Posted
6:40 PM
by Gene
A doubly-sad day in show-biz:
Earle Hagen, the prolific composer of easy-to-remember TV theme songs like Andy Griffith's and Dick Van Dyke's, has died. Someone like that may very superficially fit the dictionary definition of a hack, but to be able to get the millions humming your tunes day in and day out, to do it consistently for years, is no hack work.