Badalamenti, Angelo 1937- (Andy Badale, Angelo Bagdelamenti)

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Badalamenti, Angelo 1937- (Andy Badale, Angelo Bagdelamenti)

PERSONAL

Born March 22, 1937, in Bensonhurst neighborhood, Brooklyn, NY; raised in New Jersey; married, wife's name Lonny, c. 1968; children: Danielle, Andre (a musician). Education: Attended University of Rochester and Manhattan School of Music; received master's degrees.

Addresses:

Manager—Kraft-Engel Management, 15233 Ventura Blvd., Suite 200, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.

Career:

Composer, conductor, music director, orchestrator, music producer, lyricist, and musician. Composer of advertising jingles, including music for Opium and Obsession perfume commercials, and television theme music; arranger of musical pieces for recording artists, including George Benson, Paul McCartney, Liza Minelli, Melba Moore, and Mel Tillis; occasional songwriter with John Clifford, under the name Andy Badale. Also worked as a voice coach, a junior high school teacher in Brooklyn, NY, a pianist at resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, and as an employee of a music publishing company.

Awards, Honors:

Emmy Award nominations, outstanding achievement in music composition of a dramatic underscore for a television series, and outstanding achievement in main title theme music (with David Lynch), both 1990, for Twin Peaks; Emmy Award nomination (with Lynch), outstanding achievement in song music and lyrics, 1990, for "Into the Night," Twin Peaks; Grammy Award, best pop instrumental performance, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 1990, for "Twin Peaks Theme"; Grammy Award nomination, best instrumental composition written for a motion picture or for television, 1991, for soundtrack recording of Twin Peaks; Independent Spirit Award, best original score, Independent Features Project/West, and Saturn Award, best music, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, both 1993, for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; Cesar Award nomination, best music written for a film, Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, 1996, for La cite des enfants perdus; Golden Globe Award nomination, best original score for a motion picture, Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best original score, and Sierra Award nomination, best score, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, all 2000, for The Straight Story; Golden Globe Award nomination, best original score for a motion picture, American Film Institute Award nomination, composer of the year, nomination for Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Saturn Award nomination, best music, Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination (with others), best original score, and Online Film Critics Society Award, best original score, all 2002, for Mulholland Drive; Cesar Award nomination, best music written for a film, and World Soundtrack Award, soundtrack composer of the year, both 2005, for Un long dimanche de fiancailles; Technical Excellence and Creativity Award nomination, Mix Foundation, 2007; won at least eight awards from American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Music director and (uncredited) conductor, Blue Velvet, Di Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986.

Orchestrator and musical director, Tough Guys Don't Dance (also known as Norman Mailer's "Tough Guys Don't Dance"), Cannon, 1987.

Orchestrator, Christmas Vacation (also known as National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation" and National Lampoon's Winter Holiday), 1989.

Orchestrator, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (also known as Bandini, John Fante's "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," Aspetta primavera Bandini, and Le ragioni del cuore), 1989.

Orchestrator, music director, and conductor, Cousins (also known as A Touch of Infidelity), Paramount, 1989.

Orchestral music producer, Parents, Vestron, 1989.

Orchestrator and keyboard performer, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (also known as Twin Peaks), New Line Cinema, 1992.

Orchestrator, music director, and conductor, Lost Highway, October Films, 1997.

Orchestrator, Arlington Road, Screen Gems, 1999.

Orchestrator and conductor of score, and arranger and producer of the song "Maya, Mayi Ma-The Celebration," Holy Smoke, Miramax, 1999.

Orchestrator and conductor, The Straight Story (also known as Une histoire vraie), Buena Vista, 1999.

Orchestrator and producer of the song "Beached," The Beach, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

Music conductor, Mulholland Drive (also known as Mulholland Dr.), Universal Focus, 2001.

Orchestrator, Secretary, Lions Gate Films, 2002.

Score producer, The Wicker Man, Warner Bros., 2006.

Film Appearances:

(As Andy Badale) Piano player, Blue Velvet, Di Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986.

Luigi Castigliani, Mulholland Drive (also known as Mulholland Dr.), Universal Focus, 2001.

Television Work; Series:

Music orchestrator, director, conductor, and musician, Twin Peaks, ABC, 1990-91.

Music performer, Parashat Ha-Shavua, 2006.

Television Work; Specials:

Producer, Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, 1990.

Music conductor, Hotel Room (also known as David Lynch's "Hotel Room"), HBO, 1993.

Television Work; Other:

Music orchestrator, director, conductor, and musician, Twin Peaks (pilot), ABC, 1990-91.

Orchestrator and conductor of main theme music, The Last Don (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don"), 1997.

Orchestrator, musician, and song producer, "Apple Tree," "Faded," and "She's Gone," Julie Johnson (movie), here! TV, 2001.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Musician, Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, 1990.

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch, 1990.

Conductor of opening song, Cerimonia d'inauguracio jocs olimpics Barcelona '92, 1992.

Pretty As a Picture: The Art of David Lynch, 1997.

A Very Long Engagement: On the Set of a Romantic Epic, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"David Lynch: Don't Look at Me," Cinema, de notre temps, 1989.

Pianist, premiere episode, On the Air, 1992.

"David Lynch Special," Tracks, 2007.

Television Appearances; Other:

Der Klang der bilder, 1995.

Stage Appearances:

Musician, Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1990.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Mysteries of Love, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists Home Entertainment, 2002.

Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, 2004.

Une annee au front, les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiancailles," Warner Bros., 2004.

Le son de Lynch, Nomad Films International, 2005.

Dark Water: Extraordinary Ensemble, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005.

Albums as Musician or Conductor:

Blue Velvet (soundtrack recording), Varese Sarabande, 1986.

Cousins (soundtrack recording), Warner Bros., 1988.

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (soundtrack recording), 1990.

(With David Lynch and Julee Cruise) Floating into the Night, 1990.

Twin Peaks (soundtrack recording), Warner Bros., 1991.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (soundtrack recording), Warner Bros., 1992.

(With Tim Booth) Booth and the Bad Angel, 1996.

Lost Highway (soundtrack recording), 1997.

The Straight Story (soundtrack recording), Windham Hill, 1999.

Holy Smoke! (soundtrack recording), Milan, 1999.

The Beach, Sire, 2000.

Cabin Fever (soundtrack album), 2002.

Also recorded the albums Andy Badale and The Nashville Beer Garden Band. Badalamenti's film music has been included in numerous soundtrack recordings; many compositions have also been recorded by other artists.

Soundtrack Albums as Composer:

Weeds, 1987.

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors, Colosseum, 1987.

Comfort of Strangers, Cam Soundtrack, 1990.

The City of Lost Children, Point Music, 1996.

Arlington Road, Will, 1999.

A Very Long Engagement, WEA, 2004.

Dark Water, Hollywood, 2005.

Wicker Man, Silva Screen, 2006.

Albums as Producer:

Marianne Faithfull—A Secret Life, 1995.

WRITINGS

Film Music:

(As Andy Badale) Law and Disorder, Columbia, 1974.

(As Andy Badale) Score and title song lyrics, Across the Great Divide, Pacific International Enterprises, 1976.

(Including songs "Blue Star" and "Mysteries of Love") Blue Velvet, Di Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1986.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III: Dream Warriors (also known as A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III), New Line Cinema, 1987.

(Including songs "You'll Come Back (You Always Do)" and "Real Man") Tough Guys Don't Dance (also known as Norman Mailer's "Tough Guys Don't Dance"), Cannon, 1987.

(Including song "Mysteries of Love") Weeds, Di Laurentiis Entertainment Group, 1987.

(Including song "I Love You for Today") Cousins (also known as A Touch of Infidelity), Paramount, 1989.

(With Jonathan Elias and Sherman Foote) Parents, Vestron, 1989.

Christmas Vacation (also known as National Lampoon's "Christmas Vacation" and National Lampoon's Winter Holiday), Warner Bros., 1989.

Wait Until Spring, Bandini (also known as Bandini, John Fante's "Wait Until Spring, Bandini," Aspetta primavera Bandini, and Le ragioni del cuore), Orion, 1989.

The Comfort of Strangers (also known as Cortesie per gli ospiti), Skouras, 1990.

(Including song "Up in Flames") Wild at Heart (also known as David Lynch's "Wild at Heart"), Samuel Goldwyn Films, 1990.

(Including songs "The Black Dog Runs at Night," "Falling," "Love Theme," "Moving through Time," "Questions in a World of Blue," "A Real Indication," "She Would Die for Love," "Sycamore Trees" and "The Voice of Love") Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, New Line Cinema, 1992.

Naked in New York, Fine Line, 1994.

(Including song "Who Will Take Your Dreams Away") La cite des enfants perdus (also known as The City of Lost Children, La ciudad de los ninos perdidos, La ciutat dels nens perduts, and Die Stadt der verlorenen kinder), 1995.

(Including theme music) Invasion of Privacy, Trimark Pictures, 1996.

Lost Highway, October Films, 1997.

The Blood Oranges, Trimark Pictures, 1997.

Arlington Road, Screen Gems, 1999.

The Straight Story (also known as Une histoire vraie), Buena Vista, 1999.

Holy Smoke!, Miramax, 1999.

(Including theme music) The Story of a Bad Boy, 1999.

(Including songs "Beached" and "Bloody Boy") The Beach, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

A Piece of Eden, Film Acres, 2000.

Mulholland Drive (also known as Mulholland Dr.), Universal Focus, 2001.

Suspended Animation (also known as Mayhem), First Run Features, 2001.

Cet amour la (also known as This Very Love), 2001, subtitled version, New Yorker, 2003.

Rabbits, Davidlynch.com, 2002.

Mysteries of Love (documentary), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, 2002.

Secretary, Lions Gate Films, 2002.

Darkened Room (short film), Davidlynch.com, 2002.

L'adversaire (also known as The Adversary and El adversario), Paradiso Home Entertainment, 2002.

Auto Focus, Sony Pictures, 2002.

Cabin Fever, Lions Gate Films, 2003.

Resistance, A-Film Distribution, 2003.

Indoor Fireworks (short film), Sleeve Monkey Film, 2003.

Push (short film), 2004.

Evilenko, Mikado, 2004.

Un long dimanche de fiancailles (also known as A Very Long Engagement), Warner Independent Pictures, 2004.

The Monster of Rostov, 2004.

NaPolA (also known as Before the Fall, Before the Fall (Napola), Napola—Elite fuer den Fuehrer, and Napola: Hitler's Elite), Picture This! Entertainment, 2005.

Dominion: Prequel to "The Exorcist" (also known as Paul Schrader's "Exorcist:" The Original Prequel), Warner Bros., 2005.

Dark Water, Buena Vista, 2005.

The Wicker Man, Warner Bros., 2006.

The Eye, Lions Gate Films, 2007.

Songs Featured in Films:

(As Andy Badale) Gordon's War, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973.

"Fall in Love with Me," The Very Thought of You, Miramax, 1999.

"Who Will Take My Dreams Away?," Girl on the Bridge, Paramount Vantage, 1999.

"Sleep," Son frere (also known as His Brother), Strand Releasing, 2004.

"What You Want," Take the Lead, New Line Cinema, 2006.

Television Music; Series:

Score, theme music, and songs "Falling" and "The Nightingale," Twin Peaks, ABC, 1990-91.

On the Air, 1992.

(As Angelo Bagdelamenti) Main theme music, Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo, 1994.

Main title theme music, The Profiler, NBC, 1996-98.

Cracker (also known as Cracker: Mind Over Murder and Fitz), 1997.

According to some sources, also wrote songs for Captain Kangaroo.

Television Music; Specials:

(With David Lynch and Julee Cruise) Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, 1990.

Song "The Flaming Arrow," Cerimonia d'inauguracio jocs olimpics Barcelona '92, 1992.

Main theme music "Dark Spanish Symphony," The Donner Party, PBS, 1992.

Hotel Room (also known as David Lynch's "Hotel Room"), HBO, 1993.

A Very Long Engagement: On the Set of a Romantic Epic, 2004.

Inside the Actors Studio: 10th Anniversary Special, Bravo, 2004.

Television Music: Movies:

Witch Hunt, 1994.

Forever Mine, Starz!, 1999.

Julie Johnson, here! TV, 2001.

The Lathe of Heaven, Arts and Entertainment, 2002.

Theme music, Undefeated, HBO, 2003.

Theme music, Frankenstein, USA Network, 2004.

Television Music: Miniseries:

Main theme music, The Last Don (also known as Mario Puzo's "The Last Don"), 1997.

Les liaisons dangereuses (also known as Dangerous Liaisons), WE Network, 2003.

Television Music; Pilots:

Twin Peaks, ABC, 1990.

Television Music; Episodic:

Song "Dark Lolita," "De nye hjerter," Arhundredets vidner, 1998.

Video Music:

Les enfants de la cite perdue (also known as Les enfants de la cite perdue. Visite sur le tournage du film de Caro & Jeunet: La cite des enfants perdus), 1995.

Une annee au front, les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiancailles," Warner Bros., 2005.

Fahrenheit (video game; also known as Indigo Prophecy), Atari, 2005.