Earl Brown (3)

American singer, songwriter, vocal arranger, and musical director for many TV shows.
Born December 25. 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Died January 10, 2008 in Sherman Oaks, California.

Known as mostly as Earl Brown, he is probably most famous for penning the song "If I Can Dream" written specially to close the "Comeback Special for NBC" by Elvis Presley. He also sang with The Skylarks and led The Earl Brown Singers.
As the Musical Director of the 1968 "Elvis" TV Special, on short notice, during the week of taping, he composed "If I Can Dream" in honor of Martin Luther King. Elvis sang it as the closing number and recorded it, and it became Elvis' first million selling single in over 3 years. Over the years as Musical Director, he won accolades composing special musical material for the long running "Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1956-63) as well as " The Sonny and Cher Show ", "Donny and Marie" and many other weekly variety and specialty shows. He was also a writer on some of the TV shows he composed and directed music for. He frequently did the vocal arrangments for Rosemary Clooney in the 1990s.