Al Ham

Biography

Albert W. Ham (February 6, 1925 in Malden, Massachusetts — October 4, 2001 in Spring Hill, Florida) was an American composer and jingle writer. He was notable as the composer of the Move Closer to Your World music package used since the 1970s on WPVI-TV's Action News broadcasts in Philadelphia, and, most notably, WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News, as well as on many other newscasts in the United States throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also created the adult standards radio format Music of Your Life.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Merry Christmas

  1958

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  I Left My Heart In San Francisco

  1962

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  Drums Of Passion

  1960

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  I Wanna Be Around

  1963

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  Once Upon A Summertime

  1958

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  The Beat Of My Heart

  1957

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  I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing

  1971

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  Colours

  1968

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  Hawaii Connie

  1968

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  Stop The World - I Want To Get Off (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  1962

Credited work

287 releases · 76 albums · active 1951–2025

• Performance · 334
• Production · 215
• Other credits · 28
• Engineering · 1

Studios: Columbia 30th Street Studio · Sony Music Studios, New York City · Commercial Sound · Regent Sound Studios, New York City

Frequent collaborators

• Tony Bennett
• Various
• Johnny Mathis
• The Hillside Singers
• The Midas Touch
• The Glencoves
• Bobby Wood
• Anthony Newley

Around the web

• Wikipedia