Notable pieces Kalehoff composed many television themes and musical cues using the Moog synthesizer, alone or in combination with a band of musicians. He composed
The Price Is Right main theme, His most recent work is the new theme for the
PBS NewsHour as part of a new on-air look launched on July 20, 2015. The main theme of
The Price Is Right is officially credited to Sheila Cole, even though it was composed and performed by Kalehoff. At the time, Kalehoff was working for
Score Productions, under composer
Bob Israel. Israel assigned the theme's
Broadcast Music, Inc. publishing rights to
Mark Goodson, the producer of
The Price Is Right, so that Goodson would benefit monetarily. Israel assigned the composer credit to Sheila Cole Israel, his wife, explaining this fiction to Kalehoff as a "technicality." Israel assured Kalehoff that there would be future work with Goodson. This arrangement diverted millions of dollars of
residual away from Kalehoff. Kalehoff was named as composer in the closing credits of the television show but he did not appear on the official BMI credits for the song.
As a keyboard player and record producer Kalehoff is a noted
synthesist, being a featured performer in the documentary film
Moog and keyboardist for several albums by
the Roches. He was prominently featured in a 1973 television commercial for
Schaefer Beer as "Edd Kalehoff at the MOOG synthesizer" playing his rendition of the company's jingle. As a
record producer, he produced several albums including
Another World (1985) for
the Roches, and
Andrea McArdle's
On Broadway (1996) and
Family Christmas (2003). ==Personal life==