Joel Hirschhorn

Joel Hirschhorn (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005) was an American

rock & roll

band, The Highlighters.

During the mid-1960s, Hirschhorn branched out into writing film soundtracks. The first score he wrote was for

Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965), which was directed by his friend Joseph Cates. He worked with Cates again the following year in The Fat Spy. However, the film was received so badly that Hirschhorn struggled to find work in Hollywood for years afterwards.^{[citation needed}

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Hirschhorn, along with songwriting partner

Billboard chart

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The Towering Inferno (1974) provided Hirschhorn and Kasha with their second Oscars, this time for the "We May Never Love Like This Again". Following this success, the pair received two further Oscar nominations, both for their work on Pete's Dragon

(1977).

Hirschhorn and Kasha continued to work together until the late 1990s, their final collaboration being

Rescue Me (1992). The pair also worked together on Broadway musicals, receiving Tony Award for Best Original Score nominations for both Copperfield and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Late in his career, Hirschhorn wrote The Complete Idiot's Guide to Songwriting

, which was first published in 2001.

External links

Joel Hirschhorn at
IMDb
Joel Hirschhorn at the Internet Broadway Database
Joel Hirschhorn at Find a Grave