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Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and ten Grammy Awards. He has had a prolific recording career as an artist, arranger, producer and executive producer. He is the co-founder of GRP Records.
Born in Littleton, Colorado, he studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded his degree in 1956. He produced his first single, "Subways Are for Sleeping", in 1962 and his first film score for Divorce American Style (1967). Other scores followed, including Winning (1969), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), and Three Days of the Condor (1975).
In the late 1970s, he started GRP Records with his business partner, Larry Rosen, and began to create some of the first commercial digital recordings. He was the composer for The Graduate, On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982) and The Goonies (1985). In 1988, he won the Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War, He also composed the musical scores for the 1984 TriStar Pictures and the 1993 Columbia Pictures Television logos.
From 2000-11, Grusin concentrated on composing classical and jazz compositions, touring and recording with collaborators, including guitarist Lee Ritenour. Their album Harlequin won a Grammy Award in 1985. Their classical crossover albums, Two Worlds and Amparo, were nominated for Grammys.
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Albums
Falling in Love
Two Worlds
Collection
On Golden Pond
Mountain Dance
Discovered Again!
Popular Songs
- Almost Too Late
- Wait for Me
- The Crossing
- Together at Last
- Back to Rizzoli's
- First Kiss
- No Molly
- Waiting
- The Apartment / I'm Sorry
- Getting Dressed
- Decision
- Helpless
- The Funeral
- First Encounter
- M61
- M71
- Trying to Recall
- Seat Taken?
- Looks / Lunch?
- M71A / Wait for Me
- Catch the Train
- Working Girl March
- Tootsie
- Montage Pastorale
- Out of the Rain
- Sandy's Song
- Media Zap
- Metamorphosis Blues
- Don't Let It Get You Down
- Last Walk / Why?