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Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding
Birth nameJoshua Itzhak Feldman
Also known asGerald Feldman,[1] credited as Jerry Feldman prior to June, 1947[2][3][4]
Born(1922-06-17)June 17, 1922
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OriginPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedFebruary 17, 1980(1980-02-17) (aged 57)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresJazz
Occupations

Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)[5] was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist,[citation needed] to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).

  1. ^ Martin Harry Greenberg (1 November 1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books.
  2. ^ "Music Popularity Chart: New Records". Billboard. June 15, 1946. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
  3. ^ Lohman, Sidney. "Radio Row: One Thing and Another". The New York Times. April 27, 1947. Retrieved 2014-04-14 via ProQuest. "Jack Paar, comedian, will occupy Jack Benny's time spot (Sunday, 7 P.M., NBC), beginning June 1. Music will be provided by the Page Cavanaugh Trio and Jerry Fielding's Orchestra."
  4. ^ Blank, Edward L.. "Fielding Mercurial Over Film Music; Changed Name". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 14, 1972. Retrieved 2014-04-15. "He worked for Kay Kyser under the name Feldman but had to change it when he was 23 to get a job on a Jack Paar show."
  5. ^ Redman, Nick. "Fielding, Jerry". Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen E.; Markoe, Arnold (1995). Dictionary of American Biography; Supplement 10: 1976–1980. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 238-239. ISBN 0-684-19399-X.

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