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David L. Hamilton Dies: Emmy-Nominated Composer & Founding Keyboardist For Pavlov’s Dog Was 74


David L. Hamilton, who co-founded and played keys for the prog-rock group Pavlov's Dog before pivoting to a Emmy-nominated composing career, died June 20 at 74.

David L. Hamilton, who co-founded and played keyboards for the prog-rock group Pavlov’s Dog before pivoting to a composing career and earning an Emmy nom, has died. Hamilton continued to write music for TV and penned to score for Orleans, a short-lived CBS legal drama fronted by Larry Hagman, in his first starring small-screen role after Dallas. Hamilton then composed the score for Thanks of a Grateful Nation, a scripted Showtime drama about the Gulf War that starred Ted Danson, Brian Dennehy and Jennifer Jason Leigh and won a Humanitas Prize.

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