Bob Thompson was raised in the small California town of Auburn. Hearing Duke Ellington on the radio during the...
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🎂 Bob Thompson - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Bob Thompson die, Bob Thompson was 89 years old.

Popular As	Bob Thompson
Occupation	Music Department
Age	89 years old
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Born	August 22, 1924 (San Jose, California, USA)
Birthday	August 22
Town/City	San Jose, California, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Bob Thompson’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Bob Thompson was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.

Bob Thompson was raised in the small California town of Auburn. Hearing Duke Ellington on the radio during the Depression was a turning point in his life, sending him on to a career in music. His education consisted of short academic music stints combined with apprenticeships to music arrangers - and practical training as a staff arranger at San Francisco's NBC station - KGO.

Bob also played in jazz bands (piano), most memorably with Barney Bigard of Duke Ellington's orchestra when he was just 18.Bob's breakthrough came after he moved to Hollywood and was an RCA darling, recording records there and arranging for its stars like Rosemary Clooney (who called Bob "one hell of an arranger" in her recent autobiography) and Bing Crosby.

Bob also worked with Mae West, Gloria Lasso, Julie London, and Ruth Olay.During a career that spanned 40 years as a Hollywood composer and arranger, Bob wrote music for thousands of commercials, TV themes, movies - and 4 of his own albums which have been come to be known as "Space Age Bachelor Pad" classics.

Tunes from those records (Starfire, Early-Bird Whirly-Bird) have been used from their creation in the late 1950s to the present as music for TV shows, radio shows and commercials. Bob also arranged the famous scene in Picnic (1955) in which Kim Novak and William Holden dance.

"Go Go Goodyear" is one of Bob's most famous commercials, garnering him one of his three "Cleos" (awards for excellence in advertising music). Bob also won a Grammy nomination for his RCA tune, "Just for Kicks.