(From the "Boston Globe" )
LOS ANGELES -- Lyle ''Spud" Murphy, the composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher who created music for acts as varied as the Three Stooges and bandleader Benny Goodman but is perhaps best known for a system for composing now widely used by professional musicians, died Aug. 5 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. He was 96. Colleagues said he died from complications from recent surgery.
Mr. Murphy's resume was varied as well as accomplished. He arranged two of Goodman's greatest hits, ''Get Happy" and ''Jingle Bells," and took the children's ditty ''Three Blind Mice" and turned it into the theme for the Three Stooges shows.
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LOS ANGELES -- Lyle ''Spud" Murphy, the composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher who created music for acts as varied as the Three Stooges and bandleader Benny Goodman but is perhaps best known for a system for composing now widely used by professional musicians, died Aug. 5 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. He was 96. Colleagues said he died from complications from recent surgery.
Mr. Murphy's resume was varied as well as accomplished. He arranged two of Goodman's greatest hits, ''Get Happy" and ''Jingle Bells," and took the children's ditty ''Three Blind Mice" and turned it into the theme for the Three Stooges shows.
(Read more at
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/08/14/lyle_spud_murphy_arranged_theme_for_three_stooges_96?mode=PF<P ID="signature">______________
"Be seeing you..."</P>