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Miles Goodman (August 27, 1949 – August 16, 1996) was an American

United States

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 musician

Musician

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 who composed music for television program

Television program

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s, including Teen Wolf

Teen Wolf

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, and many film

Film

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s, 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

Jazz

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and classics

Classics

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. Los Angeles-born and raised, Goodman majored in theater at Antioch College

Antioch College

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. It was his cousin Johnny Mandel

Johnny Mandel

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who led Goodman to a music career. Goodman studied under Albert Harris

Albert Harris (composer)

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during the early '70s and cut his composer's teeth as an orchestrator for a few of Mandel's scores, including Being There

Being There

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(1979). He officially launched his career in 1977, scoring the critically acclaimed but short-lived NBC series James at 15

James at 15

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. 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

Toots Thielemans

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working with a variety of famed Brazilian artists on The Brasil Project (1992).

Miles Goodman composed scores for numerous TV shows and films, particularly with director Frank Oz

Frank Oz

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 including the 1986 musical adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)

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, HouseSitter

HouseSitter

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, and What About Bob?

What About Bob?

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.

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

Television credits (partial)

Year	Title	Info	Limited?	Label	OOP / SOLD OUT
1979	Lou Grant Lou Grant Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Edward Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS. The first was Mary Tyler Moore , in which the character was the news director at the fictional television station WJM-TV...	Incomplete episodes: "Mob" (season 2) "Samaritan" (season 2)	-----	-----	NO CD