Kenyon Hopkins

Composer/arranger Kenyon Hopkins is probably best remembered today for his work as music director for the television series The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch, but his work in music long predated and easily transcended any hit television series. Hopkins' career bridged two musical periods, from the end of the big-band era to post-war filmmaking, and he was good enough to work with some of the best in both fields. But it was as a creator of instrumental mood music -- what we now call space age pop -- that he first insinuated himself on the public. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas,...