Charles Albertine (February 24, 1929 – May 18, 1986) was an American musician, composer, and arranger of the space-age pop era.
He is best known as an arranger for Les and Larry Elgart, Sammy Kaye, and The Three Suns, and as the composer of Bandstand Boogie.
[1] In the 1950s and 60s, he arranged and composed on recordings for Les and Larry Elgart, Sammy Kaye, The Three Suns and others.
His compositions were recorded by artists as diverse as Chet Atkins, Bud Powell, Barry Manilow, and Lawrence Welk.
Two of his best-known compositions were "Bandstand Boogie" (a tune he wrote for the Elgarts), which was later used by Dick Clark as the theme for his long-running American Bandstand; and the theme to the soap opera Days of Our Lives, which he wrote with Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.