He got his first job -- he'd never recorded a score in his life -- by taping bits of Goldsmith, Mancini and so on, and passing on the music to the producer, claiming the stuff was his! (He was clever enough not to use main titles or easily identifiable themes.) But once he had to actually WRITE the score, he realized how little technical knowledge he actually had ... he telephoned a friend in a panic in the middle of one night -- "How do you write a viola clef?" The friend didn't know either.

All those stories from Budd himself, told to SOUNDTRACK! magazine in 1984 or so. He was a cheerful fellow and didn't take himself too seriously. I was surprised that he died so young.