Bunch, Velton Ray (Ray Bunch)

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Bunch, Velton Ray (Ray Bunch)

PERSONAL

Born in Goldsboro, NC; married Tina Bockrath, April 27, 2007. Education: East Carolina University, degree, music theory and composition.

Addresses:

Office—Velton Ray Bunch Productions, Inc., 509 N. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Agent—The Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency, 4111 West Alameda Ave., Suite 509, Burbank, CA 91505.

Career:

Composer and musician. Worked as a pianist and arranger for recording artists, including Ray Charles and Mac Davis; record producer for performers, including the Commodores, Andre Crouch, Mac Davis, Gladys Knight, Gloria Loring, Barbara Mandrell, Ronnie Milsap, the Oak Ridge Boys, Dolly Parton, the Pointer Sisters, Eddie Rabbit, Mike Reid, the Remmingtons, Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Rogers, Phyllis St. James, Tina Turner, and Steve Wariner. Composer of music for commercials; composer of music for more than twenty variety specials for various performers, including Bob Hope, NBC; Mac Davis (numerous specials); Brenda Lee, HBO; Loretta Lynn, HBO; Donny and Marie Osmond; the Pointer Sisters, NBC; Eddie Rabbit, ABC; and Tina Turner, CBS; composer for live events, including the 1984 presidential inauguration, the Olympic ceremonies in Los Angeles, 1984, and the U.S. Olympic Festival, 1987.

Awards, Honors:

Named one of the alumni of the year, East Carolina University, 1990; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding individual achievement in composition of a dramatic underscore for a series, 1993, for "Lee Harvey Oswald, Part 1," Quantum Leap; Emmy Award nomination (with Mark Leggett), outstanding main title theme music, 2000, for The Pretender; Emmy Award nomination (with others), 2001, for Papa's Angels; Emmy Award, outstanding music composition for a series (dramatic underscore), 2004, for Enterprise; also received a Clio Award, for commercial music.

CREDITS

Television Music Director; Series:

Dolly, ABC, 1987.

Television Music Director; Specials:

Grandpa, Will You Run With Me?, NBC, 1983.

A Gospel Session: Everybody Say Yeah!, Cinemax, 1987.

Dolly Parton: Christmas at Home, ABC, 1990.

The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, CBS, 1995, UPN, 1996, 1998.

RECORDINGS

Albums:

(And producer) Quantum Leap (soundtrack recording), GNP Crescendo, 1993.

Other albums include the soundtrack recording The Pretender.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

Ultimate Warrior, Warner Bros., 1975.

Deadly Reunion, 1995.

13 Bourbon Street, 1997.

Amazing Grace, 2000.

Also wrote scores for Bombmeister; Girlfriends, Mandalay; No Regrets; The Obit Man, Paramount; Working Stiffs, Interfilm.

Film Additional Music:

Dance with Me, Columbia, 1998.

Lost in Space (also known as LS), New Line Cinema, 1998.

Television Scores; Series:

The Mac Davis Show, NBC, 1974-76.

The Greatest American Hero, ABC, 1981-83.

The Rousters, NBC, 1983-84.

The Last Precinct, NBC, 1986.

Dolly, ABC, 1987-88.

Sonny Spoon, NBC, 1988.

Top of the Hill, CBS, 1989.

Quantum Leap, NBC, 1989-93.

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (also known as Black Jack Savage), NBC, 1991.

Palace Guard, CBS, 1991.

Against All Odds, NBC, 1992.

Crime and Punishment, NBC, 1993.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (also known as Brisco County, Jr.), Fox, 1993-94.

(As Ray Bunch) Walker, Texas Ranger, CBS, 1993-2001.

The Gordon Elliot Show, syndicated, 1994.

High Sierra Search and Rescue, NBC, 1995.

Amazing Grace, NBC, 1995.

JAG, NBC, 1995-96, CBS, 1997.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, CBS, 1996.

The Pretender, NBC, 1996-2000.

(As Ray Bunch) Nash Bridges (also known as Bridges), CBS, 1996-2001.

Flatland, 2002.

Enterprise (also known as Star Trek: Enterprise), UPN, 2002-2005.

Also composer for The Quest.

Television Additional Music; Series:

Quantum Leap, NBC, 1989-90.

Television Theme Music; Series:

Against All Odds, NBC, 1992.

The Pretender, NBC, 1997-98, 1999-2000.

Television Scores; Movies:

Adam, NBC, 1983.

Crowfoot, CBS, 1995.

The Bachelor's Baby (also known as Here Comes the Son), CBS, 1996.

Unlikely Angel, CBS, 1996.

Papa's Angels, CBS, 2000.

Little Richard, NBC, 2000.

Island of the Haunted, TNT, 2001.

Three Blind Mice (also known as Ed McBain's "Three Blind Mice"), CBS, 2001.

What Girls Learn, Showtime, 2001.

The Pretender: Island of the Haunted (also known as Island of the Haunted and Pretender 2: Island of the Haunted), TNT, 2001.

The Pretender 2001, TNT, 2001.

An Unexpected Love (also known as This Much I Know), Lifetime, 2003.

Jack, Showtime, 2004.

Faith of My Fathers, Arts and Entertainment, 2005.

Flight 93, Arts and Entertainment, 2006.

Also wrote score for Master of the Universe; Search and Rescue.

Television Music Writing; Movies:

(As Ray Bunch) Action theme, Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (also known as Bandit: Bandit and the Silver Angel), syndicated, 1994.

Television Scores; Specials:

Mac Davis Christmas Special: When I Grow Up, NBC, 1976.

Mac Davis: Sounds Like Home, NBC, 1977.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, ABC, 1977.

A Christmas Special: With Love, Mac Davis, NBC, 1979.

Mac Davis 10th Anniversary Special: I Still Believe in Music, NBC, 1980.

A Special Eddie Rabbitt, CBS, 1983.

The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies, CBS, 1993.

On Trial, NBC, 1994.

Savion Glover's Nu York, ABC, 1998.

Blue Valley Songbird, Lifetime, 1999.

The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Fox, 2001.

Also wrote scores for Elvis at Graceland, HBO; Everybody Say Amen, HBO; Paul Lynde Christmas, CBS; The Pointer Sisters in Paris, NBC.

Television Theme Music; Specials:

The 5th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Fox, 1999.

The 6th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Fox, 2000.

The 7th Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Fox, 2001.

Television Scores; Pilots:

Hunter, CBS, 1973.

Quantum Leap: Genesis (also known as Genesis), NBC, 1989.

Wanna Bet?, CBS, 1993.

Also scored Prowler; Trial by Jury.

Television Scores; Episodic:

Scored The A Team, NBC; Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (also known as Black Sheep Squadron), NBC; Brothers-in-Law; DuckTales, syndicated; Hardcastle and McCormick, ABC; Hill Street Blues, NBC; J. J. Starbuck, CBS; L.A. Law, NBC; Magnum, P.I., CBS; Mission: Impossible; Riptide, NBC; The Rockford Files, NBC; Star Trek: The Next Generation (also known as Star Trek: TNG), syndicated; The White Shadow, CBS; Wiseguy, CBS; Xena: Warrior Princess (also known as Xena).