Greg O'Connor
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| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Education | University of Notre Dame, University of Southern California |
| Occupation | Composer, songwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1990 - present |
| Awards | 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, for "A Wonderfully Normal Day" - MAD TV |
| Website | www.gregoconnor.com |
Greg O'Connor is a composer and songwriter who has scored over 570 episodes of television and has written numerous featured songs for television series, films and commercials. He is a Primetime Emmy winner and a four-time Emmy nominee. He has also scored radio and web commercials.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Early life
Greg O'Connor was born in Philadelphia. Greg is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame’s Music School as well as the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program at USC.[7][8]
Career
Early in his career, O'Connor wrote the score for the Emmy Award-winning Ben Stiller Show and The Sunday Comics on FOX. He also composed the underscore for all three seasons of the hidden camera series The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the ABC Aaron Spelling cop drama 10-8, starring Ernie Hudson and Danny Nucci.[9][10]
He has written two Billboard Top 20 songs with collaborator James Pankow for the band Chicago, as well as the song "Here With Me" for the Chicago album Stone of Sisyphus.[11][12] He produced five songs for the Barry Manilow album The Greatest Songs of the Eighties, as well as Manilow's hit Christmas single "Christmas is Just Around the Corner." [13][14][15][16][17]
Greg was the composer, songwriter and musical director for all 14 seasons of the hit sketch comedy show Mad TV,[18] David Allen Grier’s comedy series Chocolate News, Jeff Foxworthy’s variety show Blue Collar TV and Bob Einstein’s series Super Dave Spike-Tacular. Additionally, he was the musical director and composer for the ABC reality competition series The Next Best Thing.[19]
O'Connor most recently wrote and produced two songs for the film The Greening of Whitney Brown, starring Kris Kristofferson, Aiden Quinn and Brooke Shields, one of which was performed by Shields. He wrote and produced three featured songs for Lori Petty’s directorial feature film debut, The Poker House, as well as two featured songs in the Lego movie Clutch Powers. O'Connor produced and wrote songs for the animated Lionsgate movie Foodfight and produced two songs for Curb Records artist Kimberley Locke on the Camille soundtrack for Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy.[20][21]
Awards
| Year | Project | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | "Sad Fitty Cent" | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Nominated[22] |
| 2007 | "Merry Ex-Mas" | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Nominated |
| 2006 | "A Wonderfully Normal Day" | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Won |
| 2001 | "Mole Folks Song" | Outstanding Music and Lyrics | Nominated |
References
- ↑ "Artist Biography". cdbaby.
- ↑ "SCL gathers notable songwriters for musicale". filmmusicsociety.
- ↑ "2006 Emmy nominations list – part 2". variety.
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- ↑ "Composer Bio". emmys.
- ↑ "Greg O'Connor: 'MAD TV' Fox 'JKX: the Jamie Kennedy Experiment' the WB.(who scores primetime)". Business Highbeam.
- ↑ "BMI Composers Score at 2006 Creative Emmys". bmi.com.
- ↑ Burlingame, Jon. "Callery Wins Second Emmy". film music society.
- ↑ "Greg O'Connor – Composer/Songwriter". gregoconnor.
- ↑ "XXXII: Stone Of Sisyphus". allpines.
- ↑ "Chicago (2) – The Only One". discogs.
- ↑ "AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". allmusic.
- ↑ "Barry Manilow – The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties". discogs.
- ↑ "Zanelli, Shearmur Among First-time Honorees". filmmusicsociety.
- ↑ "Heartwarming Sitcom Theme". hamfatter.
- ↑ "Greg O'Connor". artistdirect.
- ↑ "Filmography". soundtrack.
- ↑ "Mad TV Cast Reunion". patkilbane.
- ↑ "BMI Salutes Emmy Nominees". bmi.
- ↑ "2006 Creative Arts Awards". zimbio.
- ↑ "Greg O'Connor". ebscohost.
- ↑ "Music Emmy Nominations Announced". filmmusicmag.