Rox Fight Song

 

THIS SECTION IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORIES OF RICHARD SHORES AND GLEN LAVERTY, CLASS OF 1935, AND FRANK BEELER, COMPOSERS AND LYERICISTS OF THE ROCKVILLE FIGHT SONG

 

Richard "Dick" Shores (35) composed the music and cousin and classmate Glen O'Laverty (along with Frank Beeler) wrote the words to the Rockville High School Fight Song and dedicated it to the 1935 Basketball Team. Dick and Glen went on to graduate from Indiana University. Dick went on to become a famous Hollywood composer of many of the episode theme scores of some of TV's most memorable TV shows. His credits include episode scores to Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Virginian, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, The Dick Powell Show, Walt Disney World, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hawaii Five-0, Burke's Law, Rawhide, Wild Wild West, Jericho and many others. He also wrote many musical scores for movies. The Richard Shores Orchestra released an orchestral LP called Emotions in 1957. He did score the theme song for the show Whispering Smith. He did the opening teaser theme: "Nervous" for the Dick Powell Show. He wrote the episode background scores for many of the TV listed above. He spent the 80's and 90's writing concert music, some of which was performed and published. Shores himself assembled 12 cues from his late 60's TV scores into a privately released LP Score.
He died of a stroke in Encino, California at the age of 83. (Information and website bio link provided by Gregg and Debby Martin Schrader)
Click below to go to his profile page and see an interesting news article and pictures of Dick and his partner. Dick wrote the music and his cousin classmate Glen O'Laverty, (along with Frank Beeler from Clinton) wrote the words to the Rox Fight song.

Information Provided by Kenneth Martin '37

See Dick's long list of accomplishment and credits at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794975/ and http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/
news_events/features/2004/020604.html


 

 

 

 


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1)   Dick Shore was a Rockville Alumni?

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He graduated in 1935