David Shire Biography (1937-)

Full name, David Lee Shire; born July 3, 1937, in Buffalo, NY; son of IrvingDaniel and Esther Miriam (maiden name, Sheinberg) Shire; married Talia Rose Coppola (an actress; professional name, Talia Shire), March 29, 1970, (divorced); married Didi Conn (an actress), February 11, 1984; children: (first marriage) Matthew Orlando; (second marriage) Daniel Joshua. Addresses: Contact: Geibelson Young and Co., 2029 Century Park E., Suite 750, Los Angeles, CA 90067-2908.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Composer
Birth Details: July 3, 1937; Buffalo, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Music supervisor, The Fortune (also known as Spite and Malice), Columbia, 1975
Producer of electronic music, 2010 (also known as 2010: The Year We Make Contact), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
Music conductor, Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures ofthe Devil in the Sky), Buena Vista, 1985
Film Appearances
First piano player, Harry and Walter Go to New York, Columbia, 1976
Television Work
Movies
Music conductor, Alone (also known as Horton Foote's Alone), Showtime, 1997
Music conductor, Ms. Scrooge, USA Network, 1997
Specials
Music director, Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood, ABC, 1993
RECORDINGS
Albums
Saturday Night Fever, 1977
Starting Here, Starting Now, 1977
Baby, 1984
Return to Oz, 1985
Closer Than Ever, 1990
David Shire at the Movies, 1991
Big, 1996
WRITINGS
Film Scores, Except Where Indicated
Title song, I'd Rather Be Rich, 1964
One More Train to Rob, Universal, 1971
(And song, "Having the Time of Our Lives") Summertree, Columbia, 1971
Skin Game, Warner Bros., 1971
Drive, He Said, Columbia, 1971
To Find a Man, Columbia, 1972
(Adapter) Steelyard Blues, Warner Bros., 1973
Two People, Universal, 1973
Showdown, Universal, 1973
Class of '44 (also known as Tre Kompisar), Warner Bros., 1973
The Conversation, Paramount, 1974
The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (also known as Pelham 1-2-3), United Artists, 1974
(Adapter) The Fortune (also known as Spite and Malice), Columbia, 1975
Farewell, My Lovely, Avco Embassy, 1975
The Hindenburg, Universal, 1975
(And song "Nobody's Perfect") Harry and Walter Go to New York,Columbia, 1976
All the President's Men, Warner Bros., 1976
The Big Bus, Paramount, 1976
(Adapter, with Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb) Saturday Night Fever, Paramount, 1977
(And songs, "Two of Us" and "Doin' Fine") Straight Time, Warner Bros., 1978
(And songs, "The Promise" and "I'll Never Say Goodbye") The Promise (also known as Face of a Stranger), Universal, 1979
Old Boyfriends, Avco Embassy, 1979
(And title song) Fast Break, Columbia, 1979
(And song, "It Goes like It Goes"), Norma Rae, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979
"Halfway Home," The Earthling, Filmways, 1980
(And song, "I Need You Strong for Me") The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Avco Embassy, 1981
Only When I Laugh (also known as It Hurts Only When I Laughand Neil Simon's Only When I Laugh), Columbia, 1981
(And song, "Baby Talk") Paternity, Paramount, 1981
The World According to Garp, Warner Bros., 1982
Max Dugan Returns, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982
2010 (also known as 2010: The Year We Make Contact), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1984
Oh, God! You Devil, Warner Bros., 1984
Return to Oz (also known as The Adventures of the Devil in theSky), Buena Vista, 1985
(And song, "Come and Follow Me") Short Circuit, TriStar, 1986
'night, Mother, Universal, 1986
Backfire, ITC, 1987
Vice Versa, 1988
Monkey Shines (also known as Ella and Monkey Shines: AnExperiment in Fear), 1988
Bed and Breakfast, 1992
The Journey Inside, 1993
One Night Stand (also known as Before the Night), 1995
"Ethnic Majority," Kevin and Perry Go Large, 2000
Television Scores, Except Where Indicated
Series
McCloud, NBC, 1970
Sarge, NBC, 1971
The Sixth Sense, 1972
Lucas Tanner, NBC, 1974
Joe and Sons, CBS, 1975
Three for the Road, CBS, 1975
Sirota's Court, NBC, 1976
(And theme, "There's a New Girl in Town") Alice, CBS, 1976
The Practice, NBC, 1976
(And theme) Tales of the Unexpected (also known as Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected and A Twist in the Tale), NBC, 1977
Theme music, Flying High, 1978
Darkroom, 1981
Theme music, Hothouse, ABC, 1988
(And theme) Brewster Place, ABC, 1990
Room for Two, Fox, 1992
Television Scores

Miniseries
Echoes in the Darkness, CBS, 1987
The Women of Brewster Place, ABC, 1989
I Know My First Name Is Steven (also known as The Missing Years), NBC, 1989
Common Ground, CBS, 1990
The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (also known as The Great Los Angeles Earthquake), NBC, 1990
The Kennedys of Massachusetts, ABC, 1990
Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, NBC, 1993
Remember (also known as Barbara Taylor Bradford's Remember), CBS, 1993
Streets of Laredo (also known as Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo), CBS, 1995
Television Scores, Except Where Indicated
Movies
McCloud: Who Killed Miss U.S.A.&quest; (also known as Portraitof a Dead Girl), NBC, 1970
Marriage: Year One, NBC, 1971
Harpy, CBS, 1971
The Impatient Heart, NBC, 1971
The Priest Killer, NBC, 1971
See the Man Run (also known as The Second Face), 1971
Isn't It Shocking&quest;, ABC, 1973
Killer Bees, ABC, 1974
Tell Me Where It Hurts, CBS, 1974
Lucas Tanner, NBC, 1974
Sidekicks, CBS, 1974
The Tribe, ABC, 1974
The Godchild, ABC, 1974
The Healers, NBC, 1974
The Virginia Hill Story, 1974
Winner Take All (also known as Time Lock), NBC, 1975
Oregon Trail, NBC, 1976
McNaughton's Daughter (also known as Try to Catch a Saint), NBC, 1976
Amelia Earhart, NBC, 1976
Raid on Entebbe, NBC, 1977
Something for Joey, CBS, 1977
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, CBS, 1977
The Storyteller, NBC, 1977
The Defection of Simas Kudirka, CBS, 1978
Daddy, I Don't Like It like This, CBS, 1978
Theme music, Flying High, 1978
Do You Remember Love&quest;, CBS, 1985
The Blue Yonder (also known as Time Flyer), ABC, 1985
Promise, CBS, 1986
Convicted (also known as Convicted: A Mother's Story),NBC, 1987
Mayflower Madam, CBS, 1987
Jesse, NBC, 1988
God Bless the Child, ABC, 1988
A Promise to Keep, NBC, 1990
Always Remember I Love You, CBS, 1990
Sarah, Plain and Tall, CBS, 1991
The Boys (also known as The Guys), ABC, 1991
Paris Trout, HBO, 1991
Broadway Bound (also known as Neil Simon's Broadway Bound), ABC, 1992
Last Wish, ABC, 1992
Bed of Lies, ABC, 1992
Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story (also known as Fatal Love), ABC, 1992
The Habitation of Dragons, TNT, 1992
Nightmare in the Daylight, CBS, 1992
Four Eyes and Six-Guns, TNT, 1992
Skylark (also known as Sarah, Plain and Tall: Skylark), CBS, 1993
Heartbeat (also known as Danielle Steel's Heartbeat), NBC, 1993
Jane's House, CBS, 1994
Once in a Lifetime (also known as Danielle Steel's Once ina Lifetime), NBC, 1994
Lily in Winter, USA Network, 1994
Reunion, CBS, 1994
The Companion, USA Network, 1994
My Antonia, USA Network, 1995
A Father for Charlie (also known as High Lonesome), CBS, 1995
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, NBC, 1995
My Brother's Keeper, CBS, 1995
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (also known as AlmostGolden), Lifetime, 1995
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior, TNT, 1995
Murderous Intent, CBS, 1995
The Man Who Wouldn't Die, ABC, 1995
The Heidi Chronicles, TNT, 1995
Jake's Women (also known as Neil Simon's Jake's Women), CBS, 1996
Last Stand at Saber River, TNT, 1997
Alone (also known as Horton Foote's Alone), Showtime, 1997
Ms. Scrooge, USA Network, 1997
To Dance with Olivia, CBS, 1997
I Married a Monster, UPN, 1998
Rear Window, ABC, 1998
Double Platinum, ABC, 1999
Spenser: Small Vices (also known as Robert B. Parker's Small Vices and Small Vices), Arts and Entertainment, 1999
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, CBS, 1999
Thin Air (also known as Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery), Artsand Entertainment, 2000
Also composed music for Chris, PBS; Three Faces of Love; If I Had a Million; and The Clinic.
Specials
Is There a Doctor in the House&quest;, 1971
Rex Harrison Presents Short Stories of Love, 1974
Doctor Dan, 1974
This Better Be It, 1976
(And theme music) Alice, CBS, 1976
Home Room, 1981
(And theme music) Man about Town, ABC, 1986
Song composer, The Rita Rudner Comedy Specials, Arts and Entertainment, 1991
Contributor of special musical material, Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood, ABC, 1993
Texan, Showtime, 1994
Talking With, PBS, 1995
Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs, TNT,1999
Television Scores
Episodic
Getting Together, ABC, 1971
Love Story, NBC, 1973
"Hell Toupee," Amazing Stories, NBC, 1986
"Moving Day," Amazing Stories, NBC, 1987
Also composed music for episodes of Alias Smith and Jones, ABC; CBS Playhouse, CBS; It Takes a Thief, ABC; and The Virginian, NBC.
Television Specials
Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood, ABC, 1993
Stage Music
The Sap of Life, Sheridan Square Theatre, New York City, 1961
Graham Crackers, Upstairs at the Downstairs, New York City, 1962
The Unknown Soldier and His Wife, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1967
How Do You Do, I Love You, Yale Dramatic Association, 1968
Love Match, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1970
Starting Here, Starting Now, Barbarann Theatre, New York City, 1977
Baby, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1983
Urban Blight, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1988
Closer Than Ever, 1989
Big, U.S. cities and Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1996
Visiting Mr. Green, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1998
Personals, Apollo Theatre, New York City, 2000
Also wrote the scores for Cyrano, The Grand Tour, Yale Dramatic Association; As You Like It, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City; The Loman Family Picnic; and Shmulnik's Waltz.
Other Music
Sonata for Cocktail Piano, 1965
Composing credits include the songs "Autumn" (music and lyrics with Richard Maltby, Jr.), 1959; "Starting Here, Starting Now," 1965; "What about Today&quest;," 1969; "Manhattan Skyline," 1977; "No More Songs for Me"; "Washington Square" (music and lyrics with Bob Goldstein); "And So You Go"; "BeautifulChanges"; "First Thing in the Morning"; "Time Will Tell"; "Another Way"; "I'd Rather Be Rich"; "Take a Look Around"; "It's So Easy"; "Please Stay"; "Only When I Laugh"; "The Morning After"; and "I Need You Strong for Me." Songs have been recorded by Barbra Streisand, Andy Williams, Hamilton Camp, Melissa Manchester, Judy Collins, Debby Boone, Jennifer Warnes, Glenn Campbell,Lainie Kazan, Marily May, The Village Stompers, Billy Preston and Syreeta, Johnny Mathis, Kathe Green, Dennis Weaver, Robert Goulet, Pearl Baily, Tim Morgan, Cliff Richard, Maureen McGovern, Brenda Lee, and Shirley Bassey.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

The television special Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood, November 30, 1997, broadcast by ABC in 1993, was based on a conceptby Shire.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Newsweek, p. 84N.

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