- Award-winning composer/songwriter/lyricist, known for his eclecticism and humor. Specializes in music for kids and is composer/lyricist for the Emmy-nominated Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) and Music Director for the TV series, Zoom (1997). He has written and produced hundreds of songs for TV and film, including award-winning projects for Disney, Nickelodeon, PBS, Sesame Workshop and The Jim Henson Company. Joe Carroll was literally raised in a booking agency. With a booking agent mother and a bandleader father, he grew up in the midst of the New York music business. Surrounded by a "Broadway Danny Rose" cast of musicians, comedians, singers and entertainers, he first performed professionally at age 12. High school at Manhattan's Collegiate School, some years on the road performing with various groups and a brief stint directing and producing local TV commercials led to a career as a composer/producer, beginning in 1980.
In 1981-1982, Carroll was a member of the highly-innovative "Timmy and the Ken Dolls". A hideous commercial failure, they were known for their complex multimedia performances that included a projectionist, tape operators and sound effects personnel. As a music producer at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising (1982-1987), Joe earned a reputation for going to great lengths to create the sound for a project, recording in a church in Montreal, a cattle ranch in Oregon and in London at studios made famous by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. Projects included Toyota, L'eggs, Wendy's, Helene Curtis, Wrangler, General Mills, Nabisco, and Proctor and Gamble. He launched his own music production company in 1988 and continued to produce commercial music for Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann-Erickson, Foote, Cone & Belding, Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather. Numerous awards including The London International Advertising award and several Clio nominations.
In 1996-1997, he was Supervising Sound Editor for Nickelodeon's The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (1996). Seuss used a variety of groundbreaking techniques to achieve complex integration of dialog, sound effects and music. In addition to serving as principal composer and musical director for the show, he supervised all audio post production in a 12-person music and sound department. The work included supervision of sound effects, dialog editing, music, sound design, foley, dialog replacement and final mix supervision for 20 unique half hour shows. Seuss won Writer's Guild, Bronze and Silver Telly awards and was nominated for several Emmys including Outstanding Children's Program. While Music Director for the PBS series, Zoom (1997) (1998-2003), he developed an interest in early learning, specifically as it pertains to music and movement. This has led to the development of a number of media projects aimed at teaching kids creative expression through the use of music, eurhythmics, acoustics and yoga. His current goal is to create a multimedia brand based on his approach.
In August 2003, Joe launched The Manhattan Producers Alliance, a groundbreaking cooperative business model for composers, producers and sound designers... members and their clients can access the Alliance studios 24/7, from anywhere in the world simply by connecting to the Web. The Manhattan Producers Alliance has been well-received in the trade press, with articles featured in Post Magazine, Mix, Broadcast Engineering and Videography.
He continues to compose for children's television completing "Share a Story" for PBS/Eyepop and "Nick Jr. Playalong" for Nickelodeon in late 2003. His career highlights include performing with Zippy the Chimp, a tuxedo-clad chimpanzee whose skills included drinking bourbon and roller-skating, sometimes simultaneously. He was once offered a job to play guitar wearing a pig suit and sing songs about bacon in shopping malls.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Don Henze
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