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'''Ralph Carmichael''' (May 27, 1927 – October 18, 2021) was an American [[composer]] and [[arranger]] of both secular pop music and [[contemporary Christian music]]. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music.

==Early life and career==
Carmichael was born in [[Quincy, Illinois|Quincy]], [[Illinois]], the son of a [[Pentecostal]] minister. As a teenager, Carmichael played violin with the San Jose Civic Symphony. At seventeen, he enrolled at Southern California Bible College (now [[Vanguard University]]) to become a preacher like his father, grandfather, three uncles and five cousins. He started a campus men's quartet as well as ensembles and mixed groups of all kinds, blending jazz and classical music techniques with gospel songs and hymns. His bands were unwelcomed at many churches, and he was not allowed to store his baritone saxophone on campus because of its associations with big band music.<ref>((cite journal |author1=Anonymous |title=Music in his soul |journal=Vanguard Magazine |date=Fall 2005 | url=https://www.vanguard.edu/about/vanguard-magazine| pages=2-4, 42-43))</ref>

After college, Carmichael's band received mixed reactions from the Christian community. One church asked that they hide their drums behind a curtain; a pastor in Oakland stopped the band mid-song because the music sounded too "worldly." After a performance at a men's fellowship in Pasadena, however, Carmichael's band was invited to audition for television. The TV program drew so much response mail from Christians that the station asked for more shows.

In 1951, Carmichael was invited to score a film for the [[Billy Graham Evangelistic Association]]. In all, he scored twenty of the BGEA's films, including the funky urban soundtrack for the 1970 film ''[[The Cross and the Switchblade (film)|The Cross and the Switchblade]]''. By the late 1950s, secular producers had taken notice of Carmichael's radio and film work. He was invited to assist the composer at the television sitcom ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' and was soon arranging music for that show as well as ''[[Bonanza]]'' and ''[[The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show]]'' and for singer [[Rosemary Clooney]]. In 1958, Carmichael was hired by producer [[Jack H. Harris]] to score his science fiction film, ''[[The Blob]]''. With the success of the film, Carmichael was brought back to score Harris' follow-up film, ''[[4D Man]]''. He arranged and composed music for a [[Bing Crosby]] Christmas special television program (which prompted his denomination to strongly discourage the renewal of his ordination). He also composed and conducted the theme music for the 1965 sitcom, ''[[My Mother the Car]]''.

Carmichael's work was noticed by [[Capitol Records]] in the late 1950s. They asked him to provide arrangements for an album of mainly sacred Christmas songs by one of the label's biggest stars, [[Nat King Cole]]. The result, ''[[The Magic of Christmas (Nat King Cole album)|The Magic of Christmas]]'', was released for the 1960 festive season, by which time Capitol had already set Carmichael to work with Cole on more secular albums.

Carmichael duly became Cole's most regularly utilized arranger from then until the singer's death in early 1965. Their first mainstream pop collaboration was ''[[The Touch of Your Lips (album)|The Touch of Your Lips]]'' (also 1960), an album of romantic ballads backed by lush strings, and their final collaboration was Cole's last album, ''[[L-O-V-E (album)|L-O-V-E]].'' Featuring jazzy big band arrangements, it was recorded in December 1964, only two months before Cole succumbed to [[lung cancer]], which was already in its advanced stages.

==Artistic Style==
Carmichael's experiments in pop-rock style Christian music in the 1960s and 1970s brought him recognition as the "Father of [[Contemporary Christian Music]]".<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.mymusicway.com/biography/rcarmcl2.html |title=Ralph Carmichael - Biography page 2 |access-date=2006-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313135228/http://www.mymusicway.com/biography/rcarmcl2.html |archive-date=2007-03-13 ))</ref><ref>((cite web |url=http://www.ag.org/pentecostal-evangel/conversations2002/4623_carmichael.cfm |title=New Music for a Timeless Message|publisher=Today's Pentecostal Evangel |access-date=2006-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015030909/http://www.ag.org/pentecostal-evangel/conversations2002/4623_carmichael.cfm |archive-date=2006-10-15 ))</ref>((By whom|date=June 2023)) He founded [[Light Records]] in order to widen the audience for the music of the [[Jesus People]].<ref name="Mount_Web">((cite book |last=Mount |first=Daniel J. |title=A City on a Hilltop? The History of Contemporary Christian Music |year=2005 |url=http://www.danielmount.net/ccm.html |access-date=2007-02-12 |pages=16–17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203163712/http://www.danielmount.net/ccm.html |archive-date=2007-02-03 ))</ref> He was subject to controversy from within the church, being called a [[Heresy|heretic]] for his use of guitars in worship and his adaptations of Gospel songs to big band stylings.<ref name="Powell_Fe">((cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |year=2002 |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |location=[[Peabody, Massachusetts|Peabody]], [[Massachusetts]] |isbn=1-56563-679-1 |edition=First printing |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/144 144–145] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/144 ))</ref>

[[Manna Music Inc]] founders Tim and Hal Spencer introduced [[Andraé Crouch]] to Carmichael, helping to launch Crouch's recording career. Carmichael also provided the backing for a number of [[RCA]] albums by Gospel singer [[George Beverly Shea]], including ''The Love of God'' in 1958, and ''How Great Thou Art'' in 1969. In 1969, Carmichael and [[Kurt Kaiser]] collaborated on ''Tell It Like It Is'', a folk musical about God. The record album of the musical, which included the song "Pass It On", sold 2,500 copies, completely selling out the first run; it then completely sold out its second run of 100,000 copies. [[The Carpenters]] recorded Carmichael's song "Love is Surrender" on their 1970 album ''[[Close to You (The Carpenters album)|Close to You]]''.<ref>((cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Carmichael Score Captures Israel Soul in New Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSkEAAAAMBAJ&q=tell+it+like+it+is+ralph+carmichael+love+is+surrender+carpenters&pg=RA1-PA53 |magazine=Billboard |date=November 7, 1970 |access-date=October 2, 2021))</ref>

One of Carmichael's contemporary hymns, "[[Reach Out to Jesus]]", was recorded by [[Elvis Presley]], on the singer's 1972 [[Grammy Award]]-winning album of sacred songs, ''[[He Touched Me (album)|He Touched Me]]''. His album ''Strike Up the Band'' won a [[Dove Award]] for "Instrumental Album of the Year" at the [[25th GMA Dove Awards]] in 1994.<ref name="DOVE95">"[http://www.doveawards.com/history/browse.cfm?year=1995 Dove Award Recipients for 1995] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311040429/http://www.doveawards.com/history/browse.cfm?year=1995 |date=2007-03-11 ))". Published by the [[Gospel Music Association]]. Retrieved 2007-02-05.</ref>

Carmichael wrote arrangements for many other top performers, including [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Bing Crosby]], [[Jack Jones (singer)|Jack Jones]], [[Peggy Lee]], [[Julie London]], [[Al Martino]] and [[Roger Williams (pianist)|Roger Williams]].((Citation needed|date=June 2023)) He arranged most of the carols on the 1961 [[Stan Kenton]] album ''A Merry Christmas!''.((Citation needed|date=June 2023))

==Personal life==
In 1948, Carmichael married singer Evangeline Otto; they divorced in 1964. Their daughter Carol Celeste Carmichael, later [[Carol Parks]] (1949–2010), was a vocalist and assistant record producer.<ref>[http://tolucantimes.info/obituaries/in-memoriam-evangeline-carmichael-mcpherson-27-september-1926%E2%80%949-july-2009/ "In Memoriam: Evangeline Carmichael McPherson"] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827083735/http://tolucantimes.info/obituaries/in-memoriam-evangeline-carmichael-mcpherson-27-september-1926%E2%80%949-july-2009/ |date=2017-08-27 )) ''[[The Tolucan Times]]'' (July 15, 2009) Retrieved August 26, 2017</ref> He married his second wife, Marvella Price, in 1965.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.homecomingmagazine.com/article/hall-of-honor-ralph-carmichael/|title=Hall of Honor: Ralph Carmichael|last=Sutherland|first=Emily|date=December 1, 2020|work=Homecoming Magazine|access-date=18 July 2020))</ref>

Carmichael's autobiography, ''He's Everything to Me'', was published by [[Word Books]] in 1986.

===Death===
Carmichael died on October 18, 2021, in [[Camarillo, California|Camarillo]], [[California]]. He was 94.<ref>((cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/10/ralph-carmichael-dead-composer-music-arranger-the-blob-my-mother-the-car-chestnuts-roasting-was-94-1234859279/|title=Ralph Carmichael Dies: 'The Blob' & 'My Mother The Car' Composer, Arranger Of Beloved Christmas Classics Was 94|publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|first=Greg|last=Evans|date=October 20, 2021|accessdate=October 21, 2021))</ref>

== Recognition ==
Carmichael was inducted into the [[Gospel Music Association|GMA]] [[Gospel Music Hall of Fame]] in 1985<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.gmahalloffame.org/inductee_bio.cfm?ID=324 |title=GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame: Carmichael, Ralph |access-date=2006-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060712204256/http://www.gmahalloffame.org/inductee_bio.cfm?ID=324 |archive-date=2006-07-12 ))</ref> and into the National Religious Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 2001.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509120957/http://www.ralphcarmichael.com Archived version of official website from May 2017]
* ((Discogs artist|Ralph Carmichael))
* ((imdb name|0138453))

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