Delia, Joe (Joseph Delia)

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Delia, Joe (Joseph Delia)

PERSONAL

Born in Brooklyn, NY. Education: Studied composition, arranging, piano, and bass with Don Sebesky, Eddie Gomez, and Jimmy Garrison.

Addresses:

Agent—Soundtrack Music Associates, 2229 Cloverfield Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405.

Career:

Composer and musician. The Bruthers (music group), singer and keyboard player; composed jingles for major advertising campaigns; played keyboards, wrote arrangements, co-wrote songs, and toured with many musicians; scored industrial films; music director and piano player for the live Buster Poindexter Show, performed by David Johansen; record producer. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, composer in residence for two years.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Sound recording, The Driller Killer, Rochelle Films, 1979.

Music performer, Ms. 45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance and Rape Squad), Rochelle Films, 1981.

Song arranger ("Sentimental Reasons"), China Girl, Vestron Pictures, 1987.

Piano player, Drunks, Shooting Gallery, 1995.

Musician at Chez Lounge, The Funeral, October Films, 1996.

Song performer and song arranger The Blackout, Trimark Pictures, 1997.

Orchestrator and piano, No Looking Back, Gramercy Pictures, 1998.

Keyboards, score arranger, and score producer, The Tao of Steve, Sony Pictures Classics, 2000.

Keyboards, bass, and guitar performer, music editing, music engineer, and song performer, My Best Friend's Wife (also known as Grownups and Steve & Claire & Eric & Ami), Curb Entertainment, 2001.

Sound mixing engineer, musician, and orchestrator, Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, Universal, 2005.

Film Appearances:

(Uncredited) Harlem ballroom band member, King of New York, Seven Arts Entertainment, 1990.

Himself, A Short Film About the Long Career of Abel Ferrara (documentary short), Artisan Entertainment, 2004.

Television Music Director; Specials:

Richard Belzer: Another Lone Nut, HBO, 1997.

Also worked as music director, Richard Belzer Live, Showtime.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(Uncredited) Musician, "The Dutch Oven," Miami Vice, NBC, 1985.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

(As Joseph Delia) Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy (also known as 9 Lives of a Wet Pussycat), Navaron Films, 1976.

(As Joseph Delia) The Driller Killer, Rochelle Films, 1979.

Ms. 45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance and Rape Squad), Rochelle Films, 1981.

China Girl, Vestron Pictures, 1987.

Candy Mountain, International Film Exchange, 1987.

Freeway, New World Pictures, 1988.

Wolfpack, Braveworld, 1988.

Caged Fury, Columbia TriStar, 1989.

King of New York, Seven Arts Entertainment, 1990.

Body Trouble (also known as Joker's Wild), 1992.

Bad Lieutenant, Aries Films, 1992.

Body Snatchers, Warner Bros., 1993.

Dangerous Games (also known as Snake Eyes), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1993.

Drunks, Shooting Gallery, 1995.

The Addiction, October Films, 1995.

Twilight Highway, 1995.

The Funeral, October Films, 1996.

The Blackout, Trimark Pictures, 1997.

No Looking Back, Gramercy Pictures, 1998.

Fever, Lions Gate Films, 1999.

Ricky 6 (also known as Say You Love Satan), Shooting Gallery, 2000.

The Tao of Steve, Sony Pictures Classics, 2000.

My Best Friend's Wife (also known as Grownups and Steve & Claire & Eric & Ami), Curb Entertainment, 2001.

Bridget, 2002.

Bitter Jester (documentary), 2003.

Bought & Sold (also known as A Jersey Tale), Artisan Entertainment, 2003.

Incident at Blood Gorge, CustomFlix, 2005.

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, Universal, 2005.

Television Scores; Movies:

The Substitute 2: School's Out (also known as The Substitute II and The Substitute: Out of Siberia), HBO, 1988.

The Enemy Within, HBO, 1994.

Time Served, 1999.

Television Scores; Specials:

Belzer on Broadway, Showtime, 1992.

Richard Belzer: Another Lone Nut, HBO, 1997.

The Heat: Inside the Inferno, The Learning Channel, 1999.

Satan in the Suburbs, Discovery Channel, 2000.

Also scored Subways Stories, HBO; The Human Project, Discovery Channel.

Television Scores; Pilots:

The Loner, ABC, 1988.

Television Scores; Episodic:

War of the Worlds (also known as War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion), syndicated, 1989-90.

Lost Civilizations (also known as Time Life's "Lost Civilizations"), NBC, 1994.

Dellaventura, CBS, 1997-98.

Digging for the Truth, History Channel, 2005-2007.

Also scored Madison's Adventures, BBC.

Television Additional Scores; Episodic:

"Brother's Keeper," Miami Vice, NBC, 1984.

Television Additional Music; Episodic:

Pee-wee's Playhouse, CBS, 1986.

"Partners of the Heart," The American Experience, PBS, 2003.

Video Game Scores:

Eternal Champions, Sega of America, 1993.

Stage Scores:

Co-wrote Lollapalooza, New York Shakespeare Festival.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Joe Delia Website,http://www.joedeliamusic.com, September 10, 2007.