Billy Goldenberg, the Emmy-winning composer and songwriter, died Monday night at his home in New York City. He was 84. Goldenberg wrote the themes for such 1970s TV series as “Kojak,” &…
, the Emmy-winning composer and songwriter, died Monday night at his home in New York City. He was 84.,” “Harry O” and “Rhoda,” composed the pilot scores for “Night Gallery” and “Columbo,” and won Emmys for the TV-movie “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” and miniseries “The Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” “King” and “Rage of Angels.”
His versatility was demonstrated by his banjo and guitar theme for the western “Alias Smith and Jones,” dignified French horns for the George Peppard mystery series “Banacek,” eerie synthesizer sounds for “Ghost Story,” and the children’s chorus he featured in “Rhoda.” In late 1968, Goldenberg became assistant to Universal TV music director Stanley Wilson, who assigned him scores for series as “Ironside,” “It Takes a Thief” and “The Name of the Game.” He met Spielberg on “Name of the Game” and later did the director’s television work including “Night Gallery,” “Duel” and three installments of “Amazing Stories” in the 1980s.
But Goldenberg was best known as a television composer, earning additional Emmy nominations for TV-movies “The Marcus-Nelson Murders,” “The Migrants,” “Helter Skelter,” the remake of “Dark Victory,” “The Gangster Chronicles,” “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,” “Bare Essence,” and “Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder.” He also scored “The Atlanta Child Murders,” “Kane and Abel,” “Lucky / Chances” and “Miss Rose White.
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