Barry De Vorzon (born July 31, 1934 in New York City) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and composer. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York His first composing big hit was the rock song, "Dreamin'", sung by Johnny Burnette in 1960, although he had a minor hit previously called "Just Married", which he wrote for Marty Robbins in 1958. Johnny Burnett redirects here for the baseball infielder see Johnny Burnett (baseball player. Martin David Robinson ( September 26 1925 – December 8, 1982) was an American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dorsey Burnette (who he was managing) and Barry co-wrote several of Dorsey's hits ("Hey Little One", "Big Rock Candy Mountain", "Red Roses", "Noah's Ark"). Dorsey Burnette ( December 28, 1932 - August 19, 1979) was an early Rockabilly singer from Memphis
De Vorzon worked as an A&R rep for Valiant Records later in the 1960s, during which time he signed The Association and produced their first single, a cover of the Bob Dylan tune "One Too Many Mornings". Valiant Records was independent record company co-owned by Four Star Television which was sold in 1967 by Warner Bros Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major
DeVorzon wrote "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" for the Cascades, but they didn't record it. Barry ended up recording the song himself, with his group, Barry and the Tamerlanes in 1963.
De Vorzon composed the soundtracks to many 1970s and 1980s films, and one of the tunes, "Cotton's Theme" (from Bless the Beasts and Children) was rescored by Perry Botkin Jr. and retitled "Nadia's Theme" for the television soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Perry Botkin Jr (born 1933 in New York New York) is an American Composer, producer, Arranger, and Musician. "Nadia's Theme" is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 "Nadia's Theme" hit #8 on the US Top 40 in 1976 and the album from which it was taken shot to #42 on the Billboard 200; in 1977, it won a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Arrangement. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
De Vorzon also composed the tune "It's Christmas Once Again in San Francisco. "
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