Composer, arranger and keyboardist Paul Hoffert was born in Brooklyn in 1943. After moving to Canada in 1956 (and becoming a citizen in 1961) he studied music with Gordon Delamont and Hagood Hardy, and began playing piano and vibraphone in jazz clubs. During the mid-'60s he was the musical director of CBC-TV's Time Of Your Life, and in '68 he co-founded the rock band Lighthouse. After that group broke up, he moved to Toronto and started a second career as an educator, composer, arranger and record producer. Over the years he worked extensively in film, radio and television, and was also a new media pioneer who did research on MP3 audio compression, digital video phones, networked distribution of CD-ROMs and online content distribution. In 2004 he was awarded The Order of Canada for his contributions to Canadian music. One of the films he scored was Outrageous!, a low-budget 1977 Canadian movie about a schizophrenic girl and a gay hairdresser. The NY Times didn't like it, but Hoffert won a Canadian Film Award for his work on the film.

Outrageous! was produced by Hoffert and recorded at Thunder Sound by engineer Phil Sheridan, with re-recording and mixing done at Toronto Sound Studios by engineers Terry Brown and Ken Morris. "Lisa's Theme/It Ain't Easy" is a smooth, '70s-style disco-tinged theme, complete with brass and strings, while "Robin's Party Theme" is a more offbeat, jazzy number that moves through a few distinct moods and motifs.

Lisa's Theme/It Ain't Easy
Robin's Party Theme