Jerry Fielding

Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding
Birth name	Joshua Itzhak Feldman
Also known as	Gerald Feldman, credited as Jerry Feldman prior to June, 1947
Born	June 17, 1922; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Origin	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	February 17, 1980 (aged 57); Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Radio; record, film score and television composer; conductor; bandleader; musical director;

Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)^[5] was an American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer who emerged in the 1960s after a decade on the blacklist,^{[citation needed]} to create boldly diverse and evocative Oscar-nominated scores, primarily for gritty, often brutally savage, films in western and crime action genres, including the Sam Peckinpah movies The Wild Bunch (1969) and Straw Dogs (1971).

^ Martin Harry Greenberg (1 November 1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books.
^ "Music Popularity Chart: New Records". Billboard. June 15, 1946. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
^ Lohman, Sidney. "Radio Row: One Thing and Another". The New York Times. April 27, 1947. Retrieved 2014-04-14 via ProQuest. "Jack Paar, comedian, will occupy Jack Benny's time spot (Sunday, 7 P.M., NBC), beginning June 1. Music will be provided by the Page Cavanaugh Trio and Jerry Fielding's Orchestra."
^ Blank, Edward L.. "Fielding Mercurial Over Film Music; Changed Name". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 14, 1972. Retrieved 2014-04-15. "He worked for Kay Kyser under the name Feldman but had to change it when he was 23 to get a job on a Jack Paar show."
^ Redman, Nick. "Fielding, Jerry". Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen E.; Markoe, Arnold (1995). Dictionary of American Biography; Supplement 10: 1976–1980. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 238-239. ISBN 0-684-19399-X.

[Greenberg1979-1] Martin Harry Greenberg (1 November 1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books.

[TCReview-2] "Music Popularity Chart: New Records". Billboard. June 15, 1946. Retrieved 2014-04-14.

[JackPaarJob-3] Lohman, Sidney. "Radio Row: One Thing and Another". The New York Times. April 27, 1947. Retrieved 2014-04-14 via ProQuest. "Jack Paar, comedian, will occupy Jack Benny's time spot (Sunday, 7 P.M., NBC), beginning June 1. Music will be provided by the Page Cavanaugh Trio and Jerry Fielding's Orchestra."

[1972_PP_interview-4] Blank, Edward L.. "Fielding Mercurial Over Film Music; Changed Name". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 14, 1972. Retrieved 2014-04-15. "He worked for Kay Kyser under the name Feldman but had to change it when he was 23 to get a job on a Jack Paar show."

[NR95-5] Redman, Nick. "Fielding, Jerry". Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen E.; Markoe, Arnold (1995). Dictionary of American Biography; Supplement 10: 1976–1980. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 238-239. ISBN 0-684-19399-X.

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