Score Productions is an American musical production company specializing in background music and themes for television shows. Started in 1963 in a brownstone townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan by music producer Bob Israel, Score has created some of the most recognizable tunes in America — most identifiable by just a few notes.
Among the composers who worked for Score Productions are Charles Fox, Walt Levinsky, Arthur B. Rubinstein, Dick Lieb, Michel Camilo, Chuck Loeb, Billy Barber, Irving "Benny" Robbin, Charles Gross, Glen Daum, Birch Johnson, Joe Kurasz and Les Fradkin.
Legacy
One of the Score-produced compositions, "Come on Down", also known as the theme song from The Price Is Right, would eventually become a number one hit on Billboards Dance Club Songs Chart for Crystal Waters in 2001. The single also marked the first time that a television theme song (and one that came from a game show) reached number one on a Dance chart, and the first to feature lyrics.
Selected credits of Score Productions music composers
Billy Barber - All My Children, American Chronicles
Bob Israel – ABC World News Tonight Theme, All My Children, Another World, The Doctors, The Red Hand Gang. Michel Camilo – Goodwill Games, One Life to Live, Match Game (1998), Press Your Luck (1983), Loving, High Rollers (1987), The All New Let's Make A Deal (1984) Charles Fox – ABC's Wide World of Sports, To Tell the Truth (1969), The Match Game, What's My Line?, Rhyme and Reason Charles Gross – The Doctors Edd Kalehoff – The Price Is Right, Concentration, Tattletales (1974), Trivia Trap, Card Sharks (1986) Walt Levinsky – Family Feud, 20/20, Password Plus, The Price Is Right (1976 music package) Dick Lieb and Walt Levinsky – Swiss Family Robinson, WWII, A G.I. Diary, Search and Rescue, Dr. Simon Locke, Police Surgeon, Lovers and Friends Les Fradkin – One Life to Live, Capitol, Loving, various game shows Chuck Loeb – CNN Main Theme and various CNN cues/shows Arthur B. Rubinstein – The Doctors, Another World, The Red Hand Gang (theme), Sportsworld, WWII-A GI Diary, All-New Beat the Clock, Strange Paradise, The Starlost, Norman Corwin Presents, Harvey, The Price, All the Way Home, Look Homeward Angel Paul Epstein - Body Language, Classic Concentration, Hit Man Gary Anderson - Child's Play, Super Password Joe Kurasz - Guiding Light
Credits of Score Productions
ABC
ABC World News Tonight
America This Morning
20/20
This Week with David Brinkley
Nightline
Monday Night Football
ABC Space Shuttle
The Royal Wedding
Wide World of Sports
ABC Superstars
ABC International Championship Boxing
Battle of the Network Stars
Primetime Monday
John Ritter Remembered
Major League Baseball Game of the Week
ABC's Wide World of Entertainment Theme
The Kentucky Derby
Preakness Stakes
The Championships, Wimbledon Tennis
Indianapolis 500
ABC Movies
One Life to Live
General Hospital
All My Children
Loving
ABC Basketball
ABC Bowling
Good Morning America 1998–1999
The John Stossel Specials
ABC Radio News
The Big Showdown (Don Lipp-Ron Greenberg Productions) The Money Maze (Daphne-Don Lipp Productions) Rhyme and Reason (W.T. Naud Productions) ABC World News This Morning
NBC
Search for Tomorrow (CBS/NBC-Procter & Gamble) Another World (NBC-Procter & Gamble) The Doctors (NBC-Colgate Palmolive) Texas (NBC-Procter & Gamble) The Dr. Dean Show
HBO
HBO Feature Presentation theme
CNN
Worldview
Newsday
Morning News
Today
Early Edition
Weekend A.M. News
CNNfn
CNN Theme (Turner) Larry King Live Managing With Lou Dobbs
RTL Group/Fremantle (including Goodson-Todman assets) Password (CBS/ABC) 1961–1967, 1971–1975 To Tell the Truth (CBS/SYN/NBC/ABC) 1967–1968, 1969–1978, 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2000–2002, 2016–present Match Game (NBC/CBS/ABC/SYN) 1967–1969, 1973–1982, 1990–1991, 1998–1999, 2016–2021 What's My Line? (SYN) 1968–1975 The Price Is Right (CBS/SYN) 1972–present I've Got a Secret (CBS/SYN) 1972–1973, 1976 Concentration (SYN) 1973–1978 Tattletales (CBS/SYN) 1974–1978, 1982–1984 Double Dare (CBS) 1976–1977 Family Feud (ABC/CBS/SYN) 1976–1985, 1988–1995, 1999–present Card Sharks (NBC/SYN/CBS/ABC) 1978–1981, 1986–1989 Beat the Clock (CBS) 1979–1980 Password Plus (NBC) 1979–1982 Child's Play (CBS) 1982–1983 Body Language (CBS) 1984–1986 Super Password (NBC) 1984–1989 Classic Concentration (NBC) 1987–1991