Harold Wheeler (musician)
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William Harold Wheeler Jr. (born July 14, 1943), better known as Harold Wheeler, is an American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Hairspray.
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Partial discography
- Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun (1971) – Arranger, conductor & producer
- Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973) – Piano on Blinded By the Light and Spirit In The Night
- Grind (1985) – Additional orchestrations
- The Harold Wheeler Consort – Black Cream (album) (1975) RCA BGL1-0849 – Producer, arranger, piano/keyboards/organ/Moog, composer credit for tracks Black Cream and Color me Soul
- Meco – Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (1977) – arranger & producer
- The Wiz (1978) – soundtrack
- Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
- Mississippi Rising (2005) – Arranger and conductor
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As sideman
With Bernard Purdie
- Purdie Good! (Prestige, 1971)
- Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) (Mega, 1971)
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