Biography
Alex North (born Isadore Soifer; December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer. He wrote the music for the Oscar-nominated song "Unchained Melody", which was used in the 1955 prison film Unchained. The song became a standard and one of the most recorded of the 20th century, with over 1,500 recordings made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Achtung Baby
1991
Stardust
1978
Greatest Hits / Live
1980
Encore Of Golden Hits
1960
Moody Blue
1977
The In Crowd
1965
Eastern Sounds
1962
The Best Of 1980-1990 & B-Sides
1998
Wild Things Run Fast
1982
I Hear A Symphony
1966
Livin' Inside Your Love
1979
The Essential Heart
2002
Phil Spector's 20 Greatest Hits
1976
Livin' For You
1973
Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings
2021
Back To Mono (1958-1969)
1991
Golden Hits Part 2
1970
Exotic Moog
1969
Tamboo!
1955
Classics
2014
All I Want Is You
1989
The Swing Of Delight
1980
The Best Of Sonny & Cher
1967
Memories Are Made Of This
1960
Credited work
5,986 releases · 1,241 albums · active 1951–2025
- Performance · 6,162
- Other credits · 330
- Production · 5
Studios: The Bohemian Caverns · Enactron Truck · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Webster Hall
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- The Righteous Brothers
- The Platters
- Bill Evans
- Andy Williams
- Elvis Presley
- Unknown Artist
- Jimmie Rodgers (2)