Previous posts for September 20th are here: William Kapell (2019), Ildebrando Pizzetti (2020), Frank De Vol (2021), John Dankworth (2022), and Gottfried Scheidt (2023)
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Frank Comstock (20 September 1922 – 21 May 2013) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor for big bands and major situation comedies and variety shows.
Living Room Music
He also wrote the theme and scores for the Dean Jones comedy Ensign O'Toole (1962-63); composed scores for such 1960s sitcoms as Gilligan's Island, McHale's Navy and F Troop; arranged much of the jukebox music heard during the early seasons of the 1970s hits Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley;). Perhaps most significantly, Comstock penned the original themes for several segments of the animated Rocky and His Friends (1959-61), specifically "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," "Fractured Fairy Tales," "Peabody's Improbable History" and "Bullwinkle's Corner." -- obituary at http://www.filmmusicsociety.org
Frank Comstock wrote the sound that we
Associate with old TV.
His list of credits never ends,
And goes from Rocky and His Friends,
Through F-Troop, Dragnet, Happy Days,
And others that define that phase
Of television’s golden times
And earns his place in present rhymes.
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Benjamin Franklin White (20 September 1800 – 5 December 1879) was a shape note singing master, and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp.
The Shape of Things
Benjamin Franklin White compiled
The Sacred Harp caused a fashion
For songbooks where the print was styled
In shape notes and was sung with passion.
Enthusiastic coteries
Of ardent singers still employ it
And dedicated votaries
Of shape note singers still enjoy it.
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