Composer Pete Rugolo dies at 95

Emmy-winning TV-film composer and jazz arranger Pete Rugolo, who done the MGM musical "Hug Me Kate," died in Sherman Trees, Calif., on Sunday. He was 95. The Sicilian-born Rugolo first made his title just like a composer and arranger for your Stan Kenton Orchestra inside the 19 forties, to whom he written greater than 100 plans. He spent couple of years as musical director at Capitol Records inside the late '40s, creating Harry Belafonte's first singles. Rugolo labored with with Peggy Lee, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman as well as the Four Freshmen throughout his multi-decade career, and provided Miles Davis' seminal LP "Birth in the Awesome" having its title. He labored for MGM for your first half from the 19 fifties just like a staff composer, organizing and creating for studio musicals including "Hug Me Kate," although recording by themself for Mercury Records, where he later offered becoming an A&R director. Rugolo's composition resume includes concentrate on TV series "The Thin Guy," "The Fugitive," "Run for that Existence" and "Richard Gem." He received six Emmy nominations and won two. Rugolo is managed to get by his wife, three children and three grandchildren. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com