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Jim Lang (Born November 22, 1950) is an American composer best known for his scores for animated television shows and motion pictures.

Early life and education

Lang was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Although largely self-taught, he studied music briefly with Herbert Six at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and theater at Northwestern University.

Early career

In 1970, Lang left Northwestern and joined the company of the Chicago Free Street Theater and became its first music director. He held this position for several years, writing music for several of the nascent company's productions as well as a TV show called "INK- Interesting News for Kids" made in collaboration with Burr Tilstrom of "Kukla Fran and Ollie" fame and featuring WLS news anchor Fahey Flynn.

Touring, Recording, and Production

A move to Los Angeles, California in 1978 led to work as a touring musician. During the next few years Lang played and toured with several bands including Todd Rundgren, Joe Cocker, The Pointer Sisters and Juice Newton.

In the late 80s Lang worked extensively as a rhythm section arranger during the early days of MIDI synthesizers, principally on projects for producers Steve Barri and Tony Peluso including LPs for the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson.

Film and TV scoring

In 1993 Lang collaborated the score for "Body Bags," the first of two film scores with John Carpenter. The following year