death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date article_title birth_name
18 september 1992 culver city , california chile herbert w. spencer 7 april 1905 herbert w. spencer
 herbert winfield spencer
herbert w. spencer

herbert winfield spencer -lrb- april 7 , 1905 - september 18 , 1992 -rrb- was a film and television composer and orchestrator .
spencer gained industry fame when he teamed up with fellow 20th century fox orchestrator earle hagen in 1953 to create the spencer-hagen orchestra .
they recorded albums for an offshoot of the rca label `` x '' , and liberty , and also formed a film scoring service called music scoring , inc. -lrb- msi -rrb- .
spencer and earle scored many early sitcoms and other television shows , including `` where 's raymond ? ''
, renamed the `` the ray bolger show '' , `` it 's always jan '' starring janis paige , `` my sister eileen '' and `` the danny thomas show '' .
earle wrote the underscore , while herb wrote the arrangements .
occasionally , these chores overlapped , when time permitted .
msi was dissolved about 1960 , and herb went on to score `` the joey bishop show '' .
spencer is also remembered for co-writing `` the fishin ' hole '' , the andy griffith show theme .
spencer also helped orchestrate such noted film musicals as `` carousel '' -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , `` holiday inn '' -lrb- 1942 -rrb- , `` hello , dolly ! ''
-lrb- 1969 -rrb- , `` funny girl '' -lrb- 1968 -rrb- , `` gentlemen prefer blondes '' -lrb- 1953 -rrb- , and `` call me madam '' -lrb- 1953 -rrb- , and received the credit `` musical associate '' for his work on the film `` man of la mancha '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , also a musical .
-lsb- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817965/] later on in life , spencer was known mostly for his collaborations with composer john williams as orchestrator and arranger -lrb- from 1967 until his death -rrb- for many of his film scores , such as the original `` star wars '' trilogy , `` e.t. the extra-terrestrial '' and the `` indiana jones '' film series .
he orchestrated the stage musicals `` thomas and the king '' -lrb- for john williams -rrb- and andré previn 's `` the good companions '' .
neither show was a success .
spencer was also principal orchestrator for the original version of `` clash of the titans '' -lrb- 1981 -rrb- .
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