Biography
Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, songwriter, arranger and musician. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he trained as a musician from childhood and studied at the American Boychoir School and the University of Pennsylvania before working as a session musician and arranger in the 1960s.
He has composed scores and songs for several films, including Goin' South (1978), Popeye (1980), The Brave Little Toaster (1987), for which he wrote the songs, The Two Jakes (1990) and Wild Bill (1995). His film work also includes contributions to Broken Trail (2006) and The Company (2003).
