Man Moon, Nickelodeon Composer, Dies at 63

Man Moon, a composer for varied Nickelodeon and Cartoon Community exhibits, handed away earlier within the week. He was 63.

Per his family, Moon was died in a automobile accident on Thursday and later succumed to his accidents. “We really feel singularly blessed to have been capable of name him dad and husband,” their assertion reads. “As we stand collectively on the base of what appears to be an insurmountable grief, we’re emboldened to grieve him with honor and braveness with the instruments that he geared up us with in his lovely life.”

Born February 7, 1962, Moon’s credit additionally embody 2 Silly Canine, the 1992 Addams Household collection, and the Brady Bunch films. For these rising up within the 90s and 2000s, his music was throughout Nickelodeon specifically: he did the theme track and episode music for Pretty Oddparents and Danny Phantom (together with their varied films), and did further work on Jimmy Neutron and Spongebob Squarepants. His work on Oddparents landed him an Emmy nomination in 2004 for Abra-Disaster, that present’s first particular. Per IMDB, his final credited work was for the 2025 homicide thriller collection The Artist.

After information of Moon’s passing, Oddparents director John F. Fountain remembered the composer as “our Carl Stalling. His compositions had been an integral a part of the present’s character. It’s a testomony to Man’s expertise that I nearly by no means noticed him in my time as a director. I by no means as soon as felt the necessity to direct him, as a result of I knew he would hit it out of the park each single time. And he did, with out fail. Could his legacy present us together with his signature jazzy, upbeat rhythm in our hearts perpetually.”

Moon’s household stated they’ve “tentative” plans to have a good time his life on Saturday, February 7, what would’ve been his sixty fourth birthday in Los Angeles and his hometown in Wisconsin. For now, they need followers of his work to recollect his “unmistakable legacy. [He] will probably be profoundly missed by us, his household, and numerous others whose lives he impacted.”

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