Edd Kalehoff
Categories: Composers stubs | ABC Sports
Edward Woodley "Edd" Kalehoff is a music composer who specializes in compositions for television.
Composer of about 1000 pieces, mainly for television, his credits include the majority of cues used on The Price is Right, a music package for ABC Sports that updated and expanded the Monday Night Football theme, for WNBC-TV's famous 1993 promotional campaign "We're 4 New York", as well as many television news music and station image packages used on stations such as WEWS-TV Cleveland, WNYW-TV and WNBC-TV in New York City. The NBC Stations package composed in 1995 for WNBC, was used by the station until 2003.
Due to its long run as the music package for NewsChannel 4 it is widely known in the Tri-State Region.
He has long been associated with Score Productions and Mark Goodson Productions and is a favorite composer.
Currently Kalehoff is the chosen composer for ABC News and is a member of BMI who calls him a "legend" along the lines of Mike Post.
Kalehoff is a noted keyboard player and is a featured performer in the film Moog, about Moog synthesizers, and played for several The Roches albums.
As a record producer he produced several albums including ones for The Roches and Andrea McArdle.
He is married to Broadway actress and singer Andrea McArdle and has a daughter Alexis Kalehoff who has appeared in many Broadway productions. He has two sons, Max and Rex, from his first marriage.
Selected filmography
- News 4 New York
- NewsChannel 4
- WCBS CBS 2 News (WCBS Grand)
- Monday Night Football
- Wide World of Sports
- Nightly Business Report
- Numerous cues for The Price is Right
- Tattletales (1982)
- Double Dare/Card Sharks (Same piece used on two shows)
- Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (a favorite theme among game show fans)
- Trivia Trap
- Double Dare (1986)
- Finders Keepers
- and other projects for Mark Goodson Productions