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James Ira Newborn (born December 26, 1949) is an American musician, actor, orchestrator and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks.

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Ira Newborn
Birth name	James Ira Newborn
Born	(1949-12-26) December 26, 1949 (age 72) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Composer, orchestrator, conductor, actor
Musical career
Genres	Film score
Years active	1975-present

Life and career

Newborn was born in New York City. References to him as James Ira are the result of a joke and incorrect. He has scored or written songs for films such as Sixteen Candles,[1] Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off,[2][3]Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Mallrats, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective[4] and Into the Night, for which he wrote music for B.B. King. He frequently worked with director John Hughes. He also stepped in as musical director and producer for The Blues Brothers. Newborn's many film credits also include a small acting role in Xanadu, in which he appears as a 1940s bandleader.

Newborn may be best known for composing the soundtrack for the Naked Gun series of police satires starring Leslie Nielsen. Newborn's brassy big band/blues theme song for the franchise first appeared on the TV series that inspired the films, 1982's Police Squad!.

Newborn has also worked in concerts and commercials, on Broadway and in the recording industry as a performer, arranger, composer and conductor.

He is also an adjunct faculty member at New York University, from which he received his bachelor's degree in 1972.[5] Influenced by an eclectic variety of composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, James Brown and the Beatles, as a guitarist Newborn led and played in several musical groups before signing on as the musical director for the vocal group the Manhattan Transfer.

Newborn has contributed to albums by many artists such as Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Billy Joel and the Pointer Sisters.

As a songwriter

Newborn wrote two songs performed by B.B. King for the Into the Night soundtrack: "My Lucille" and "Into the Night." Two songs co-written by Newborn appeared on the Into the Night soundtrack album, but not in the film: "Don't Make Me Sorry," co-written by Joe Esposito and performed by Patti LaBelle, and "Keep It Light," co-written by Reginald "Sonny" Burke and performed by Thelma Houston.

Newborn co-wrote "Clap Your Hands" for the Manhattan Transfer and "Get It On and Have a Party" for Patti Brooks on the Dr. Detroit soundtrack. Both "Geek Boogie" from Sixteen Candles and "Geek Romance" from Weird Science were credited to Ira and the Geeks.

He co-wrote "I Guess I'm Just Screwed" for The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear with David Zucker and Robert LoCash. With Peter Segal, he co-wrote "The Food Song" for the Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult soundtrack.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio(s)	Notes
1981	All Night Long	Jean-Claude Tramont	Universal Pictures	with Richard Hazard and José Padilla
1984	Sixteen Candles	John Hughes	Universal Pictures	with Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall
1985	Into the Night	John Landis	Universal Pictures	—
	Weird Science	John Hughes	Universal Pictures	—
1986	Wise Guys	Brian De Palma	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	—
	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	John Hughes	Paramount Pictures	—
1987	Dragnet	Tom Mankiewicz	Universal Pictures	—
	Amazon Women on the Moon	Joe Dante Carl Gottlieb Peter Horton John Landis Robert K. Weiss	Universal Pictures	—
	Planes, Trains and Automobiles	John Hughes	Paramount Pictures	with Steve Martin and John Candy
1988	Caddyshack II	Allan Arkush	Warner Bros.	with Jackie Mason and Robert Stack
	The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!	David Zucker	Paramount Pictures	—
1989	Collision Course	Lewis Teague	De Laurentiis Entertainment Group	with Jay Leno and Pat Morita
	Uncle Buck	John Hughes	Universal Pictures	with John Candy and Macaulay Culkin
1990	Short Time	Gregg Champion	20th Century Fox Gladden Entertainment	with Dabney Coleman and Matt Frewer
	My Blue Heaven	Herbert Ross	Warner Bros.	—
1991	The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear	David Zucker	Paramount Pictures	—
1992	Brain Donors	Dennis Dugan	Paramount Pictures	—
	Innocent Blood	John Landis	Warner Bros.	—
1993	The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them	Matthew Meshekoff	Miramax	—
1994	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	Tom Shadyac	Warner Bros. Morgan Creek Productions	—
	Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult	Peter Segal	Paramount Pictures	—
1995	The Jerky Boys: The Movie	James Melkonian	Touchstone Pictures	—
	Mallrats	Kevin Smith	Gramercy Pictures	—
1996	High School High	Hart Bochner	TriStar Pictures	—
1997	Bad Manners	Jonathan Kaufer	Phaedra Cinema	—
1998	BASEketball	David Zucker	Universal Pictures	Credited as James Ira Newborn

Television

• SCTV (1981) (TV)
• Police Squad! (1982) (TV)
• Tales from the Crypt (1992) (TV)
• The Late Shift (1995) (TV)

References

External links

• Ira Newborn at IMDb
• Ira Newborn at soundtrack.net
• Ira Newborn discography at Discogs

На других языках

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[de] Ira Newborn

James Ira Newborn (* 26. Dezember 1949 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmkomponist.

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- [en] Ira Newborn

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[ru] Ньюборн, Айра

Айра Ньюборн (англ. Ira Newborn, 26 декабря 1949, Нью-Йорк, США) — американский композитор и актёр, больше известный по написанию саундтреков к фильмам. Самые известные его работы — это музыка к таким фильмам как «16 свечей», «Ох уж эта наука!», «Феррис Бьюллер берёт выходной», «Самолётом, поездом и автомобилем», «Братья Блюз», «Лоботрясы», «В ночи» и «Эйс Вентура: Розыск домашних животных». Помимо написания музыки Айра Ньборн также снимался в нескольких фильмах в качестве актёра, к таковым можно отнести, например, фильм «Ксанаду», где он сыграл роль лидера музыкальной группы. Если учесть, что фильмы его послужного списка очень часто становились блокбастерами, можно дать этому человеку статус культового.

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