Bob Thompson (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bob Thompson (musician)

American musician

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1924

Place of Birth: San Jose, California, United States

Date of Death: 21-May-2013

Profession: composer, conductor, bandleader

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Robert Lamar Thompson (August 24, 1924 – May 21, 2013) was a composer, arranger, and orchestra leader from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Active in Los Angeles, Thompson was a recording artist for RCA Victor and Dot Records, scored film and television soundtracks, and wrote musical accompaniments for commercials.
He composed, arranged, and conducted orchestra for such artists as Rosemary Clooney, Mae West, Julie London, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Duane Eddy, Judy Garland, Jerry Lewis, and Phil Ochs.
In an interview, Van Dyke Parks, who hired Thompson to arrange Canon in D for Clang of the Yankee Reaper, said: "In terms of raw invention, I place Bob in the pantheon of Spike Jones, Les Paul, and Juan García Esquivel.
Like Beethoven, they were 'populists' in good heart.
They meant to appeal to the masses, and did so, by enlightening them."Thompson is considered a prime exponent of what has belatedly been termed "Space Age Pop," or "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music." This style of breezy, experimental orchestral music became popular in the 1950s and 1960s following the introduction of the long-playing microgroove record and the advent of high-fidelity and stereo home audio systems, which allowed enhanced sonic reproduction.
Thompson: "was a seminal figure, a major inventor of this kind of music."