High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is an American film and TV score composer. Edelman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of a first-grade teacher and an accountant. He attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before heading to New York where he played piano in Broadway pit orchestras. He produced several solo albums of songs (some of which were later recorded by The Carpenters ("I Can't Make Music," "Piano Picker," and "You"), Barry Manilow ("Weekend in New England"), "If Love Is Real" from Olivia Newton-John's Olivia Newton-John and others) before moving to Los Angeles. It was there where Edelman started to work in TV and film scoring.