John Cacavas

Their father's younger brother Chris had also immigrated to South Dakota and lived in Aberdeen, where he married and had a family.

During service in the military, Cacavas was assigned to Washington, DC where he was an arranger for the United States Army Band.

After studying music, in the 1960s Cacavas and Osgood collaborated, including on US Senator Everett Dirksen's recording of Gallant Men, which won a Grammy Award for a spoken word performance.

His television credits are extensive, including scoring the series Hawaii Five-O, The Bionic Woman, Mrs. Columbo, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, as well as television movies, such as The Elevator (1974), Friendly Persuasion (1975), Murder at the World Series (1977), SST: Death Flight (1977), Superdome (1978), The Time Machine (1978) and the 1982 film The Executioner's Song, starring Tommy Lee Jones.

He lived in Beverly Hills, California and London, UK, with his wife, Bonetta Becker Cacavas.

They had three children, Lisa, John and Jennifer, and three grandchildren, James Stewart, Eric and Alexander Cacavas.