Leroy Shield
Musician, Composer, and Producer
The Beau Hunks...Hal Roach films had been discovered in a Los Angeles archive in 1994 and 1995. This collection yielded Leroy Shield's notes for the score of Our Relations. Piet Schreuders studied the sheet music, identified dozens of individual themes... In this article: Beau Hunks, Leroy Shield, Our Relations, Hal Roach, Laurel and Hardy, Blom, Edward McDowell, Ferde Grofe, and Raymond Scott |
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Wikipedia | October 18, 2009
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
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
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
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Beau Hunks
...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
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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 ...
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Leroy Shield - Our Relations
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 ...
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Music of Leroy Shield
Biography of composer Leroy Shield, with downloadable clips. ... The Hal Roach Our Gang comedies of the 1930's, renamed The Little Rascals for ...
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YouTube - Leroy Shield's cameo appearance
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...
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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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Leroy Shield (October 2, 1893 - January 9, 1962) was an 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 a number of on-air musical pieces. He also worked as a part-time employee for the Hal Roach studio, composing a great majority of the background music that later became associated with Roach series such as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and Charley Chase. Most notably, one of the tunes he composed for Our Gang's 1930 short Teacher's Pet, became Our Gang's theme song ("Good Old Days").
After touring with Toscanini during the early 1950s, he retired in 1955.
In 1992, the Dutch musical group Beau Hunks (named after the Laurel and Hardy film) transcribed and re-recorded tracks by Shield. These recordings drew encomia from cartoonist R. Crumb (who drew a portrait of Shield for the CD cover). They have led to a renewed appreciation of the composer's work.
- Birth Date:
- October 02, 1893
- Death Date:
- January 09, 1962
- Occupation:
- Songwriter, composer
- Record Label:
- RCA Victor, National Broadcasting Company
- Associated With:
- Our Gang, Laurel & Hardy, Charley Chase
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