ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is DAY TO DAY.  I'm Alex Chadwick.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: That version of "Three Blind Mice" is "The Three Stooges"      theme. It was adapted and arranged by a composer named Lyle "Spud"      Murphy.  Over the weekend we learned that he died.  He was 96 years old.      He was beloved as both an arranger and as a teacher.  Spud Murphy was a      classically trained woodwind player who went on to work as a composer and      arranger for Columbia Pictures, where he scored music for 50 movies,      including several starring Fred Astaire. Popular music figures such as      Benny Goodman turned to Spud Murphy for arrangements of songs that became      classic hits.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Over the years, Spud Murphy developed a method for arranging      that serves as a kind of unified field theory for a variety of      composition and arrangements techniques.  It's called the equal-interval      theory, and Spud Murphy described it as a simple way of creating      individual lines of music that all hang together.  Hundreds of musicians      and arrangers, from Herbie Hancock to Oscar Peterson studied and put his      ideas into their own work.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: That's Oscar Peterson's "Night Train."  Lyle "Spud" Murphy      wrote dozens of books on music theory and technique, but he also found      time for other interests.  He was a passionate fan of boxing, an amateur      astronomer, an avid collector of history about the ill-fated ocean liner      the Titanic.  Lyle "Spud" Murphy died early this month in Los Angeles      following complications from surgery.  He was 96 years old.
Over the weekend, we learned of the death of music arranger Lyle "Spud" Murphy. Alex Chadwick looks back at some of his music and the techniques he developed for composing and arranging that still influence musicians today.