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Frank Skinner
12+ albums
Soundtrackbritishcomedycomposerstand-up
about
Frank Skinner (31 December 1897 – 9 October 1968) was an American composer and arranger. Skinner was born in Meredosia, Illinois. A graduate of the Chicago Musical College (now known as the Chicago Conservatory of Music), 16-year-old Frank found employment in vaudeville and began playing in local areas with his brother Carl on drums. They were billed as the Skinner Brothers dance band. From there they began playing on the steamboats that went up and down the Illinois river. It was during this time that he began writing and arranging music for dance bands. This work brought him to New York, where from 1925 to 1935 he arranged about 2000 popular songs for Robbins Publishing. By the time he left Manhattan for Hollywood, he had written two books on arranging for dance bands. After a short period at MGM, working on musical settings for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Skinner was hired by Universal Studios. Over the course of his 30 years there, he composed music for more than 200 films. Although he continued to work on musicals, he quickly mastered the art of dramatic scores, eventually earning five Academy Award nominations (1938–43). He died in Beverly Hills, California. His distinctive approach to scoring horror films, such as Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Wolf Man (1941), has been characterized as a ‘passion for chromatic lines … mirrored contours … [and] restrained, yet ominously mythical orchestrations’ (Marcello). He gained new recognition in the 1950s for his lush roman
top songs
albums
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Imitation of Life & Interlude
Imitation of Life & Interlude (Original Movie Soundtrack)
SALTER / SKINNER: Monster Music
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Best of the Secret Policeman's Ball [Part 1]
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Tammy and the Bachelor / Back Street
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Written on the Wind (Original Soundtrack) [1956]
Magnificent Obsession
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Tammy and the Bachelor / Back Street (Original Movie Soundtracks)
Man of a Thousand Faces / Written on the Wind (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)
Magnificent Obsession - Portrait in Black (Original Movie Soundtrack - Remastered 2015)
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SALTER / SKINNER: Sherlock Homes and the Voice of Terror
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Frank Skinner Show