The person behind the enduring music of “SpongeBob Squarepants” has died.
Andy Paley handed away on Wednesday, Nov. 20, after a quick battle with most cancers, a consultant for his band, Tom Kenny & The Hello-Seas, confirmed to Selection and Deadline.
He was 72.
“We were blessed to have had Andy,” the band’s rep stated in a press release by way of Individuals. “He truly is the reason all this SpongeBob joy exists in music around the world. He gave us all a purpose and lots of infinite joy that the band will continue to foster in memory of his gift to us and his musical legacy.”
Paley was additionally a frequent collaborator with Brian Wilson throughout his solo profession. He made his mark in Hollywood, working with legendary musicians like Jerry Lee Lewis, the Ramones, Madonna, Elton John, Patti Smith and Deborah Harry after forming the band The Paley Brothers together with his sibling Jonathan within the ’70s.
Whereas he was broadly identified for his musical contributions to “SpongeBob Squarepants,” Paley acquired his begin in cartoons with “The Ren and Stimpy Show” within the ’90s. He additionally labored on the animated present “Camp Lazlo!” within the early 2000s.
The musician joined the “SpongeBob” crew in 2004 after the late present creator Stephen Hillenburg recruited a staff of proficient professionals to make the soundtrack for the cartoon.
Paley joined “SpongeBob” voice actor Tom Kenny and the late drummer Tom Ardolino of NRBQ to create the music. Collectively, they developed beloved youngsters’s hits for the present like “The Best Day Ever.”
He spoke about how they included catchy pop tunes into the cartoon.
“Kenny and I started planning to make these SpongeBob records with every member of the cast — Squidward, Pearl, whoever it was,” Paley stated in 2020, per the The Every day Gazette. “We thought of it like the cartoons for the Monkees or Jackson 5 or the Beatles. We just thought, ‘Why not just do good pop songs and have SpongeBob and Patrick and Plankton and everybody sing?’”
After contributing to “SpongeBob,” Paley toured together with his expensive pal Kenny and their band, Tom Kenny & The Hello-Seas.
Kenny mirrored on their bond after Paley’s passing.
“My friendship with Andy and our collaboration — writing songs and my fronting the band that he formed — is one of the greatest true joys I’ve ever experienced,” he advised Selection. “He possessed not only encyclopedic knowledge of all pop music — especially rock ‘n’ roll and girl group — but was also astoundingly astute when it came to art and literature.”
Paley leaves behind his spouse, Heather Crist Paley, their two youngsters, Jackson and Charlie, and his 4 siblings: Sarah, Brewster and Debby and brother Jonathan Paley.
The Put up has reached out to the band’s rep for remark.
