Leroy Shield

...American film score and radio composer. A native of Waseca, Minnesota, Shield was an employee of RCA Victor's National Broadcasting Company , for which he composed and conducted on-air musical pieces. He also worked as a part-time employee...

In this article: Hal Roach, Laurel and Hardy, ZaSu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Arturo Toscanini, R. Crumb, Beau Hunks, Teacher's Pet, and Our Gang

...versions of then popular tunes. Marvin Hatley had served as the music director of Hal Roach Studios since 1929, and RCA employee Leroy Shield joined the company as a part-time musical director in mid 1930. Hatley and Shield's...

In this article: Our Gang, Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Little Rascals, Robert F. McGowan, King World, and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas

...at an Oliver Hardy centennial celebration in Amsterdam. They went on to release a number of recordings of the film music of Leroy Shield and some other composers, notably Raymond Scott. Hal Roach once said that this, of all the L&H films he...

In this article: Stan Laurel, Beau Hunks, Hal Roach, Oliver Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, James W. Horne, and The Flying Deuces

Dedicated to film composer Leroy Shield, whose scores and incidental music were heard in multiple films produced by Hal Roach through the 1930s and 40s, especially ...

When Leroy Shield first started to write music for the Hal Roach Studios in 1930, ... Shields [sic] is torn between two loves—NBC's Chicago studio and the Hal Roach ...

Biography of composer Leroy Shield, with downloadable clips. ... The Hal Roach Our Gang comedies of the 1930's, renamed The Little Rascals for ...

Composer Leroy Shield, who was responsible for most of the background music in the Hal Roach comedies, appeared as a bandleader in the Thelma Todd / ZaSu Pit...

Does anyone know where I'd be able to find Hal Roach sheet music such as The Little Rascals Theme, Anything by Le Roy Shield/Leroy Shield/ Roy Shield or Martin ...

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