for best musical theme and scoring, including CLIO Awards and four gold medal winners at the International Film and Television Festivals. As arranger, composer, or both, Al’s many commercials include State Farm Insurance ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."), Breck Shampoo, McDonald's (i.e. "You Deserve a Break Today"), Gillette, Kinney Shoes, Woolco, Kodak, and Scope. Al also composed, arranged, and conducted news and station image music packages that have been broadcast by scores of TV stations across the country. They include "Move Closer to Your World", "Part of Your Life", "Home Country", "Bringing it Home to You", and "On Top of It All". Al’s film credits include the score of the Electronovision version of Harlow, which produced the song "I Believed it All", (Written with Lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman). An Academy Award nomination for his superb adaptation and scoring of Warner Brothers’ Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, which he also conducted. And, a Grammy award for the "Best Spoken Word Recording" for his production of James Whitmore’s Give 'em Hell, Harry! on United Artists Records. Al also acted as programmer and associate producer for T.A.M.I. (Teenage Musical International) which featured performances by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, James Brown, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Lesley Gore, Chuck Berry, and many other popular music stars. The show was a front runner of the type of concert programming that is now standard TV fare. Ham’s additional musical credits include his arrangement and production of "I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing" by his group, the Hillside Singers (which included his wife Mary and daughter Lorri) for Metromedia Records, and the recordings he produced with his group The Midas Touch on MCA records. He also received a Grammy nomination for "Best Spoken Word Recording" for "Senator Sam at Home". In 1978, after years of research, Ham created the Music of Your Life radio format, which played on over 200 radio stations in the United States. His television news music packages were syndicated through his company, Mayoham Music. Ham passed away in October 2001 at the age of 76 News music packages written and composed by Al Ham Bringing It Home to You Home Country Move Closer to Your World On Top of It All Part of Your Life References External links 1925 births 2001 deaths American male songwriters American television composers Record producers from Massachusetts