Known far and wide for his iconic spaghetti western scores, Hugo Montenegro had a right-time-in-the-right-place type of career that took him from New York's pop recording scene to Los Angeles and its major film and TV studios.  Born in New York City in 1925, Hugo Montenegro began writing and arranging music in high school.  After a stint as a Navy band arranger he studied composition at Manhattan College.  Originally recording pop arrangements for Dion's Dragon label, he was hired away by Time Records to make a series of jazz/pop crossover albums which led to album work with RCA Victor and a move to Hollywood.  With the television industry booming, he wrote and arranged TV themes for shows like The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which caught the ear of director Serge Leone...and the rest was history!  He will always be fondly remembered for the eerie doo-we-oo-we-oo in the Clint classic The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (composed by Ennio Morricone) - which reached #2 on the Billboard Chart.