Talk:Neal Hefti

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I've added vast tracks of land to this article, using text from a school paper that I wrote about Hefti a decade ago (which I hereby license under the GFDL). I haven't done a very good job of wiki-fying it, or fixing the style problems, or removing the POV (I admit that I'm a big fan), but I figure that my additions are an improvement... I look forward to seeing how it evolves. Klundberg 05:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green Hornet?

You make two references to Hefti having done the music for the TV series "The Green Hornet." The theme to that series was an arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee," and the underscore music was by Billy May. I can find no documentation of Hefti being involved with that series. You provide the link to Hefti's entry in IMDb, but there is no mention of "The Green Hornet" in that entry either. Rich 05:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

I defer to you. It sounds like you know more about the Green Hornet music than I do, so you're probably right. Next time I'm at the library, I'll try to figure out which one of my references claimed that he did the Green Hornet score. I'm guessing that it was one of the Jazz encyclopedias, either Kinkle or Larkin... Klundberg 16:06, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Why I know anything about the Green Hornet music is a mystery to me, but that's the kind of stuff that sticks in my head. I went ahead and removed the Green Hornet references from your piece (which I like, by the way; I'm a big Neal Hefti fan). If you later find that I'm wrong, they can always be reinstated. Rich 18:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Batman

Re: "His best-known contributions of this period are the theme of the TV series such as Batman and The Odd Couple." As I remember (from childhood), Nelson Riddle wrote the theme to Batman. TheScotch 07:10, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, never mind. It appears--after Googling--that Hefti wrote the theme and Riddle wrote the incindental music. I just remember seeing Riddle's name on the screen each week. TheScotch 07:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bossa Nova

"One of the serendipitous highlights of his work in the late Forties was the recording of his bossa nova song "Repetition" for an album called The Jazz Scene using a big band and string orchestra."

vs.

"Although the Bossa Nova movement only lasted six years (1958-63), it contributed a number of songs to the standard jazz repertoire."

and "Bossa Nova developed in Brazil in 1958, with Elizete Cardoso's recording of Chega de Saudade on the Canção do Amor Demais LP."

(from the Wikipedia's Bossa Nova article) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.186.247.222 (talk) 22:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)