- Pianist and composer known for his TV sitcom themes. He recorded 25 albums and it was his hands tinkling the ivories for Tyrone Power in The Eddy Duchin Story (1956).
- Attended Juilliard and worked as an arranger for big bands; lead the Air Force band during WWII.
- George Greeley also appeared on the Chicago-based TV series "Great Music From Chicago" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on March 15, 1964. Among other selections he performed Aram Khatchaturian's "Sabre Dance," and the Main theme ("On the Trail") from Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite.".
- George Greeley appeared on the Chicago based TV series, "Great Music From Chicago" on Nov.18, 1962. Robert Trendler conducted the Chicago Symphony, with Greely appearing as guest piano soloist in a program of music by American composers.
- George Greeley participated in six television variety shows from Australia. He also appeared as guest conductor and pianist in South Korea. In the eighties Greeley also produced a number of record albums, including a six-volume series of LP albums for Hyundai Records entitled "Just Beautiful Music.".
- Arthur Feidler conducted the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring the music of George Gershwin in September of 1975. George Greeley was featured as solo pianist performing George Gershwin's "Concerto in F.".
- In 1957 George Greeley did a concert tour of South America, and this included an appearance as Guest Conductor of the Argentine Symphony.
- Like his father before him, George Greeley continued the family tradition of father-son piano concerts. In 1960, the older Greeley son, Edward, appeared on stage with his father in a sentimental performance (30 years previous) of a musical number featuring two generations of Greeleys.
- George Greeley acted as Conductor on TV shows featuring Donald O'Connor, Brian Donlevy, and Buster Keaton.
- Greeley's theme for My Favorite Martian (1963-66) is notable as one of the first uses of an electronic instrument in a television theme and prominently features an electro-theremin, played by Paul Tanner, co-creator of the instrument, who was at the time the lead trombonist for the ABC Orchestra.
- Starting as an arranger and pianist with several notable big bands in the 1940s, he segued into the Hollywood radio scene, working on several nationally broadcast variety programs.
- He often played four-handed piano pieces with his father, and they gave father-son recitals.
- Concurrent with his work at Columbia Pictures, George Greeley also worked at Capitol Records as music director, pianist, and conductor for many artists such as Gordon MacRae, Jane Powell, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine, and Doris Day.
- Moving into television (between the 1960s and 1985), he composed the theme and background music for several popular TV series including My Favorite Martian starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby, My Living Doll starring Robert Cummings and Julie Newmar, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Nanny and the Professor, and Small Wonder (1985).
- George Greeley entered the music business after meeting Sy Oliver, Duke Ellington's arranger. Oliver taught him the art of arranging for big bands, and Greeley began his career arranging music for several popular figures such as Tommy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Abe Lyman, Leo Reisman, and Kay Kyser.
- In addition to his film and TV work, Greeley performed as a piano soloist and guest conductor in Montreal, Korea, and Rio de Janeiro. In 1957 he did an extensive concert tour of South America, and conducted the Argentine Symphony in Buenos Aires.
- Greeley won a scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied piano and composition, graduating in 1939.
- It was Greeley's hands that performed the piano parts that Tyrone Power mimed in The Eddy Duchin Story.
- He worked as pianist on several hundred motion pictures, worked with many famous composers orchestrating their soundtrack compositions, and created original compositions of his own in several dozen movies.
- In the States, among his televised concert appearances, Greeley was guest pianist on Chicago's WGN-TV series titled "Great Music From Chicago.".
- After about a year with Dorsey, Greeley defected to Abe Lyman because as he said: "the money was better, and Abe had me writing three arrangements a week. I'd studied composition and orchestration at Juilliard, and wanted to practice what I'd learned.".
- He was hired in the late 1950s by the newly established Warner Brothers Records. George Greeley arranged, orchestrated and performed as primary artist for a series of hit recordings entitled "Popular Piano Concertos.".
- At the time of Greeley's death, Jon Burlingame. who was a USC professor teaching a class on the history of film scoring, stated that Greeley was an "extraordinary pianist.".
- Most of the family's members were musically gifted and could play many instruments. His father, James, had three music schools and a traveling orchestra. Georgio /George was taught to read music at an early age and was playing piano and mandolin when he was five.
- Greeley's stint at Warner Brothers ended as times and popular tastes changed. He was let go by Mike Maitland who had succeeded Jim Conklin as label president. Ironically he was personally signed to the Reprise label by his old friend and bandmate, Frank Sinatra. Even more ironic, Sinatra sold the label to Warner Bros., and Greeley was trimmed once more.
- Greeley was an Italian-American pianist, conductor, composer, arranger, recording artist and record producer who is known for his extensive work across the spectrum of the entertainment industry.
- He studied music at Columbia University, where he met and formed a long-time friendship with composer/arranger/bandleader Paul Weston, with whom Greeley worked in later years at Capitol Records and Columbia Records.
- After conducting an Army Air Force Band during World War II, he was hired by Columbia Pictures as a staff pianist and orchestrator.
- He joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra as pianist on the same day that Frank Sinatra became the band's new vocalist in January 1940.
- He also studied music at the University of Southern California, and studied composition privately with Ernst Toch.
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