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25 Surprising Facts You Didn’t Know About The Simpsons’ Emmy-Winning Composer Alf Clausen
Alf Clausen might not be a household name, but his music has been in your head for decades. The sly string runs under Sideshow Bob, the Broadway-sized numbers about monorails and burlesque houses, the emotional underscoring that made Springfield’s chaos feel cinematic — that was Alf. From Jamestown, North Dakota, to the world’s biggest animated family, Clausen’s career is a map of television’s golden sound. Here are 25 things you didn’t know about him, each one another note in a life scored to perfection.
- Alf was born in Minneapolis on March 28, 1941, but grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota.
- Henry Mancini’s Sounds and Scores was the book that inspired him to pursue composing.
- He started on French horn in seventh grade, sang in choir, and later picked up bass guitar.
- He originally studied mechanical engineering before switching to music theory at North Dakota State.
- He took a Berklee correspondence course in jazz and big band writing while still in Fargo.
- He was the first French horn player to attend Berklee when he enrolled in the ’60s.
- His playing appears on Berklee’s Jazz in the Classroom albums.
- After graduating in 1966, he taught at Berklee for a year before heading west.
- In Los Angeles, he ghostwrote jingles, arranged charts, and even copied the music for The Partridge Family theme.
- Donny & Marie hired him as a score writer after an emergency chart; he soon became their full music director.
- For years, he flew weekly from LA to Utah to record the show’s score.
- He scored 63 of the 65 episodes of Moonlighting — including the black-and-white dream episode and Atomic Shakespeare.
- He composed for ALF, weaving quirky music around the show’s puppet star.
- His orchestration work included films like The Beastmaster, Splash, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and The Naked Gun.
- He joined The Simpsons in 1990, after Matt Groening told him the show should be scored like a drama, not a cartoon.
- He once wrote 57 musical cues in a single week for the series.
- His motto: “I can make you feel five ways in thirteen seconds.”
- Clausen avoided strict character themes, instead giving each episode its own “mini-movie” score.
- The one exception: Mr. Burns and Sideshow Bob got their own recurring motifs.
- He always used a full 35-piece orchestra — a rarity for TV.
- He won back-to-back Emmys for The Simpsons songs “We Put the Spring in Springfield” and “You’re Checkin’ In.”
- He was nominated for more Emmy Awards than any other musician — 30 in total.
- He won five Annie Awards for The Simpsons episodes across a decade.
- His work lives on in three soundtrack albums: Songs in the Key of Springfield (1997), Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons (1999), and The Simpsons: Testify (2007).
- In 2011, ASCAP gave him the Golden Note Award, with Paul Williams praising his “wonderfully happy music.”
Alf Clausen’s career is a reminder that music on television can be as inventive, powerful, and lasting as anything in concert halls or cinemas. His scores didn’t just accompany jokes — they elevated them, turned satire into spectacle, and made cartoon emotions feel deeply real. In Springfield and beyond, his sound is timeless, proof that even in a world of quick gags, the right melody lingers forever.