Stu Phillips
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Stu Phillips is a television and film music composer. He is best known for composing the theme tunes to many popular television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Quincy, and The Hardy Boys Mysteries. Phillips was also involved in scoring television shows all throughout that period and composed music for episodes of shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man, McCloud, The Fall Guy, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Automan.
Phillips is also well known as the conductor of the Capitol Records studio orchestra Hollyridge Strings. The Hollyridge Strings are noteworthy for mirroring most of the output of the Beatles and the Beach Boys with easy listening companions.
He is now semi-retired and focusing his energies on orchestrating classical music by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.
[edit] Film music
- Hells Angels on Wheels
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
- The Man From the Diner's Club
- Ride the Wild Surf
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
- Battlestar Galactica
- Angels From Hell
- Run, Angel, Run
- The Losers
- The Name of the Game is Kill
- The Curious Female
- Macon County Line
- Pick-up 0n 101
- The Seven Minutes
- Fast Charlie-The Moonbeam Rider
- The Appointment
- Simon-King of the Witches
- Follow Me
- "Mad Dog" Coll
- The Meal
- 2000 Years Later
- Throw Out the Anchor
- The Gay Deceivers
[edit] Television music
- The Donna Reed Show
- The Monkees
- McCloud
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Switch
- Quincy
- The Hardy Boys Mysteries
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- B.J. and the Bear
- Battlestar Galactica
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
- Galactica 1980
- The Fall Guy
- Knight Rider
- Gidget
- Automan
- The Highwayman
- Midnight Lace/TV Movie
- Waikiki/TV Movie
- Evening in Byzantium/TV Movie
