After college, Goldenberg was a computer programmer, but he quit the job due to an
ulcer. He found work as a pianist and arranger. He was hired to write the soundtrack for comedy sketches of
Mike Nichols and
Elaine May in the Broadway show,
An Evening with Nichols and May. In the mid-1960s, Goldenberg met
Steven Spielberg at
Universal Studios. He started to compose music for Spielberg's television episodes on shows such as
The Name Of The Game,
Night Gallery and the 1971 TV film,
Duel. His other film scores included the
Elvis Presley film
Change of Habit (1969),
The Grasshopper (1970),
Red Sky at Morning (1971),
The Last of Sheila (1973),
Busting (1974),
The Domino Principle (1977) and
Reuben, Reuben (1983). He also wrote music for
Rhoda including its theme song,
Columbo, and the first two episodes of
Kojak, including the theme tune. Additionally he wrote scores for
Woody Allen's
Play It Again, Sam (1972) and
Up the Sandbox (1972). Later on, he was praised for all his works and his score for the
Sandbox movie was considered 'the real pulse of the movie' and also if the score could be turned into a song. He wrote the song "If I Close My Eyes" for the
Sandbox movie and then won an Emmy Award for the score of
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975). He earned 3 Emmy Awards for
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin (1974),
King and
Rage of Angels. He also scored many TV movies, such as
Fear No Evil (1969),
Ritual of Evil (1970), ''
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973), Double Indemnity (1973), The UFO Incident (1975), Helter Skelter (1976), One of My Wives Is Missing (1976), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (1977), The Cracker Factory (1979), Crisis at Central High (1981), This House Possessed (1981), The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) and Massarati and the Brain (1982), and TV miniseries including The Gangster Chronicles (1981), Rage of Angels (1983), The Atlanta Child Murders (1985), Kane and Abel (1985) and Around the World in 80 Days'' (1989). ==References==