Seinfeld composer Jonathan Wolff says that the sitcom’s famed theme song was almost different after he agreed to change it following network executives’ negative notes.
Over two decades after Seinfeld went off the air — and on the heels of the official soundtrack album’s release earlier this month — Wolff spoke to Yahoo Entertainment and SiriusXM’s Volume about his experience getting the opening credits music into the show. The composer, who has also written music for Will & Grace and Married… With Children, shared that around the end of the first season, NBC executives expressed hesitations around the slap bass and finger snap-fueled tune.
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Over two decades after Seinfeld went off the air — and on the heels of the official soundtrack album’s release earlier this month — Wolff spoke to Yahoo Entertainment and SiriusXM’s Volume about his experience getting the opening credits music into the show. The composer, who has also written music for Will & Grace and Married… With Children, shared that around the end of the first season, NBC executives expressed hesitations around the slap bass and finger snap-fueled tune.
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Seinfeld composer Jonathan Wolff says that the sitcom’s famed theme song was almost different after he agreed to change it following network executives’ negative notes.
Over two decades after Seinfeld went off the air — and on the heels of the official soundtrack album’s release earlier this month — Wolff spoke to Yahoo Entertainment and SiriusXM’s Volume about his experience getting the opening credits music into the show. The composer, who has also written music for Will & Grace and Married… With Children, shared that around the end of the first season, NBC executives expressed hesitations around the slap bass and finger snap-fueled tune.
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Over two decades after Seinfeld went off the air — and on the heels of the official soundtrack album’s release earlier this month — Wolff spoke to Yahoo Entertainment and SiriusXM’s Volume about his experience getting the opening credits music into the show. The composer, who has also written music for Will & Grace and Married… With Children, shared that around the end of the first season, NBC executives expressed hesitations around the slap bass and finger snap-fueled tune.
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The soundtrack to one of comedy’s classic shows is out Friday. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, yadda, yadda, yadda.
The Seinfeld Soundtrack spotlights music from the show’s nine seasons and 180 episodes. The score was carefully curated by the show’s composer, Jonathan Wolff, who selected songs specifically with fans in mind. Wolff’s resume includes composing music for Will & Grace, Married with Children, Reba, Who’s the Boss, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
For the Seinfeld collection, such popular scenes as “Cable Guy vs. Kramer,” “Jerry Vs. Newman Chase” and “Rochelle, Rochelle the Musical” are revived, as are three different versions of the show’s theme song.
Wolff answered a few Deadline questions about the music and how it played into the making of the hit comedy.
Deadline: What instrument was the classic...
The Seinfeld Soundtrack spotlights music from the show’s nine seasons and 180 episodes. The score was carefully curated by the show’s composer, Jonathan Wolff, who selected songs specifically with fans in mind. Wolff’s resume includes composing music for Will & Grace, Married with Children, Reba, Who’s the Boss, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
For the Seinfeld collection, such popular scenes as “Cable Guy vs. Kramer,” “Jerry Vs. Newman Chase” and “Rochelle, Rochelle the Musical” are revived, as are three different versions of the show’s theme song.
Wolff answered a few Deadline questions about the music and how it played into the making of the hit comedy.
Deadline: What instrument was the classic...
- 7/1/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 23 years after “Seinfeld” left the airwaves, a soundtrack album featuring its immortal theme (and 40 more minutes of classic “Seinfeld” music) is about to be released.
WaterTower Music will release the 33-track album on Friday, July 2, on all digital platforms. It will be the first time that any of the music for Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer has been available outside of its original television context.
“It was 30 years in the making,” says “Seinfeld” composer Jonathan Wolff, with a laugh, about the new release. He confesses he doesn’t know why there wasn’t a “Seinfeld” soundtrack while the series was on NBC between 1989 and 1998.
“It struggled for the first few seasons,” he points out. “We were an accidental hit. We were busy getting episodes out, and nobody was thinking about the music. And that’s Ok.” The series was among TV’s most popular shows for its last five seasons.
WaterTower Music will release the 33-track album on Friday, July 2, on all digital platforms. It will be the first time that any of the music for Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer has been available outside of its original television context.
“It was 30 years in the making,” says “Seinfeld” composer Jonathan Wolff, with a laugh, about the new release. He confesses he doesn’t know why there wasn’t a “Seinfeld” soundtrack while the series was on NBC between 1989 and 1998.
“It struggled for the first few seasons,” he points out. “We were an accidental hit. We were busy getting episodes out, and nobody was thinking about the music. And that’s Ok.” The series was among TV’s most popular shows for its last five seasons.
- 7/1/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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