David Shire

Person · Open Library

Works

8

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Film & TV

Buffalo, New York, USA

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer. He has scored Broadway musicals such as Baby (1983) and Big (1996) and films such as The Conversation (1974), Saturday Night Fever (1977), and Zodiac (2007). He was married to Talia Shire from 1970 - 1980 and has been married to Didi Conn since 1984.

Known for

• Romantic Mysticism: The Music of Billy Goldenberg — Self - Composer2022
• My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story — Self2009
• Lights, Action, Music — Self2007
• Harry and Walter Go to New York — Piano Player1976
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961

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Listeners

113,898

Total plays

780,273

David Shire (born in Buffalo, New York, USA on 3 July 1937) is an American Pianist, songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. Some of his best known works include the soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Night on Disco Mountain", an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film, Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" o

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Lee

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Buffalo

Spouse

Didi Conn

Occupation

actor

Educated at

Yale University

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

Academy Award for Best Original Song

Instrument

piano

Official website

davidshiremusic.com

Image

David Shire05.JPG

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