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Jerry Goldsmith's Profile
FANSITE Dedicated to the Memory of Jerry Goldsmith
Location:	Pasadena, California
Country:	United States
Last Login:	May 20, 2008 (558 days back)

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About Me
Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor - Image Hosting Jerry Goldsmith was born February 10th, 1929 under the name Jerrald Goldsmith in Pasadena, California. He studied Piano at the early age of 6, and then when he was old enough he began studying Film Composition at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of the extraordinary film composer Miklos Rozsa whose Score for the 1945 movie Spellbound is the supposed influence for Goldsmth's passion for Film Score. In 1950 Goldsmith began working as a typist in the music department of the televison station CBS, soon he was actually given musical assignments to compose music for certain radio shows and and some television shows and his talent was quickly recognized. He continued to work with CBS until 1960 when he was employed by Revue Studios to score their series Thriller which soon lead to other compositions including the Dr. Kildare theme and the theme for the Man From U.N.C.L.E. In 1962, Goldsmith recieved his first Oscar Nomination for the poorly recieved film, Freud. Soon after he met Alfred Newman, an influential film composer who, recognizing Goldsmith awesome talent, convinced Universal to let Goldsmith compose the score for the 1963 film Lonely Are the Brave, leading to more and more scoring jobs and earning Goldsmith more and more renown. The early 1970's were some of the best years, Goldsmith was raising the bar with landmark scores such as The Planet of the Apes, The Blue Max and Patton. In the late 1970's Goldsmith was busy juggling, sucessfully mind you, his career of scoring both Film and Television scores such as the television Epic QBVII, which he recieved an Emmy for and the ever popular The Walton's theme. Later, Goldsmith recieved his first and last Oscar for the score of the film The Omen, and went on to score the popular Alien and one of his best and most recognized films, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Goldsmith said that the theme was the most challenging thing he had ever composed, and is still to this day ONE of the most recognizable themes there are, followed by Psycho and Jaws. In the 1980's Goldsmith composed many films such as the first four hours of the television miniseries Masada, and the films First Blood, Rambo II, Rambo III, The Secret of NIMH, Poltergeist, Supergirl and his return to the Star Trek series with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. This decade also saw his return to his heavy technological sound with Hoosiers. In this decade Goldsmith sucessfully pulled of the marriage of technological/orchestral sound without totally betraying the orchestral film score world. In the 1990's Goldsmith completed one his most popular scores, Total Recall which has earned the title 'Classic of the Genre". He also went on to compose the scores for the films, Basic Instinct, Air Force One, Rudy, The Mummy, and Russia House to name a small few. The new millenium brought the compositions for Hollow Man, The Last Castle (which featured a track dedicated to the victims of 9/11) Sum of All Fears, and Along Came a Spider. By this time Goldsmith's health was failing, which prevented hin from working as hard as he once used to. He still managed to finish the score for the new Star Trek installation, Nemesis, and after that his film scores were for friends such as the film score for Timeline which was directed by his friend Richard Donner. Unfortunatly the score could not be used because of major film cuts and reshoots. Donner tried to get Goldsmith to come back on board and rescore but Goldsmith was unable to. Goldsmith's last work was fittingly for his friend, Director Joe Dante and the comedy Loony Toon's: Back in Action, Goldsmith had worked closely with Dante on past projects such as Small Soldiers, Matinee, Gremlins and Twilight Zone: The Movie. Then on July 21st, 2004, Jerry Goldsmith, master, maestro, genius....died peacefully in his sleep after a long battle with cancer.
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Music: Member Since: 2/28/2007 Band Members: Influences: Miklos Rozsa Sounds Like: No one on earth Record Label: Retired Type of Label: Major
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New Tracks Up Close-ish.
So finally the new tracks are up...took me forever to change them, mostly because two specific people said they were the best ones ever so I was a little reluctant to change them, but also just cause ... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:18:00 PST
FINAL SCORE!
For those who are actually cool enough to care what the last numbers were for the tracks they were: Main Title (Alan Q) 601Test Flight (Forever Young) 601Leaving Drydock (STMP) 610The Big Jump (Total ... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:16:00 PST
NEW TRACKS A-COMIN!
Hey everyone! Just letting you know to be on the looky outty cause the new tracks are going to be appearing within the next two days. If everything goes well I should have them up by tomorrow ni... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:15:00 PST
New Tracks
A day after Jerry Goldsmith's birthday and I FINALLY get all the tracks uploaded...how depressing. I was trying so hard to get them all uploaded last night but between my work and the computer malfunc... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:35:00 PST
The Numbers as they Stand
ROBIN WINS with Contacting the Other Side pulling ahead with a Victorious 723 plays! The Rescue from Baby was second with 716, Warning Shot third with 705, Real Time fourth with 689, Red Alert f... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:07:00 PST
Care to make a friendly bet?
Hey, I've always had fun seeing at the end which one of the tracks beat out all the others in 'plays' I was curious if anyone wanted to take a guess as to which track is going to beat out all the othe... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:28:00 PST
Tracks in my opinion as usual
Merry Christmas early everyone! I really and truly hope that it's the best Christmas this year for everyone of you! Make it a memorable one this year! So the new tracks are a bit helter skelter as usu... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:06:00 PST
New Tracks Up Close
Well first off I gotta say I am SO ANGRY...because I wrote this really great Blog and then my computer SHUT ME OUT and erased the whole dang thing! Sometimes I really think Computers have minds o... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:17:00 PST
NEW TRACKS COMING TODAY...if all goes well!
Hey y'all! New tracks should be coming up sometime late tomorrow night...so be on the lookout! I will post a bulletien and as always, change my Picture to alert you of the change...although if I ... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:58:00 PST
Favorite Non-Goldsmith composer?
Okay here is one I have been wanting to ask for a really long time and just remembered that I wanted to ask it...what composer is your all time favorite BESIDES Goldsmith? Now remember folks...admitti... Posted by Jerry Goldsmith on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:27:00 PST
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