PERRY BOTKIN, JR.
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COMPOSER / ARRANGER / PRODUCER

MAKING MUSIC HISTORY MULTIPLE TIMES

Perry made music history in 1973 when a cue from a film he’d scored, two years earlier, became the theme song for one of the longest running (50 years) TV series’, still in production, today
 
He then won a Grammy for the same song, four years later for a single he and his co-writer, Barry DeVorzon, recorded  and released after the same piece of music was used in a montage of videos for an Olympic athlete, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, drawing worldwide attention to it, this time
 
The same song was sampled by a multi-platinum-selling artist for the title song of her album, which was released three times:  on the first release of the album, produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, on the second re-packaged release, remixed by Puff Daddy, and on a collection album, the following year, remixed by Thunderpuss
 
He wrote, arranged and conducted on an album, in 1972, for which he hired many of the Wrecking Crew musicians, a track from which is now being credited with the birth of Hip-Hop and was the subject 2012 documentary, "SampleThis!"
 
One of his compositions from that same album was featured in the Sony Pictures 2017 hit movie, “Baby Driver”

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