arranged by Michael Boddicker, "Free Jack" additional music by Michael Boddicker "Spiritual Network: The Big Eye & Mind Meld", Michael Jackson's "Black or White" (music video) and "HIStory" (music video) video produced by and additional music underscore and "THE FLY" eleven cues to augment or replace the original score.

Artists that have recorded his songs and compositions include Lani Hall

Lani Hall

Lani Hall is an American singer and the wife of Herb Alpert.-Music career:Her first public appearances occurred in Old Town Chicago in early 1966. At one of those performances, she was heard by Brazilian Bossa Nova pianist/bandleader Sérgio Mendes, who happened to be on tour in Chicago...

("Go For The Heart"), Earth Wind and Fire ("Opening Raise Tour"), Patti Austin

Patti Austin

-Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....

("Oh, No Margarita"), Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

("Captain EO & HIStory Unveiling"), Isao Tomita

Isao Tomita

, often known simply as Tomita, is a Japanese music composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements...

's & YMO

YMO

YMO may refer to:* Yellow Magic Orchestra, the Japanese technopop band** Yellow Magic Orchestra , the band's debut album* Moosonee Airport, the IATA airport code...

's Hideki Matsutaki ("Automatic Collect", "Automatic Correct & Plan"), Kitaro

Kitaro

, better known as , is an award winning Japanese musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist who is regarded as one of the pioneers of new age music.-Early life:...

("The Silk Road"), Laura Branigan

Laura Branigan

Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...

(Imagination) and David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff

David Michael Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch...

.

As a session musician he played synthesizer

Synthesizer

on, among others, Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

's This Is It

This Is It (Michael Jackson album)

Michael Jackson's This Is It is a posthumous two-disc soundtrack album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. Released by Epic Records on October 26, 2009, This Is It features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Michael Jackson...

, HIStory

HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is the ninth studio album by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson, released on June 16, 1995 by Epic Records. The majority of the album's tracks were written and produced by Jackson...

, Thriller

Thriller (album)

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's critically and commercially successful 1979 album Off the Wall...

, Bad

Bad (album)

Bad is the seventh studio album by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson. The album was released on August 31, 1987 by Epic/CBS Records, nearly five years after Jackson's previous studio album, Thriller, which went on to become the world's best-selling album...

, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

"P.Y.T. " is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. The original demo version of the song was written by Jackson and Greg Phillinganes. It is the sixth single from Jackson's sixth solo album, Thriller . Quincy Jones passed on the song itself but liked the title and, with James Ingram,...

", Off the Wall

Off the Wall (album)

Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American recording artist Michael Jackson, released August 10, 1979 on Epic Records, after Jackson's critically well received film performance in The Wiz. While working on that project, Jackson and Quincy Jones had become friends, and Jones agreed to...

, Dangerous, Black or White, and We Are the World

We Are the World

"We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World...

; Earth, Wind & Fire's Let's Groove Tonight; Lionel Richie's Hello

Hello (Lionel Richie song)

"Hello" is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from Richie's multi-platinum album Can't Slow Down, the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart , the R&B chart , and the adult contemporary chart . The song also went to number one...

, You Are

You Are (Lionel Richie song)

"You Are" is the title of a popular song from 1983 by the R&B singer-songwriter Lionel Richie. "You Are" was written by Richie and his then-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie. It appears on his self-titled debut solo album, which came out in 1982....

, Running with the Night

Running with the Night

"Running with the Night" was the second single released from Lionel Richie's multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning 1983 album, Can't Slow Down...

; Dazz Band's Let It Whip

Let it Whip

"Let It Whip" is a 1982 hit single by the Dazz Band and their biggest hit, peaking at number one on the R&B chart for five non-consecutive weeks. The single also reached number two on the Dance chart and number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...

; Randy Newman's The Natural

The Natural (film)

The Natural is a 1984 film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball novel of the same name, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close and Robert Duvall...

and Short People

Short People

"Short People" is a song by Randy Newman from his 1977 album Little Criminals, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. The verses and chorus seem to be a pointed attack on the short...

; Kenny Loggins' Footloose

Footloose (song)

"Footloose" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two single by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name. The song spent three weeks at number one, March 31—April 14, 1984 on the U.S. Billboard...

; Barbra Streisand's Somewhere

Somewhere (song)

"Somewhere" is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story which was made into a film in 1961. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto, which forms the start of the...

; Cheap Trick's Surrender

Surrender (Cheap Trick song)

"Surrender" is a single by Cheap Trick released in June 1978 from the album Heaven Tonight. It was the first Cheap Trick single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 62...

; The Jacksons' Shake Your Body; Pointer Sisters' He's So Fine

He's So Fine

"He's So Fine" is a recording by The Chiffons which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the spring of 1963. One of the most instantly recognizable Golden Oldies with its doo-lang doo-lang doo-lang background vocal, "He's So Fine" is also renowned as the plaintiff song in the now-infamous...

; and Diana Ross's Missing You

Missing You (Diana Ross song)

"Missing You" is a 1984 song by Diana Ross. The third 45 release from her album Swept Away, the song was written and produced by Lionel Richie as a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who died earlier that year...

. A complete discography is available at http://www.discogs.com/artist/Michael+Boddicker#t=Credits_Instruments-Performance&q=&p=1

Commercial and advertising projects

Boddicker has composed music for the following corporations and product lines: Honda

Honda

is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

, ARCO

ARCO

Atlantic Richfield Company is an oil company with operations in the United States as well as in Indonesia, the North Sea, and the South China Sea. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States. ARCO was originally formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic...

, SEGA

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

, Levi's Jeans, He-Man

He-Man

He-Man is a fictional heroic character featured in the Masters of the Universe media franchise. In most variations, he is the alter ego of Prince Adam...

, Carabine, Chiquita Bananas, Red Carpet

Red Carpet

Red Carpet is a software management tool for Linux that was developed as part of the Ximian desktop. Ximian and therefore Red Carpet is now owned by Novell....

, Spee-Dee Pit Stop, The California Lottery and Miller Beer. Additionally, "Blue Cross - Moses" with Don Piestrup.

Trailers include:
"The Negotiator

The Negotiator

The Negotiator is a 1998 drama-thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. It takes place in Chicago and was released on July 29, 1998. The original music score was composed by Graeme Revell.-Plot:...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Les Miserables

Les Misérables

Les Misérables , translated variously from the French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims), is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Waterworld

Waterworld

Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It is based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was distributed by Universal Pictures...

" - Arranged and Adapted, Additional Composition by
Michael Boddicker
"Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

" - Arranged and Adapted, Additional Composition by
Michael Boddicker
"Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...

" - Arranged and Adapted by Michael Boddicker
"Forever Young

Forever Young

-Film and television:* Forever Young , a 1992 film starring Mel Gibson and Elijah Wood* Forever Young , directed by David Drury* Forever Young , an American reality TV series-Albums:...

" - Arranged and Adapted by Michael Boddicker
"And the Band Played On

And the Band Played On

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a nonfiction book written by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, published in 1987...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Map of the Human Heart

Map of the Human Heart

Map of the Human Heart is the title of a 1993 film by New Zealand director Vincent Ward. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film in the 1970s,...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful

Mr. Wonderful may refer to:*Mr. Wonderful by Fleetwood Mac*"Mr. Wonderful" written in 1955*Mr. Wonderful , starring Sammy Davis, Jr.*Mr. Wonderful , a 1993 film directed by Anthony Minghella...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers is a 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Neil Simon. After eleven previews, the Broadway production, produced by Emanuel Azenberg and directed by Gene Saks, opened on February 21, 1991 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 780 performances...

" - Composed by Michael Boddicker
"Pelican Brief" - Composed by Michael Boddicker

Boddicker has contributed sound design to the campaigns of: Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

, Honda

Honda

, McDonalds, Blue Cross, Perrier

Perrier

Perrier is a brand of bottled mineral water made from a spring in Vergèze in the Gard département of France. The spring is naturally carbonated...

, Ford, Paul Mason

Paul Mason

Paul Mason may refer to:* Paul Mason , British television news correspondent* Paul Mason , American author* Paul Mason , British footballer* Paul Mason , Canadian canoeist and cartoonist...

, Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi

The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...

, Carl's Jr.

Carl's Jr.

Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Western and Southwestern United States. The first store has opened in Canada in Kelowna, BC. They are in the process of expanding to Mexico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam,...

, Michelob, Kellogg's, Puppy Chow

Puppy chow

Puppy Chow is a form of chocolate-based confectionary, eaten in the United States. It is most often consumed in the northwestern Midwest, including Illinois, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska...

, Chevron

Chevron

Chevron may refer to:* Chevron , a decoration* Chevron , a bone* Chevron , a fold in rock layers* Chevron , a sediment deposit across the earth's surface* The Chevron, a newspaper...

, Anheuser Busch, Nabisco

Nabisco

Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...

, Diahatsu, GMAC, Georgia Pacific, Delco

Delco

Delco may refer to:* Delaware County, Ohio* Delaware County, Pennsylvania* Delco, North Carolina* Delco Electronics...

, Six Flags

Six Flags

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...

, Ralph's, Coldwell Banker

Coldwell Banker

Coldwell Banker is a large real estate franchise founded in 1906 in San Francisco.Coldwell Banker has an international presence, with offices on six continents, 46 countries and territories...

, Florida Lottery

Florida Lottery

The Florida Lottery is a government-run organization in Florida, USA. With numerous on-line and scratch-off games available, players have a wide variety of prize levels to choose from. Since it began, the Florida Lottery has continued to add variety to its portfolio of games...

, Sunny Delight

Sunny Delight

Sunny Delight may refer to the following:* SunnyD, the main drink made by Sunny Delight Beverages* Sunny Delight Beverages, the maker of Sunny Delight...

, O'Douls Ale, Great Western

Great Western

Great Western can refer to:* The Great Western Railway, a United Kingdom railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to:** Great Western Main Line, a principal passenger and freight rail route...

, 1st Interstate, Vons

Vons

Vons is a southern California and southern Nevada supermarket chain and a division of Safeway Inc. It is headquartered in Arcadia, California, and operates stores under the Vons and Pavilions banners.-Beginning:...

, In-And-Out, Air France

Air France

Air France , stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, , and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance...

, Aloha Air, Miller Beer, American Express

American Express

American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

, Kenwood

Kenwood

- Places :England* Kenwood , a part of Hampstead Heath, London, the location of** Kenwood House* Kenwood, in the parish of Kenton, Devon* Kenwood, St. George's Hill, John Lennon's home in Weybridge, SurreyUnited States* Kenwood, California...

, Southern California Gas

Southern California Gas

Southern California Gas Company is the primary provider of natural gas to the region of Southern California. Its headquarters are located in Downtown Los Angeles.-Competition:...

, and Cadillac Dealers of Southern California.

Motion picture credits

Composed by Sting and David Hartley
"The Emporer's New Groove"

Composed By: Maurice Jarre
"Jacobs Ladder"
"Ghost"
"No Way Out" - (Principal Synthesist)
"Mosquito Coast" - (Session Leader/Principal Synthesist)
"Solar Babies" - (Session Leader/Principal Synthesist)
"Enemy Mine" - (Principal Synthesist)
"Witness"
"Fatal Attraction"
"Distant Thunder"
"Gaby"
"Cocktail"
"Gorillas in the Mist"
"Dead Poets Society"
"Prancer"
"Art of Cinema"

Composed By: Basil Poledouris
"White Fang"
" Flight Of The Intruder"
"Wired"
"Free Willy" & "Free Willy II"
"Quigley Down Under"
"On Deadly Ground"
"Under Siege II"

Composed By: James Horner
"Where The River Runs Black"
"Commando"
"Vibes"
"Red Heat"
"Captain EO"

Composed By: David Foster
"Secret Of My Success"
"Stealing Home"
"Mismatched"

Composed By: Bill Conti
"The Right Stuff" - (Principal Synthesist) Academy Award For Best Musical Score
"Karate Kid II" - (Principal Synthesist)
"I Love New York"
"The Boss' Wife"
"Broadcast News"
'Maybe Baby"
"Baby Boom"
"Karate Kid III"
"Lock Up"
"The Fourth War"

Composed By: Lee Holdridge
"16 Days Of Glory" - (Featured Soloist)

Composed By: Jac Redford
"Extremities"
"Oliver & Co."

Composed By: Tom Newman
"Desperately Seeking Susan"
"Light Of Day"
"Revenge Of The Nerds"
"Less Than Zero"
"Welcome Home Roxie Carmichael"
"Men Don't Leave"

Composed By: Jim Depasquale
"Armed And Dangerous"
"Half And Half"

Composed By: Miles Goodman
"Little Shop Of Horrors"
"Teen Wolf"
"Just One Night"
"Blind Justice"
"Like Father Like Son"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

Composed By: John Williams
"Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind"
"The River"
"Jaws II"

Composed By: Randy Kerber
"Date With An Angel"

Composed by: Marvin Hamlish
"Three Men And A Baby"
"Little Nikita"

Composed By: Jonathan Sheffer
"In A Shallow Grave"

Composed By: Randy Newman
"Avalon"
"Parenthood"
"The Natural"

Composed By: David McHugh
"Dream Team"
"Montana"

Composed By: Georges Delerue
"Her Alibi" (Song Produced By Michael Boddicker And Frank
Fitzpatrick. The London Session, Vol. 1)

Composed By: Randy Edelman
"Come See The Paradise"

Composed By: James Newton Howard
"Flatliners"
"All American Hero"

Composed By: Trevor Jones
"Arachnophobia"
"Free Jack"
"Goonies" - Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies "R" Good Enough"
"The Color Purple" - Theme Song
"Country"
"Af Officer And A Gentleman"
"The Toy"
"Back To The Future"
"Above The Law"
"Shadow On The Sun"
'The Great Outdoors"
"The Gods Must Be Crazy II"
"Twins"
"Everybody's All American"
"Heartbreak Hotel"
"Witching Hour"
"Arthur On The Rocks"
"Hard To Kill"

Other film projects

"Goonies" - Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies "R" Good Enough"
"The Color Purple" - Theme Song
"Country"
"Af Officer And A Gentleman"
"The Toy"
"Back To The Future"
"Above The Law"
"Shadow On The Sun"
'The Great Outdoors"
"The Gods Must Be Crazy II"
"Twins"
"Everybody's All American"
"Heartbreak Hotel"
"Witching Hour"
"Arthur On The Rocks"
"Hard To Kill"

Performer

The Dazz Band "Let It Whip"

Carl Carlton "She's A Bad Mama Jama"

Michael Jackson - "HIStory"
"Thriller" LP (Grammy Award Winner)
"Off The Wall" LP
"Bad" LP
"They Don't Care"
"Black Or White"
"Earth Song"
"This Is It"

Chicago - "17" LP
"18" LP

Kenny Rogers - "Tough Guys"

Whitney Houston - "Greatest Love Of All" (Grammy Award Winner)

Lionel Richie - "Dancing On The Ceiling" LP (Grammy Award
Winner)
"Can't Slow Down" LP
"You Are The Sun" LP

Barbra Streisand - "Somewhere" (Grammy Award Winner),
"Superman"
"Till I Loved You" LP
("Love Light" "One More Time [You & Me]"
"Always")
"Someone I Used To Love"

Diana Ross - "Missing You" LP
"Muscles" LP

USA For Africa - "We Are The World" (Grammy Award Winner)

Julio Iglesias - "Everytime I Fall"
"Love Is On Our Side Again"
"Hold On To You"
"To All The Girls I Loved Before"

Pia Zadora - "On This Day"
"What Do You Do"
"Sometimes Miracles"

Angela Bofill - "Delicious" (Double Record)

Randy Newman - "Short People"/"Little Criminals" LP
"Land Of Dreams"
"Four Eyes" LP
"I Love L.A."/"Trouble In Paradise" LP
"The Natural"

Roberta Flack- "OOH OOH OH OH (Here We Come)"

Englebert Humperdinck- "Radio Dancing"
"Lady Lolita"
"One & One Makes Three"
"Alone In The Night"
"How Do I Stop Loving You"

June Pointer - "Put Your Dream (Where Your Heart Is)"

Neil Diamond - "Baby Can I Hold You"
"This Time"
"Courtin' Disaster"
"If I Could See You Again"
"Baby It's Gonna Be"
"Heart Light"

Patti LaBelle - "A Matter Of Trust"
"Need A Little Faith"

Quincy Jones - "I'll Be Good To You"
"Birdland"
"The Places You Find Love"
"Back On The Block"

Jeffrey Osborne/Dionne Warwick - "Take Good Care"

Janet Jackson - "Rhythm Nation" Long Form Video

Celine Dion - "I'm Loving Every Moment"
"Love By Any Other Name"
"I Feel Too Much"

Rickie Lee Jones - "Rickie Lee Jones" LP
"Pirates" LP
"Girl At Her Volcano" LP
"The Magazine" LP
"Flying Cowboys" LP

Bob Seger - "Love Will Find A Way"

Michael Rogers - "I Got Love"
"Rock Me Baby"
"Soul Survivors"
"Stop Stealing My Heart"
"Let's Have A Good Time"
"Same Old Song"

David Hasselhoff - "Looking For Freedom"
"Je T'Aime"
"Lonely Is The Night"
"Sheltered Heart"

As a performer on television

"St. Elsewhere" - Series
"Bronx Zoo" - Series
"Our House" - Series
"Simon & Simon" - Series
"Wilton Northrop Report" - Series
"Amerika" - Mini Series
"Space" - Mini Series
"Roots" - Mini Series
"I Saw What You Did" - T.V. Movie
"Murder Of Mary Phagan" - T.V. Movie
"Down Payment On Murder" - T.V. Movie
"Hit & Run" - T.V. Movie
"Long Journey Home" - T.V. Movie
NBC Olympics Coverage
"The Equalizer"-Series
"Annie McGuire"-Series
"Falcon Crest"-Series
"War Story"- HBO Special

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