From spaghetti westerns to love stories, composer Ennio Morricone has written music for over 500 films and television shows.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Cinema Paradiso, The Mission are just a few of the memorable scores Morricone has penned through his long career. He has also orchestrated works and collaborated with singers such as Paul Anka & Chet Baker, and is equally at home in the classical, jazz and pop worlds.

He has won Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, AFI Awards, Golden Globes, Italian Golden Globes, and the list goes on and on. We love to play his music on Classic107, so you never know when one of his songs will grace the airwaves. 

Happy Birthday to a wonderful, legendary, living composer.