Ray Colcord Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a BMI TV Music Award for "227" in 1987 and an ASCAP Award for Most Performed Theme in 1999
• Served as governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, as President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and as a board member of the Film Music Society
• Attended Rice University in the Pre-Law program for, as he says, "reasons still not clear․"
• Toured with Texas R&B singer Roy Head before being hired as a talent scout at Columbia Records in 1970, where he was the first person to hear Aerosmith audition and told Clive Davis to sign them
• His first professional music experience was as a member of the Columbus Boychoir, which performed at the New York Philharmonic and Radio City Music Hall
• Quote: "You never actually finish mixing [music], you just stop․"
• Founder and President of the Composers and Lyricists Legal Aid Society
• Was a member of the American Federation of Musicians, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Association of Music Arrangers and Composers, and assorted other organizations
• Best known as a composer for film and television, with his music appearing in more than 100 titles including "Boy Meets World," "Dinosaurs," and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life․"
• He recorded some songs with Don McLean on his album "American Pie" and was co-producer of Aerosmith's album "Get Your Wings․"