Emil Cadkin

Emil Cadkin
Born 1920 (age 95–96), although some sources state he lived from 1916-1996.
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Origin United States
Russia
Genres Film scores
Occupation(s) Composer, Conductor, Music Director
Years active 1942–present

Emil M. Cadkin (Эмиль Cadkin) is an American TV and film composer of Russian descent who worked mainly as a production music composer. He worked with Bill Loose (1910–1991) and Harry Bluestone (1907–1992). Some of his music was also featured on APM Music. Cadkin composed music for 1940s, 1950s and 1960s films and cartoons including Gumby[1] and Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie.

Early life

He was born in 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three children to Isadore and Sarah Cadkin, who had emigrated from Russia in 1905.[2] His father was a cabinet maker in Los Angeles by 1936.[3] Cadkin spent two years in college and was in Los Angeles writing and teaching music by the time he enlisted in the Air Force in 1942.[4] His song I Have Everything I Want But You was copyrighted in 1938.

Career

After being discharged, he scored films like “The Big Fix” for bottom-of-the-barrel studio PRC. Cadkin was an associate editor of ASCAP’s ‘The Score’ when it was created in 1948, and got a job in 1958 as musical director at Ritco Productions, a low-budget company that churned out westerns starring Forrest Tucker. Cadkin switched from ASCAP to BMI the following year.[5] He graduated to become musical director and arranger for Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems. He also got into the business of supplying taped music programming for radio stations, as Billboard of May 23, 1970 reveals he had been appointed music director of popular products (as opposed to classical) for American Tape Duplicators.[6] But he spent a decade co-writing music along with Bill Loose, which ended up in various libraries, including Capitol Hi-Q. Billboard of December 23, 1967 reveals distribution rights to that music, previously in the PMS, OK and PM libraries, which had belonged to Capitol, had been purchased by Emil Ascher, Inc.[7]

Lawsuit

He worked with Bill Loose whose estate he later sued with several other of Bill's former friends. The 8 year case, due to the lack of legal merit and physical evidence, was settled for 8 thousand dollars even though it started out as a 74 million dollar lawsuit. In that lawsuit, Cadkin untruthfully claimed he had written 74% of music that he said Bill Loose had defrauded him out of. He said Loose and he had a written contract that they would each have claim to half of the music they wrote. When asked to produce said contract he changed the story and said it was an oral contract. Cadkin's team wanted this case to go to trial, even though the attourney, Marty O'Toole had been indicted and convicted of amphetamine abuse. By the end of the lawsuit, the trustee of the estate, Bill Loose's son, who had to defend this lawsuit, was on life support due to the stress of this lawsuit and the effect that it had on his heart. In the end, Bill Loose's son's family, which consists of a wife, a sister, her husband, a mother, and a daughter, almost lost him.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Emil Cadkin on IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128248/
  2. ↑ U.S. Census report, 1930
  3. ↑ Los Angeles City Directory, 1936
  4. ↑ "U.S. National Archives Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946". Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  5. ↑ Billboard, Oct. 10, 1960, BMI Snags More ASCAP Writers, pg. 3
  6. ↑ "ATD in pop expansion-enters classical mart". Billboard. 23 May 1970. p. 13. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  7. ↑ Billboard, Dec. 23, 1967, E. Asher Gets Loose Cadkin Distrib Rights, pgs. 3 and 19
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