Bill Elliott

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bill Elliott
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Oct 2, 1951(1951-10-02)
Age	73
Birthplace	Wayland
Birth City	Wayland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bill Elliott Biography

Bill Elliott is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on October 2, 1951 in Wayland, Wayland, ****. A break came when some Boston friends, who were working on a movie, asked him if he could write something for it. The film was Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, and it needed a 1930s swing-type tune. This was a type of music that Elliott always liked anyway, but for years had kept separate from his pop career. In essence, he was now being asked to write new music that sounded like old music. He said, “Here was something I excelled at, and few others were doing it.” He traveled back to Boston and recorded the song “Pep, Vim, and Verve” for the movie sound track. Later, he obtained jobs arranging music for Disney Studios, including video sequels to Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. He wrote for TV’s Northern Exposure, Ellen, the Drew Carey Show and ABC’s The Shirley Temple Story.

Elliott moved back to Boston in the mid 1970s and toured with some popular acts of the day, including Livingston Taylor (brother of James Taylor), Jonathan Taylor and Tom Rush. Elliott’s first big band writing was for a show performed by actor/comedian Martin Mull. Elliott said, “The show covered many musical styles, including swing, country, and r&b. It was a real education learning how to arrange for these distinct genres on the fly.”

At age 42, Elliot formed “The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra”, a 19-member band based in Los Angeles. It included some of LA’s finest musicians with whom Elliott had become acquainted. The first performance was in 1993 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Taking advantage of a swing dance revival in the 1990s, the band attracted dancers of the Jitterbug and the Lindy Hop initially, but the orchestra gained stature and acceptance to the point of being featured on film soundtracks and albums of major artists. Examples include Midnight, a jazz album by Diane Schuur that was written and produced by Barry Manilow; and the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry, which featured Elliott’s orchestra on the soundtrack. The orchestra accompanied John Lithgow and Bebe Neuwirth on a children’s album called Farkle and Friends. Lithgow collaborated with Elliott on other projects, such as the children’s album, Singin’ in the Bathtub, on which Elliott was conductor, orchestrator and performer. He also performed with Lithgow in live concerts for children featuring this work. By the late 1990s Elliott’s career was almost exclusively focused on arranging, composing, and orchestrating for film, television, and children’s music, with some time allotted for his orchestra.

In his early 50s, Elliott’s work on the west coast declined after 9/11, and he was thinking of returning to the Boston area. He was in Boston working on a movie and visited his old friend Livingston Taylor, who was then on the faculty at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Elliott then learned of a job opening there in the Contemporary Writing and Production Department. He was hardly an academic, yet Elliott had the real-world experience that suited the job perfectly, and he accepted the offer and began teaching at Berklee in

2004. As for his teaching methods, Elliott stated, “I teach them what works with players, how players like to work together, and how instruments work together.” After returning to Boston, he soon began working with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Over the years, he has written more than 50 pieces for them including the orchestra’s holiday shows and their Gershwin celebration tour.

Elliott grew up in Wayland, Massachusetts, about 20 miles west of Boston. In 1969, he graduated from Wayland High School, where he played clarinet in the school band. Encouraged by director George Doren, Elliott wrote his first orchestrations for the band to play at football game halftimes. Even as a teenager, he liked swing music, and learned to play Fats Waller-style stride piano, but at the time, this was little more than a hobby because his real interest was the pop music of the day. His piano skills showed early, and he quickly became a favored keyboardist for artists around the Boston area. Other than high school music instruction, Elliott is basically self-taught. He did not attend college. He said, “I was impatient.” “I just wanted to be a musician”.

Bill Elliott Net Worth

Bill Elliott is one of the richest Composer from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Elliott 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bill Elliott (born William F. Elliott; October 2, 1951) is an American pianist, bandleader, Hollywood composer and Broadway orchestrator. In 2015 he won a Tony Award for best orchestration for the Broadway musical, An American in Paris. In 2012 he was nominated for both Tony and Grammy awards for Broadway’s Nice Work if You Can Get It. Elliott won Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations in 2017 for the Broadway Musical Bandstand.

In 1969, at age 18, he was invited to come to Los Angeles to perform on a recording by one of his Massachusetts friends, John Compton, who was making his first studio album called In California. In an interview 40 years later, Compton said of Elliott, “Bill only needs to hear a song once and he already knows it perfectly. He’s like a modern-day Mozart, and really looked the part back then.” Soon, Elliott decided to move to Los Angeles. He had some significant early success performing in a country-rock band called The Rowan Brothers, named for Elliott’s hometown friends Lorin and Chris Rowan who had moved to California. He performed on their 1972 album The Rowan Brothers, featuring Jerry Garcia and produced by bluegrass mandolinist David Grisman. The band was successful enough to perform as the opening act for The Grateful Dead at San Francisco’s Fillmore West in 1971. He also played with other California bands, such as Seatrain and Marblehead.

In 1977, at age 26, he returned to L.A., which was his home base while touring as a member of Bonnie Raitt’s band for about two years. Between tours he found work making demo recordings for music publishers; this work honed his skills—enough for Elliott to enter into a select group of elite recording keyboardists, that allowed him to focus on studio work and to stop touring. Elliott was booked on sessions to record with artists including Stevie Nicks, Donna Summer, America, Robbie Dupree, and Smokey Robinson.

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Who is Bill Elliott Dating?

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In 2015 Elliott, along with two collaborators, Don Sebesky and Christofer Austin, won a Tony Award for his orchestration in the Broadway musical An American in Paris. The production attracted attention because its direction and choreography were done by a ballet choreographer with no previous experience directing musicals.

Facts & Trivia

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Elliott, along with co-writer Greg Anthony Rassen, won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations in 2017 for the Broadway musical Bandstand.

What was Bill Elliott fastest speed?

In 1987 at Talladega Superspeedway, Bill Elliott put himself in the record books with a qualifying speed of 212.809mph. Frank Anderson and 2,350 others like this.

How much is Bill Elliott NASCAR driver worth?

Net Worth:$7 Million
Gender:| Male
Profession:| Race car driver
Nationality:| United States of America

What is Bill Elliott doing now?

SRX Racing announced today Bill Elliott will return to the series for two races during the 2022 season. Elliott will join the competition at Five Flags Speedway on June 18 and Stafford Motor Speedway on July 2.

Is Bill Elliott still married?

So, how does a non-race fan end up with NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Bill Elliott? “Million Dollar Bill” was previously married to his high school sweetheart, Martha, though that marriage ended in 1990.

What's the fastest NASCAR ever?

The fastest speed ever reached in NASCAR’s history was recorded at 212.809 miles per hour at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. The record was set in 1987 by Bill Elliot, making him NASCAR’s fastest driver. His lap is the fastest official qualifying speed in NASCAR’s history and still stands today.