Earle Harry Hagen was an American composer who created music for movies and television.
13 Facts About Earle Hagen
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Earle Hagen is remembered for co-writing and whistling "The Fishin' Hole", the melody of the main theme to The Andy Griffith Show; writing the instrumental song "Harlem Nocturne" used as the theme for television's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer; and co-writing the theme song to Tim Conway's Western comedy Rango.
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Earle Hagen began teaching trombone in the 1930s in order to make extra money.
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Earle Hagen began writing for television when he left Fox in 1952 with partner Herbert W Spencer.
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Earle Hagen met television show producer Sheldon Leonard when he scored the Danny Thomas series Make Room for Daddy.
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Since every episode of I Spy was set in a different location, Earle Hagen made liberal use of world music in his soundtracks which were mostly written and performed within the West coast jazz genre.
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Earle Hagen was the in-house composer for the 1970s television series Eight Is Enough.
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Earle Hagen wrote one of the first textbooks on scoring, Scoring for Films: A Complete Text.
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Earle Hagen was married for 59 years to Elouise "Lou" Sidwell, a former big-band singer, until her death in 2002.
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Earle Hagen married his second wife, Laura Roberts, in 2005.
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Earle Hagen is buried at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.
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Earle Hagen had a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedicated to him in 2003.
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Earle Hagen was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011.