Biography for
Joseph Harnell More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

2 August 1924, The Bronx, New York, USA

Date of Death

14 July 2005, Sherman Oaks, California, USA (heart failure)

Mini Biography

Composer/songwriter who wrote the United Artists logo music for film/TV. Educated at the University of Miami and Trinity College, he studied with Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Ernst Toch, and Leonard Bernstein, played piano in dance bands, and was music director for Harry Richman, Jane Froman, Peggy Lee, Carol Lawrence, Robert Goulet, and Marlene Dietrich, and made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1959, his popular-song compositions include "Cinderella Twist" and "Funny Bunny".

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Spouse

Alice Harnell

(? - 14 July 2005) (his death) 4 children

Trivia

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the pianist, conductor and composer worked with Peggy Lee in concerts and on several of her albums. Harnell conducted the orchestra on Lee's albums "Anything Goes: Cole Porter" and "Peggy Lee and the George Shearing Quintet," and played piano on another of her albums, "Things Are Swingin.'" He also worked with singers like Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and Pearl Bailey.