Person · American score composer
David Shire
Albums
46
Members
0
Active
1937–present
Origin
United States
Biography
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores.
Some of his best-known works include the soundtracks to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Francis Coppola's The Conversation, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline".
His other work includes the score of the 1985 film Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz, and the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Closer Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now.
Discography
Steelyard Blues
Theme From The Conversation / Invocation
Retrospetive And End Title (Hindenburg Theme)
"The Hindenburg"
The Hindenburg (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Theme From All The President's Men
Manhattan Skyline
Starting Here, Starting Now (1977 original off-Broadway cast)
Fast Break
The Promise
2010: Original Music From the Motion Picture
Baby: The New Musical (1983 original Broadway cast)
Return to Oz
Closer Than Ever (1989 original off-Broadway cast)
At the Movies
Bed and Breakfast
Big: The Musical
Big: The Musical (Original Cast Album)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Last Stand at Saber River
Film Music
Big: The Musical (1999 touring cast)
Morituri / Raid on Entebbe
The Conversation
Farewell, My Lovely / Monkey Shines
Klute / All the President’s Men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Max Dugan Returns / I Ought to Be in Pictures
Zodiac
Zodiac (Original Motion Picture Score)
Short Circuit
Take Flight (original Cast Recording)
Northwest Passage: Classic Western Scores from M-G-M Volume 2
The Big Bus
Paternity
Rear Window
Old Boyfriends
The Journey Inside
The Women of Brewster Place
Apocalypse Now – The Unused Score
Monkey Shines
Baby
Killer Bees / Isn't It Shocking / Harpy
Runaway: The Early Works of David Shire
Small Vices
The Sap of Life
The World According to Garp