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“Come on down!!!”…. Edd Kalehoff has spent years crafting television themes such as The Price is Right, that stay with viewers long after the credits roll. Yet the legendary composer still poses the same question before he writes a score. “I envision the finished piece and ask myself, what would I have written if I had heard it and said, gee, I wish I had written that!" Then I just listen to the imaginary music and write it.
It’s an approach that’s served him well in writing over 1,000 thematic compositions that give voice to a show or film's true essence. In addition to his Emmy-award-winning theme for ABC’s Monday Night Football, his work includes themes for The Price is Right, Double Dare, Card Sharks, Finders Keepers, Nick Rocks, ABC World News Tonight, The View, four Super Bowls, and commercials from panty hose to Porsche. Edd is known as one of the greatest musical innovators for merging new technologies, like the Moog synthesizer in the 1970s, with ensembles of live musicians and bigger orchestras. He can also be seen in the documentary, "Moog".
Edd spent his childhood in Mississippi, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the son of E. Woodley, a church organist who instilled in him a love of music, and Dot Dot, a sociology PHD professor who inspired him to follow his passion. “Their words were, “prepare yourself for the job, and the job will come to you.”
