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- George Aliceson Tipton was born on January 23, 1932. He was a composer, known for Phantom of the Paradise (1974), The Golden Girls (1985) and Badlands (1973). He died on February 12, 2016 in the USA.
- Tipton also arranged Nilsson's classic single "Everybody's Talkin'," which won a Grammy Award in 1969.
- The collaboration with Harry Nilsson began when Tipton put up his life's savings ($2,500) to arrange and record four Nilsson tracks which they sold to Tower, a sub-label of Capitol Records. These tracks were subsequently included on the Spotlight on Nilsson LP. Tipton and Harry Nilsson subsequently had an unexplained falling-out, and Tipton reportedly refused to be involved in the 2010 documentary on Nilsson's life and career.
- Tipton is arguably best known in the pop-rock field for his work as an arranger on singles and albums recorded by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson during the most productive phase of his career in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- He also wrote the score for the film Badlands (1973), and for the television films Home for the Holidays (1972), The Affair (1973), The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974), The Gun and the Pulpit (1974), Hit Lady (1974), Red Alert (1977), The Gift (1979), and Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985).
- His arranging and conducting credits include numerous hits by Jan and Dean, The Sunshine Company, and Jose Feliciano's hit version of "Light My Fire" by The Doors.
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