the wisdom of the ancients
original music, publishing, production, and supervision
bespoke, one stop and easy-clear music, supervision & rights clearance for film, tv, advertising, games, podcasts and more
Music Creation
Music Publishing
Music Publishing
Original Music
From idea to completion
Music Publishing
Music Publishing
Music Publishing
Publishing and administration
Domestic & International
Production
Music Supervision & Clearances
Music Supervision & Clearances
Record, Mix & Master
Commercial NYC Studio
Music Supervision & Clearances
Music Supervision & Clearances
Music Supervision & Clearances
Film, TV, advertisements, video games, podcasts and more. Have a project you need help with?
Music For Film/TV/Ads/Games
A Little About Us
We are led by Richard Goldstein, a multi-award-winning veteran of the music industry. His long career has taken him from late 50's rockabilly and R&B in Memphis through the folk, blues, pop, rock, soul, funk and jazz of the 60s, 70s, 80’s and beyond. He has held a variety of executive and staff roles at Aldon Music, ASCAP, Columbia Records, EB Marx Music, Elektra Records, Satellite/Stax Records; and has done significant work as an independent.
Richard’s interest in music for film began while serving as orchestrator on film scores for Henry Mancini, Georges Delerue, Michel Legrand, and Serge Gainsbourg. In 1979/80 he served as Music Supervisor on the 1980 RSO Film "Times Square".
Richard's work has been covered by more than 350 individual artists. He has been the primary arranger on more than 800 commercial releases and produced more than 2000. He is associated with more than 100 top-100 singles, and more than 500 charted albums. While he continued to write and, occasionally produce music, Richard had been primarily retired between 1982 and 2022. In mid-2022 he came out of retirement to relaunch his dormant company oldguysrulemusic.
oldguysrulemusic's sync licensing operation represents a domestic and international network of publishers and labels including its own published, sub-published and administered publishing catalogs as well as substantial masters collections.... all told, as of January 2025, oldguysrulemusic represents roughly 100,000 tracks.
Our in-house and network of artists, writers, producers provides bespoke music for all types of projects, and we represent composers of original music for Film, TV, Advertising, Games and other commissions.
We provide Music Supervision and Music Clearance services to a small but growing list of discerning clients.
Finally, we continue to provide audio recording facilities and/or serve as producer for major label and indie label projects.
For more information, credits and work samples, or to book our studios, please use the contact us form and we'll get right back to you.
All One Stop or Easy Clear / E&O Insured
Extensive & Deep Catalog, Original Scores & Production
Major Sync Placements Over The Last Five Years
Current Monthly Music Sampler
2024 Recap Showreel
Music All I Need Artist Empire Circus Writers Al Doyle, Brian Ellis, Neil Eurelle, David Walsh - Available for licensing exclusively from oldguysrulemusic
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