Deadly work...

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"JERRY FIELDING GAVE A LECTURE TO music students in 1979, during which he was asked about scoring for television. He said he appreciated the opportunity it gave for experimentation but that the deadlines were brutal. "It's bad for the soul, it really is," he said. "It's bad for the heart, it's bad for a lot of things," he continued. "I had two coronaries five years ago trying to make a two-hour season-opener of McMillan and Wife. I had done it once, I had been up five straight days and nights when they got the word back from the network the entire picture had to be restructured—they re-cut it, it became another film, they cut one character out completely. We re-spotted, whole thing done again in four days, two hours. Wound up in UCLA. And was there again another five weeks after that, and from now till the end of my time, my life is not gonna be the same. "That was a bit much to throw on the line for Universal," Fielding mused. "It's not as much, however, as Oliver Nelson paid. He died on the stage. And shortly after that Bernard Herrmann went to the hotel immediately after a session and died. It's a man killer."

HERRMANN'S CHRISTMAS EVE DEATH AFTER TAXI DRIVER IS WELL known—as is Georges Delerue's fatal stroke while recording Rich in Love in 1992—but not Nelson's. Nelson died in his Los Angeles home on October 28,1975, but it is assumed that his heavy workload as the composer of The Six Million Dollar Man—as well as a jazz composer, arranger, performer and teacher—led to his early demise. He was 43. The year after he said the above words. Fielding himself perished in a hotel room, on February 17, 1980, after slogging through the Toronto winter scoring a horror film by the morbid title of Funeral Home. He was 57. A smoker and workaholic, blacklisted as a young man, he was driven by an integrity that consumed him. "It's murder—if you've got any conscience about your work," he told the students. "It's very easy to go in and spit out two episodes of The Incredible Hulk with a bunch of cliched nonsense that you do hear going by. I don't hear it, however, because I don't watch it anymore, I refuse. I can't stand it."

JERRY FIELDING AND OLIVER NELSON BOTH gave their lives for their art. This 2CD set features some of their little known work for M-G-M during the 1970s."

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