Bob Cobert, the Grammy- and Emmy-nominated composer of television’s “Dark Shadows” and “The Winds of War,” died of pneumonia Feb. 19, in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 95.…
Cobert’s themes for the 1960s Gothic horror soap “” – “great spook music,” he once called it – were his most popular compositions, and “Quentin’s Theme” became a top 10 hit in 1969 as recorded by the Charles Randolph Grean Sound, earning a Grammy nomination as Best Instrumental Theme.
Curtis’s penchant for producing successful horror projects led to other memorable Cobert scores including his detective jazz for Darren McGavin as reporter Carl Kolchak in the hugely popular “The Night Stalker” and its sequel “The Night Strangler” ; a Romanian music-box treatment for Jack Palance in “Dracula” ; and a terrifying theme for the notorious Zuni doll menacing Karen Black in “Trilogy of Terror” .
Robert Cobert was born October 26, 1924 in Brooklyn. He studied composition and conducting at New York’s Juilliard School during the war years and later studied composition at Columbia University with well-known classical composer Henry Cowell. During the ’40s, he also played clarinet and saxophone at such famous venues as the Stork Club and the Copacabana.
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