Lyn Murray
| Lyn Murray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lionel Breeze 13 August 1909 London, England |
| Died | 29 April 1989 (aged 79) or May 20, 1989 Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | American film composer |
Lyn Murray (August 13, 1909 - April 29, 1989 or May 20, 1989) was a composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television.
Born as Lionel Breeze in London, Murray was the son of a violinist. Before entering a career in music, Murray was a seaman. He followed that nautical occupation with a stint as a reporter with the Philadelphia Public Ledger. He also attended the Juilliard School.
Murray's initial involvement with radio came in Newport News, Virginia.
He later founded the Lyn Murray Singers, who became known throughout the United States as the featured group on CBS Radio’s Your Hit Parade.
In the early 1940s, Murray, his orchestra and chorus were featured on Meet the Music, "a Sunday evening feature paying weekly tribute to the modern song writers." Beginning in 1943, He led a 20-piece orchestra and 12-member singing group on To Your Good Health, broadcast three times a week on CBS radio.
His other work in radio included composing for The Adventures of Ellery Queen and being choral director for Pursuit of Happiness. He was also music conductor for Radio Readers' Digest.
Murray worked as a conductor, arranger and producer with such artists as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Burl Ives at CBS prior to moving to NBC in 1947. The Lyn Murray Singers appeared on Broadway in Finian's Rainbow (1948), singing arrangements written by Murray for the production. He composed the incidental music for 35 episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour between 1962 and 1965 and for 46 episodes of Dragnet 1967 between 1967 and 1969.
In 1950, Murray moved to Hollywood and began composing scores for feature films, including The Prowler (1951), To Catch a Thief (1955), Escape from Zahrain (1962), Come Fly with Me (1963), Wives and Lovers (1963), Promise Her Anything (1965), Rosie! (1967) and Strategy of Terror (1969), as well as creating episodic underscoring for television shows such as The Virginian (1962), Daniel Boone (1964), The Time Tunnel (1966), Dragnet (1967), and the unaired pilot for Mr. Terrific.
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