Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 - February 17, 1980) was an American film com… Read Full Bio ↴Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 - February 17, 1980) was an American film composer.
Although best remembered for the bold, evocative film scores he composed for tough-guy filmmakers Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood, Jerry Fielding was also a premier arranger of the swing era, later headlining a series of space age pop LPs as well. Born Joshua Feldman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fielding was a child prodigy who claimed among his earliest influences Bernard Herrmann 's pioneering scores for the radio dramas of Orson Welles.
A pupil of theatrical conductor Max Atkins, he was regularly writing arrangements for theatrical pit bands while still in high school, and at 18 was hired by guitar great Alvino Rey. When Rey relocated his musical enterprise from New York City to Los Angeles, he brought Fielding with him and by the mid-'40s he was an in-demand freelance arranger, writing charts for swing icons including Tommy Dorsey, Kay Kyser, and Charlie Barnet. Fielding also wrote extensively for radio, including programs hosted by Hoagy Carmichael, Kate Smith, and The Andrews Sisters, and was eventually named musical director of The Jack Paar Show.
By 1952 Fielding helmed his own jazz orchestra, which was the house band on Groucho Marx's popular television game show You Bet Your Life, but as a self-confessed "loudmouthed crusader" who received death threats for hiring African-American musicians, it was inevitable that he would run afoul of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist witch hunts. Called to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Fielding took the Fifth Amendment, and his Hollywood career crumbled. Fielding sought refuge in Las Vegas, where he served as musical director for acts including Abbott & Costello and Debbie Reynolds. He also signed a record contract with Decca, cutting a series of jazz-inspired discs including Sweet with a Beat, Swingin' in Hi-Fi, and Fielding's Formula.
The emergence of stereo technology galvanized Fielding's efforts, and later LPs including Magnificence in Brass and Near East Brass remain favorites of exotica collectors. With McCarthy's reign of terror finally at an end, Fielding returned to Hollywood in 1962, and at the recommendation of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo he was hired to write his first feature score for Otto Preminger's political thriller Advise and Consent. A score rich in atmosphere and melancholy — two emerging signatures of Fielding's work — it was followed by a series of lighthearted television efforts including themes for the series Hogan's Heroes and Run Buddy Run. In 1966, he teamed with two-fisted filmmaker Sam Peckinpah for the telefilm Noon Wine, inaugurating an often contentious creative partnership that won Fielding Academy Award nominations for 1969's The Wild Bunch and 1971's Straw Dogs. Fielding also scored several films for Clint Eastwood, earning a third Oscar nomination for his work on 1976's The Outlaw Josey Wales.
While in Canada scoring the feature Below the Belt, Fielding suffered a fatal heart attack on February 17, 1980. He was just 57 years old.

When I Grow Too Old To Dream
Jerry Fielding Lyrics

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Diana Krall When I grow too old to dream, I will have…
Dick Haymes We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Doc Cheatham We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Gregg Stafford We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Hammerstein/Wood/Romberg We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Hampton Hawes We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Helen Humes We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Howard Fishman We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Irene Dunne We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Jeff Barnhart We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Jerry Fielding and His Orchestra We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Jerry Hadley;Paul Gemignani We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Jerry Jerome We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
JO STAFFORD / DICK HAYMES We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Joan Regan We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Julie London We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Lannie Garrett We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Lawrence Welk We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Louis Jordan & Tympany 5 We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Mann Carl We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Monty Sunshine Jazz Band We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Nat "King" Cole and His Trio We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Nat King Cole When I grow too old to dream I'll have you to…
Nat King Cole & His Trio We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Ralph Sutton We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Ray Conniff We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Ray Conniff And Billy Butterfield We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Ray Conniff;Billy Butterfield We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Roland Hanna Trio We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Romberg We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Rose Murphy We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Rose-Marie We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Roy Milton When I grow too old to dream I'll have you to…
Sheila Jordan We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Slim Whitman We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
Teddi King When I grow too old to dream I will have…
Tempo Jazzmen We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
The Cats & The Fiddle We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
The Clubmen and Vera Lynn and Woolf Phillips And His Orchestra When I grow too old to dream I'll have you to…
The Everly Brothers We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
The Howard Fishman Quartet We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
The London Promenade Orchestra We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
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Tony Evans And His Orchestra We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
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Whitman Slim We have been gay, going our way Life has been beautiful,…
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