Music and Songwriting
Olson is a twice-Emmy-nominated songwriter, and Annie-nominated songwriter. He has appeared as a singer on several television shows including SpongeBob SquarePants and Phineas and Ferb. His satirical songs were regularly featured on many television series, including London Underground (Comedy Central), Rocko's Modern Life (Nickelodeon), "Get That Puss Off Your Face" (HBO), Camp Lazlo (CN), Penn and Teller's Sin City Spectacular (FX) and The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (ABC). Olson has written or co-written roughly two hundred songs for Phineas and Ferb (Disney). Olson and Bobcat Goldthwait co-wrote the theme song for "Don't Watch This Show" (Cinemax).
At Disney Studios in 2011, with songwriting partners Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh, Olson co-wrote two songs with Bobby Lopez, co-writer of Broadway's The Book of Mormon.
Olson first collaborated with song-writer Jeff Root on four albums in the mid-70's, including "Idiot's Delight" (1975) praised by Beatles producer George Martin as "the best songs on a home-recorded disc I have ever heard."
Music Awards: 2010 Emmy Nomination for Songwriting, 2009 Emmy Nomination for Primetime Songwriting, 1997 Annie Award Nomination for Songwriting in an Animated Series.
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