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Article: Music in tandem: theme scheme hits two winning notes.(V PLUS: 'MONK' 100TH EPISODE)(Jeff Beal and Randy Newman's theme song for Monk)(Brief article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- September 5, 2008
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It was like giving a manager the boot--or at least a gentle shove--during a pennant-winning season.
Jeff Beal's main title theme for "Monk" won an Emmy following the show's 2002 debut. Even so, for the second season, a Randy Newman tune replaced Beal's.
And Newman won the Emmy the following year.
"I loved Jeff Beal's original theme song," says "Monk" co-creator and executive producer Andy Breckman. "It fit the tone of our show wonderfully. But then we had this dilemma. Randy Newman was a fan of the show and offered to write a theme song. And I grew up admiring Randy Newman. He was one of my heroes; I actually started my career as a ...