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Music Department:

• 1960s
• 1950s
• 1940s

1. "McHale's Navy" (composer: theme music) (132 episodes, 1962-1966) (composer: title music) (4 episodes, 1963-1964) (composer: additional music / theme music) (1 episode, 1963) (music score) (1 episode, 1965)
       - Wally for Congress (1966) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - Binghamton at 20 Paces (1966) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - An Ensign's Best Friend (1966) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - The McHale Grand Prix (1966) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - Who Was That German I Saw You With? (1966) TV episode (composer: theme music)
         (133 more)
2. "Westinghouse Playhouse" (composer: theme music) (26 episodes, 1961)
   ... aka The Nanette Fabray Show
   ... aka Westinghouse Playhouse Starring Nanette Fabray and Wendell Corey
   ... aka Yes, Yes Nanette (syndication title)
       - Nan Suits Dan (1961) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - Ballet-Oop (1961) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - The Mrs. Harper Story (1961) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - House Guest (1961) TV episode (composer: theme music)
       - Behind Every Great Man (1961) TV episode (composer: theme music)
         (21 more)
3. "Startime" (musical director) (1 episode, 1960)
   ... aka Ford Startime
   ... aka Lincoln-Mercury Startime
       - The Nanette Fabray Show, or Help Me, Aphrodite (1960) TV episode (musical director)
   
   
4. "Sunday Showcase" (musical director) (2 episodes, 1959)
   ... aka Breck Sunday Showcase (USA: promotional title)
   ... aka NBC Sunday Showcase (USA: complete title)
       - Give My Regards to Broadway (1959) TV episode (musical director)
       - The 1st Annual Grammy Awards (1959) TV episode (musical director)
5. Some of Manie's Friends (1959) (TV) (musical director)
6. "Coke Time" (musical director) (1 episode, 1953)
   ... aka Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
       - Diahann Carroll (1953) TV episode (musical director)
7. "The Frank Sinatra Show" (musical director) (2 episodes, 1950-1951)
       - Episode #1.18 (1951) TV episode (musical director)
       - Episode #1.1 (1950) TV episode (musical director)
   
   
8. Lucky Strike Salesman's Movie 48-A (1948) (musical director)
9. MGM Christmas Trailer (1945) (musical director)
10. The House I Live In (1945) (musical director)
11. Step Lively (1944) (music arranger: Frank Sinatra)
12. Higher and Higher (1943) (music arranger: orchestral arrangements)
13. Girl Crazy (1943) (orchestrator)
14. Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (orchestrator) (as Alec Stordahl)
15. Ship Ahoy (1942) (orchestrator) (as Odd Stordahl) (vocal arranger) (as Odd Stordahl)
    

Composer:

1. "McHale's Navy" (42 episodes, 1962-1963)
       - My Ensign, the Lawyer (1963) TV episode
       - Have Kimono, Will Travel (1963) TV episode
       - To Binghamton with Love (1963) TV episode
       - Is There a Doctor in the Hut? (1963) TV episode
       - McHale and His Schweinhunds (1963) TV episode
         (37 more)
   

Soundtrack:

1. You Won't Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart (1946) (writer: "Day by Day")
   ... aka Community Sing 7661: You Won't Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart (USA: series title)
2. Anchors Aweigh (1945) ("We Hate to Leave" (uncredited), "I Begged Her" (uncredited), "What Makes the Sunset?" (uncredited), "The Charm of You" (uncredited), "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (uncredited))
3. The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) (arranger: "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week")
   

Thanks:

1. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) (acknowledgment)
   

Self:

• 1950s
• 1940s

1. "Sunday Showcase" .... Himself - Music Director (1 episode, 1959)
   ... aka Breck Sunday Showcase (USA: promotional title)
   ... aka NBC Sunday Showcase (USA: complete title)
       - The 1st Annual Grammy Awards (1959) TV episode .... Himself - Music Director
2. "The Frank Sinatra Show" .... Himself - Musician (1 episode, 1951)
       - Episode #2.6 (1951) TV episode .... Himself - Musician
   
   
3. Lucky Strike Salesman's Movie 48-A (1948) .... Himself
4. The House I Live In (1945) (uncredited) .... Himself - orchestra conductor