Emil Cadkin
| Emil M. Cadkin | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 26, 1920 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Origin | United States Russia |
| Genres | Film scores |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Conductor, Music Director |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1942–present |
Emil M. Cadkin (Эмиль Cadkin) is an American TV and film composer of Russian descent who worked mainly as a production music composer. He worked with Bill Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone (1907–1992). Some of his music was also featured on APM Music. Cadkin composed music for 1940s, 1950s and 1960s TV series, films and cartoons including Gumby and Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie.
He was born on August 26, 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three children to Isadore and Sarah Cadkin, who had emigrated from Russia in 1905. His father was a cabinet maker in Los Angeles by 1936. Cadkin attended Yale University, where he majored in Music, with special emphasis in Music Composition and Music Theory. He was in Los Angeles writing and teaching music by the time he enlisted in the Air Force in 1942. His song I Have Everything I Want But You was copyrighted in 1938.
After being discharged from the Air Force, he scored films like “The Big Fix” for bottom-of-the-barrel studio PRC. Cadkin was an associate editor of ASCAP’s ‘The Score’ when it was created in 1948, and got a job in 1958 as musical director at Ritco Productions, a low-budget company that churned out westerns starring Forrest Tucker. Cadkin switched from ASCAP to BMI the following year. He graduated to become musical director and arranger for Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems. He also got into the business of supplying taped music programming for radio stations, as Billboard of May 23, 1970 reveals he had been appointed music director of popular products (as opposed to classical) for American Tape Duplicators. But he spent a decade co-writing music along with Bill Loose, which ended up in various libraries, including Capitol Hi-Q. Billboard of December 23, 1967 reveals distribution rights to that music, previously in the PMS, OK and PM libraries, which had belonged to Capitol, had been purchased by Emil Ascher, Inc.
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