Michael Z. Gordon

Michael Z. Gordon

Recognizing the start of a new era in music, the surfing craze, Michael Z. Gordon wrote his first hit song, "Surfer's Stomp" almost immediately after he formed his first rock & roll band, The Marketts.[1] Barely able to play the guitar, he taught himself how to play as he toured with his group. After having toured on the road with the Marketts for three years, he wanted to go back into the studio to produce and record more songs. He went back into the studio with his second group, "The Routers" and he recorded another national hit song, "Let's Go!" by The Routers. While on a national tour with the Routers, he sat down and wrote his biggest and most popular smash recording, "Out of Limits", which went to #1 in the nation and earned him his first BMI award for instrumental of the year. Finally deciding to end his touring days, he went back to Hollywood and teamed up with Jimmy Griffin[2], another up and coming songwriter and the duo wrote over sixty songs which resulted in over one hundred recordings including "Love Machine" [3]]] and "Apologize" by Ed Aames, which earned him his second BMI award.

Gordon then went on to become an award winning film producer in addition to composing music for movies and TV including, "The Outsiders"(1983), _"The Wonder Years" (1988),"Pulp Fiction" (1994)[4], "Ally McBeal" (1997), _"Everybody Loves Raymond"_ (1996)[5] and the Tom Hanks HBO series, _ , "From the Earth to the Moon" (1998). Gordon now devotes full time to producing motion pictures. His roster of current movie productions include the critically acclaimed film, "Narc" (2002) [6] starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, which earned over $20,000,000, , "Shortcut to Happiness" [7] starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt [www.mylovehewitt.com/mylovemovies/devil.htm ] and Dan Aykroyd, "In Enemy Hands" (2004) starring William Macy and Lauren Holly, "Silent Partner" [8] starring Tara Reid and Nick Moran _and "Mafioso: The Father, the Son" (2004)[9], another multiple award-winning film.

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