Vic Mizzy|Victor Mizzy
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Vic MizzyVictor Mizzywas an Americancomposerfor television and movies whose best known works are the themes to the 1960s television showsGreen AcresandThe Addams Family.
He also wrote the scores forThe Ghost and Mr. ChickenandThe Reluctant Astronaut, two very popularDon Knottsfilms in the latter half of the 1960s. Both scores possessed a sound which became billed as "The Don Knotts Sound". Mizzy released these scores on CD, complementing the DVD releases of the films. He also worked withSam Raimifor the outtake music ofSpider-Man 2andSpider-Man 3.Mizzy was born inBrooklyn, New York. He had two children with his first wife, Mary Small, a singer who first earned the moniker "The Little Girl With The Big Voice" and was popular in the 1930s (as a child), 1940s and 1950s. One of her daughters, Patty Keeler, a singer and songwriter, oftenworked withDoc Pomus, a 1992 inductee to the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.Mizzy died at his home inBel Air, Los Angeles, Californiaon October 17, 2009, aged 93
He also wrote the scores forThe Ghost and Mr. ChickenandThe Reluctant Astronaut, two very popularDon Knottsfilms in the latter half of the 1960s. Both scores possessed a sound which became billed as "The Don Knotts Sound". Mizzy released these scores on CD, complementing the DVD releases of the films. He also worked withSam Raimifor the outtake music ofSpider-Man 2andSpider-Man 3.Mizzy was born inBrooklyn, New York. He had two children with his first wife, Mary Small, a singer who first earned the moniker "The Little Girl With The Big Voice" and was popular in the 1930s (as a child), 1940s and 1950s. One of her daughters, Patty Keeler, a singer and songwriter, oftenworked withDoc Pomus, a 1992 inductee to the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.Mizzy died at his home inBel Air, Los Angeles, Californiaon October 17, 2009, aged 93
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