Ken Welch, a composer and musician who, with his wife and co-writer Marilyn “Mitzie” Welch composed music for The Carol Burnett Show and wrote or produced material for TV specials starring Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton and Olivia Newton-John, among many others, died Jan. 26 at his home in Encino, CA. He was 92.
Mitzie Welch died in 2014.
His death was announced today by his family, daughters Julie Welch and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Gillian Welch (her “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is nominated for Best Original Song).
Nominated for 19 Emmy Awards and winner of five, Ken Welch began his musical career writing and producing material for the 1961-62 Garry Moore Show. He accompanied Burnett on auditions in the late 1950s, and in 1957 wrote her breakthrough novelty song “I Made A Fool Of Myself Over John Foster Dulles.”
In 1962, he wrote...
Mitzie Welch died in 2014.
His death was announced today by his family, daughters Julie Welch and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter Gillian Welch (her “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is nominated for Best Original Song).
Nominated for 19 Emmy Awards and winner of five, Ken Welch began his musical career writing and producing material for the 1961-62 Garry Moore Show. He accompanied Burnett on auditions in the late 1950s, and in 1957 wrote her breakthrough novelty song “I Made A Fool Of Myself Over John Foster Dulles.”
In 1962, he wrote...
- 2/5/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald is planning a feature film titled Bud & Bill that will explore the unlikely friendship between the father of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the father of one of the victims in the April 1995 attack. Greenwald and his producing partner Alys Shanti have tapped scribe Donald Martin to write the script for the feature project, and Martin has met with the two men -- Bill McVeigh and Bud Welch -- to discuss their relationship, which began during the course of Timothy McVeigh's trial. The younger McVeigh was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty on 11 counts related to the bombing, which took the lives of 168 people, including Welch's daughter, Julie Welch. He was executed on June 11, 2001.
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