Lee Holdridge

Lee Holdridge (b. 1944) is a composer, arranger, conductor, and orchestrator who often collaborated with John Denver. He arranged the orchestra for A Christmas Together (also composing music for the song "Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913" and "Carol for a Christmas Tree," the keyboard accompaniment for "Alfie the Christmas Tree"). He was musical arranger on the subsequent TV special and orchestral arranger again for the album Rocky Mountain Holiday.

Holdridge later composed the opera number "Il Colosso" (with Brian May) and co-adapted "Funiculì, Funiculà" as "Luigi's Welcome" for the Creature Shop-effects film The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Holdridge first worked with Denver on his 1973 album Farewell Andromeda (arranging strings) and they continued to collaborate on albums, concerts, and TV specials as late as 1990. He wrote and/or arranged songs for Neil Diamond, Diana Ross, and Anne Murray. Holdridge composed themes to several TV series, including Beauty and the Beast, Eight Is Enough, and Moonlighting and scored an assortment of TV movies. In film, he scored and often orchestrated or conducted titles like Transylvania 6-5000, Mr. Mom, and Splash.