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Obit: Joe Harnell @ 80...music director on "Mike Douglas Show"

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CrankyYankee

(From variety.com )

Grammy-winning composer, arranger and conductor Joe Harnell died of heart failure July 14 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 80.
Harnell...received three Emmy nominations for his own music: for a 1981 episode of "The Incredible Hulk," the 1983 sci-fi miniseries "V" and in 1985 for the daytime soap "Santa Barbara."

He also scored such weekly series as "The Bionic Woman" and "Alien Nation" and composed several TV movie scores in the 1980s including "Senior Trip,"
"The Liberators" and "Shadow Chasers." Prior to coming to California, he served as musical director on daytime's "Mike Douglas Show" from 1967 to 1973.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117926197?categoryId=25&cs=1

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I think Joe Harnell's combo, prior to joining "The Mike Douglas Show", had a moderate hit record in the early-to-mid 1960's with an instrumental version of "Fly Me To The Moon". It was played a lot of MOR (what we'd today call "adult standards" stations), and after it faded from the charts, would often be played on network-affiliated MOR's as filler until the top-of-the-hour and the start of the network newscast.

Although the Variety.com article quoted by CrankyYankee stated that Harnell started on "Mike Douglas" in 1967, I thought (but I'm not sure) that he started with Douglas when the show moved it's base of operations from Cleveland to Philadelphia around 1965 (part of the FCC-ordered NBC/Group W ownership swap of 1965, which reversed a transaction the two companies made a decade earlier).

I do know that a combo led by a young woman named Ellie Frankel had been the show's resident musical group during the years it originated from Cleveland. I don't think Ms. Frankel nor her combo made the move with the show to Philly.
 
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