Trivia

Former United States Senator from Nebraska Bob Kerrey officiated the wedding ceremony between Heather L. Crist and Andrew Paley on June 26, 2010.

Son of the late Cabot Barber Paley and the late Henry Paley of Half-Moon, New York. Son-in-law of Pam Crist and Ted Crist of Scott City, Kansas. Brother-in-law of Bob Kerrey, former United States Senator from Nebraska.

Los Angeles, California (June 2010)

Andy Paley was an American songwriter, record producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who formed the Paley Brothers, a 1970s power pop duo, with his brother Jonathan Paley.

He led the Andy Paley Orchestra, which provided the music for The Thrilling Adventure & Supernatural Suspense Hour, a theater group in Los Angeles that performs original stage productions in the style of old radio melodramas. Additionally he provided music for The Dana Gould Hour podcast.

He worked in film and television, composing scores and writing songs mostly for animated series, such as The Ren & Stimpy Show, Digimon, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Camp Lazlo. He and Tom Kenny - the voice of SpongeBob - co-wrote the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Album (2012).

Paley began performing in his early teens as a drummer and singer for local Albany-area bands before moving to Boston. He was a founding member and the drummer of the Boston, Massachusetts band, Catfish Black, which also included future Modern Lovers members Jerry Harrison and Ernie Brooks.

In 1988, Paley produced and co-wrote songs on Wilson's solo comeback album Brian Wilson, and continued to work with him on unreleased material in the 1990s.

Paley was a staff producer at Sire Records, producing albums for artists, such as Brian Wilson, Jonathan Richman, NRBQ, John Wesley Harding, the Greenberry Woods, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

In July 2024, Paley was diagnosed with throat cancer. Though he was successfully treated and had been cancer-free from September, it was found to have returned on November 7, after he was admitted to a hospital in Burlington, Vermont.