Born in Vöcklabruck, Austria on June 6, 1937, Gerhard Narholz is an extremely prolific composer. Classically trained, but devoted to easy listening music and also film scoring, etc. He started the Sonoton Recorded Music Library in 1965. His son Gregor is also a prolific film score writer, and his son Robert has played in several bands and composed pieces.
Narholz, like many before him, went under a number of pseudonyms. Here are several:
Norman Candler (recording & composing)
Otto Sieben (recording & composing)
Tony Tape (composing)
Jurgen Jänner [or Juergen Jaenner] (composing)
Sammy Burdson (composing)
Walt Rockman (composing)
Mac Prindy (composing)
John Epping (composing)
Jim Harbourg (composing)
Renato Pegado (composing)
Rolf Steinfelder (composing)
Carlos Periguez (composing)
Selected works:
"Caribbean Fun" (on "Martini Lounge", Sonoton 261)
"Speaking Guitar" (on "Martini Lounge", Sonoton 261)
"Mambo Fantastico" (on "Martini Lounge", Sonoton 261)
"Cha Cha Nova" (on "Lounge Exotica", Sonoton 262)
"Towerstreet 17" - all 56 versions! - (on "Archival 6 - Spies and Detectives", Sonoton 487)
"Life at the Top" as "Sammy Burdson" with John C. Fiddy (on Sonoton 165, "Life st the Top")
"Count the Lights of San Francisco" (on "60s TV Lounge", Sonoton 263)
And also see the Collected Works of Gerhard Narholz!
Listen here:
"Caribbean Fun"
"Count the Lights of San Francisco"
"Speaking Guitar"