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Hawaii Five-O! First screen credit 2005-12-16
My film writing career started in the later 1970's and though I had helped a few composers up to a point, my very first screen credit was Hawaii Five-O, which I played on for seven years and which, wonderfully enough, I got to share with my brother Bruce Broughton who everyone should look up on the internet. His credits speak for themselves thought I could say a lot of things about him that are very factual but most people think that I would be boasting just because he's my older brother.
Well he is older but only by 17 months. We both started in Hollywood around the same time. Bruce as an assistant music supervisor and me as a fledging trombonist.
All this to say that my only goal was to be a trombone player in the studios and nothing else. However, seven years later I found myself with an interesting decision to make and it lead me to the composer/conductor field.
By the time I started writing Bruce had already had several Emmy Nominations and had won one or two if memory serves me quickly. Most producers ask me if I wrote like him and my retort was always, "No, I write like Bill Broughton".
It was at a lunch with the production crew of Quincy, M.E. that I felt that I had arrived as a composer. The Executive Producer was talking about who they would like to use on the next episode and I heard him respond: "I don't care who you get as long as it's a Broughton!"
Bruce is my biggest fan and I am his. He was my first encourager and mentor when it came to arranging and composing. It was David Rose (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, The Stripper etc.) who took me to the next level and insisted that I change from player to composer, but that's another story in itself.
Everything aside, it was a monumental rush the first time I saw my name on Network Television in the US. The only thing that could come close was the pride of sharing my first job with my brother, Bruce!
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