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  • American disco musicians
  • American classical musicians
  • American television composers
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  • Musicians from New York
  • Primetime Emmy Award winners
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  • Walter Murphy is a classically-trained pianist and former advertising jingle writer. His disco single %22A Fifth Of Beethoven%22 topped the US Hot Hundred in 1976 and was subsequently featured on the best-selling soundtrack to [url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Saturday-Night-Fever/master/23443]Saturday Night Fever[/url].In an effort to stimulate sales, his record company credited some releases of the single to Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band or just [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Walter+Murphy+%26+The+Big+Apple+Band?anv=Walter+Murphy+Band%2C+The]The Walter Murphy Band[/url].
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  • Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American composer, arranger, pianist, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental %22A Fifth of Beethoven%22, a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Further classical–disco fusions followed, such as %22Flight '76%22, %22Rhapsody in Blue%22, %22Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor%22, %22Bolero%22, and %22Mostly Mozart%22, but were not as successful.In a career spanning over four decades, Murphy has written music for numerous films and TV shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Savage Bees, Stingray, Wiseguy, The Commish, Profit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Looney Tunes, and How Murray Saved Christmas. He has had a long-running partnership with Seth MacFarlane, composing music for his films and TV shows such as Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad!, and Ted.
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