This rare Maury Laws orchestra promo 45 is on our Easter cd! #Thekingkongtheme

Today is my late, great dear friend Maury Laws birthday! It is also the 61st of the first broadcast of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! #maurylaws #Rankinbassmusicalcomposer

The late, great composer/conductor of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer Maury Laws with Rankin/Bass productions Historian/Biographer Rick Goldschmidt.

Remember8ng Rankin/Bass composer/supervisor, Maury Laws, on his Birthday! I have his original Invite that he wrote a note in, telling his relative to watch the premiere of Rudolph on his birthday December 6th, 1964! His orchestrations in that are amazing! I recorded a long interview with Maury about his career on our Daydreamer cd #Maurylaws #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #Rankinbassconductor #composer

Today would have been my late friend Maury Law's 99th Birthday! I have his original Invite that he wrote a note in, telling his relative to watch the premiere of Rudolph on his birthday December 6th, 1964! His orchestrations in that are amazing! I recorded a long interview with Maury about his career on our Daydreamer cd #Maurylaws #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #Rankinbassconductor #composer

A Rankin/Bass Productions project I worked on with Andy Williams, Paul Coker, Jr., Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Maury Laws. Detailed in my book, the 20th Anniversary edition of The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass. #themostwonderfultimeoftheyear

In my Etsy shop! The only off-Broadway musical Rankin/Bass Productions Produced. The sound quality is poor, but it is good to hear what it was like. Maury Laws said Jules was never the same, after it failed.

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Maury Laws leant me his sheet music to "Don't give your love away" from Cricket on the Hearth, many years ago, and it did not feature Ed Ames on the cover. It featured another favorite, Jack Jones. #rankinbassproductionsofficial #Jackjones #Cricketonrhehearth

🎼"and we'll have a thousand days of may"

I was going through some old pictures for a big article that comes out Monday online! I spent many hours working on this story!

Signing Rudolph books at CBS2 Chicago

 

Hanging out with Maury Laws at the Drake Hotel in Chicago.  We brought the Rudolph and Santa Publicity puppets to show him.  He saw both of my news appearances that day and enjoyed them.

 

Holding the Animagic figure of Octavia from Rankin/Bass' The First (White) Christmas from 1975,  Octavia had both sets of clothes on that she wears in the TV Special.   She also came with all of her mouths, eyes and eye lids.

 

An appearance I did at the Mid-Ohio con in Ohio!

Kevin Kriess and I with the publicity puppets from Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 2006.  These puppets were not used in the actual animation.

Mid-Ohio con 2007

 My daughter Sara working the booth at Mid-Ohio con.  She is a Veterinarian today.

Remembering Maury Laws...

The late, great Maury Laws signed the master of the interview I did with him for the Daydreamer CD. The notes on the back are mine, for where to drop music in. We covered his entire career. #Maurylaws

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General Electric Holiday Appliances

 Antony Peters designed this and it is pictured in my book, The making of the Rankin/Bass Holiday classic:  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Videocraft International (Later known as Rankin/Bass Productions) did many commercials, both live action and Animagic (See my book The Arthur Rankin, Jr. Scrapbook:  The Birth of Animagic).  Tony was always involved with these commercials and his designs were used through 1965.  Maury Laws told me, he developed his Rankin/Bass Christmas music, through these 1962 General Electric commercials.  He said he borrowed some from the Nutcracker, but it turned into his own unique style.  This is Maury's music with the session voice people that were also used in the 1964 Rudolph GE Commercials.  The same actors also appeared in the soundtracks for Willy McBean and his Magic Machine and The Daydreamer.

Today is Maury Laws' Birthday!

Happy November!🦃 www.miserbros.com #November #rudolphtherednosedreindeer #rankinbassproductionsofficial

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Loved this guy! His music will live on forever! He would have been 98 today! Rudolph premiered on his birthday in 1964 🎅 Happy Maury Laws' Birthday! We all miss Maury! I dedicated my Santa Claus is Comin' to town 50th anniversary book to him and my late friend Bradley Bolke! #Maurylaws #Birthday #rankinbass #composer #conductor