Norman "Buddy" Baker (January 4, 1918 – July 26, 2002) was an American composer who scored many of Walt Disney's films, such as The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Shaggy D.A., The Million Dollar Duck and The Fox and the Hound. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney film about slick gambler Russel Donavan (played by Bill Bixby) who is duped into taking care of a group The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a 1979 sequel to the 1975 family hit The Apple Dumpling Gang starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway The Shaggy DA is a 1976 film sequel to The Shaggy Dog (1959 Both are live-action films produced by Walt Disney Productions The Million Dollar Duck (also titled as The $1000000 Duck) is a 1971 Disney Comedy film about a scientist who brings The Fox and the Hound is a 1967 novel by Daniel Pratt Mannix IV.
Baker was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, and got his degree in music from Southwest Baptist College. Springfield is a city in Christian and Greene Counties in the U Southwest Baptist University (SBU is a private institute of higher education affiliated with the Missouri Baptist Convention which is part of the Southern Baptist Convention He later went to the West Coast in the 1930s to arrange music scores for radio. The " West Coast " " Western Seaboard " or " Pacific Seaboard " are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the Western United States He became the Musical Director on Bob Hope's radio show. Bob Hope, KBE KCSG ( May 29, 1903 &ndash July 27, 2003) was an American comedian and actor who appeared in
One of his first hits as a big band arranger on record was "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" for the Stan Kenton Orchestra. A big band is a type of Musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late Stanley Newcomb Kenton ( December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was a pianist who led a highly innovative influential and often controversial He later became a professor at L.A. City College in the early 1950s. Los Angeles City College, known as LACC is a public Community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles California. Among his early students was Jerry Goldsmith. Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith ( February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American Film score Composer
At about this time, his friend George Bruns asked him to compose music for the Disney television show Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. George Bruns ( July 3 1914 - May 23 1983) was a composer of music for Film and Television who worked on many He stayed on at the Disney studio, and eventually became its music director, as well as chief composer for the Disneyland theme parks.
Baker was nominated for an Academy Award for his score the film Napoleon and Samantha. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Napoleon and Samantha is a 1972 family/adventure/ Drama directed by Bernard McEveety and written by Stewart Raffill. His work appears in many Disney cartoons and featurettes, including Donald in Mathmagic Land, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject in 1959. Donald in Mathmagic Land is a Donald Duck Featurette which was released on June 26 1959.
Baker arranged and conducted most of the Winnie-the-Pooh musical featurettes. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animated Film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11 The musical film is a Film genre in which several Songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative As late as 1999, at the age of 82 he conducted the music for the The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh theme park attractions worldwide. See also 1999 in music (UK Musical groups established in 1999 Record History After the rise in popularity of Walt Disney's film adaptation of Winnie the Pooh, Disney Imagineers made plans in the late 1970s for a Winnie the Pooh
The music to the Tokyo DisneySea theme park attraction Journey to the Center of the Earth, which opened in 2001, was also composed by Baker. is a 176 acre (714000 m² Theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. Journey to the Center of the Earth is an attraction at Tokyo DisneySea It is based on Jules Verne 's Journey to the Center of the Earth
Baker retired from Disney, having been the last contracted music staff composer still on contract at any studio. Although occasionally returning to work on theme park, film and television projects, he spent the majority of his later years teaching film scoring at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999 is one of the premier music schools in the United States Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He held that job until his death in 2002. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002
External links
- Buddy Baker at Find-A-Grave
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