Music director and composer Geoff Harvey, who worked on some of Nine Network's most popular TV shows, has died at the age of 83.
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Mr Harvey, who a fixture on Australian television, spent 38 years at the Nine Network where he also composed many theme songs for the network, such as those for The Sullivans, A Current Affair and Today.
He became a familiar TV identity through his 22 years at The Midday Show - a 90 minute variety program which featured numerous musical performances.
He also worked on The Don Lane Show, Bob Roger's Tonight Show and Bandstand.
Ray Martin paid tribute to the musical "maestro" following his death.
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"He was a one-off character, he was amazing...He was just a barrel of laughs," he told the Nine Network.
"If there was a face of television, it probably isn't Bert [Newton] or Graham [Kennedy], it's Geoff Harvey."
"Every time you needed someone to rescue a program, Geoff would come in ... he was always there, he was the maestro."
After leaving Nine, Mr Harvey worked with orchestras around the country and spent 19 years as the musical director of the Carols by Candlelight, held in Melbourne on Christmas Eve.
The musician was recently on a tour of Australia doing a show called Senior Moments.
He was born and raised in the UK, and left for Australia after the end of World War II.
Australian Associated Press
