Miles Goodman

Miles Goodman
Born	Miles Goodman August 27, 1949(1949-08-27) Los Angeles, California
Died	August 16, 1996(1996-08-16) (aged 46) Brentwood, California

For the fictional character on Sabrina The Teenage Witch, See List of characters in Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series), (Section: Miles Goodman).

Miles Goodman (August 27, 1949 – August 16, 1996) was an American musician who composed music for television programs, including Teen Wolf, and many films, notably the toe-tapping tunes from Footloose (1984) and the incidental music to Little Shop of Horrors (1986). As a producer, Goodman specialized in light jazz and classics. Los Angeles-born and raised, Goodman majored in theater at Antioch College. It was his cousin Johnny Mandel who led Goodman to a music career. Goodman studied under Albert Harris during the early '70s and cut his composer's teeth as an orchestrator for a few of Mandel's scores, including Being There (1979). He officially launched his career in 1977, scoring the critically acclaimed but short-lived NBC series James at 15. On this program, he created his signature technique of combining songs with original music. By 1991, after over a decade of scoring an average of four major feature films a year, Goodman decided to take a break and so became a record producer. His first production featured harmonicist Toots Thielemans working with a variety of famed Brazilian artists on The Brasil Project (1992).^[1]

Miles Goodman composed scores for numerous TV shows and films, particularly with director Frank Oz including the 1986 musical adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, HouseSitter, and What About Bob?.^[2]

Goodman died at age 46 on August 16, 1996, following a heart attack in his Los Angeles home.^[3]

Television credits (partial)

Year	Title	Info	Limited?	Label	OOP / SOLD OUT
1979	Lou Grant	Incomplete episodes: "Mob" (season 2) "Samaritan" (season 2)	-----	-----	NO CD

References

1. ^ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
2. ^ Miles Goodman at the Internet Movie Database
3. ^ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Name	Goodman, Miles
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Date of birth	August 27, 1949
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California
Date of death	August 16, 1996
Place of death	Brentwood, California