Chris Ledesma

Chris Ledesma

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Music editor Birth date: January 28, 1958 Death date: December 16, 2022 (aged 64) Status: Deceased Number of episodes: 735 Seasons active: Season 1 - 34 First short: Playdate with Destiny Most recent short: When Billie Met Lisa First episode: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" Most recent episode: "Step Brother from the Same Planet" First album: Songs in the Key of Springfield Latest album: The Simpsons: Testify

Christopher Frederick "Chris" Ledesma (January 28, 1958 – December 16, 2022) was an American music editor. He served as the music editor from season 1 to 33 of The Simpsons, being replaced by Jake Schaefer since season 34 after Ledesma left the show due to health issues and subsequently his death. He had a blog, Simpsons Music 500.

He was nominated for the Golden Reel Award for the season 10 episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken".

At The Simpsons Take the Bowl, he conducted a part of the concert devoted to Alf Clausen and his contributions to The Simpsons.

Credits

Music editor

Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" Episode – "Bart the Genius" Episode – "Homer's Odyssey" Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home" Episode – "Bart the General" Episode – "Moaning Lisa" Episode – "The Call of the Simpsons" Episode – "The Telltale Head" Episode – "Life on the Fast Lane" Episode – "Homer's Night Out" Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath" Episode – "Krusty Gets Busted" Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening" Episode – "Bart Gets an "F"" Episode – "Simpson and Delilah" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" Episode – "Dancin' Homer" Episode – "Dead Putting Society" Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" Episode – "Bart the Daredevil" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" Episode – "The Way We Was" Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" Episode – "Principal Charming" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" Episode – "Old Money" Episode – "Brush with Greatness" Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book" Episode – "Blood Feud" Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" Episode – "When Flanders Failed" Episode – "Bart the Murderer" Episode – "Homer Defined" Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" Episode – "Lisa's Pony" Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder" Episode – "Flaming Moe's" Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" Episode – "I Married Marge" Episode – "Radio Bart" Episode – "Lisa the Greek" Episode – "Homer Alone" Episode – "Bart the Lover" Episode – "Homer at the Bat" Episode – "Separate Vocations" Episode – "Dog of Death" Episode – "Colonel Homer" Episode – "Black Widower" Episode – "The Otto Show" Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" Episode – "Kamp Krusty" Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge" Episode – "Homer the Heretic" Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" Episode – "Marge Gets a Job" Episode – "New Kid on the Block" Episode – "Mr. Plow" Episode – "Lisa's First Word" Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass" Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" Episode – "Selma's Choice" Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "I Love Lisa" Episode – "Duffless" Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "The Front" Episode – "Whacking Day" Episode – "Marge in Chains" Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled" Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Episode – "Cape Feare" Episode – "Homer Goes to College" Episode – "Rosebud" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" Episode – "Marge on the Lam" Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer" Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" Episode – "Homer the Vigilante" Episode – "Bart Gets Famous" Episode – "Homer and Apu" Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Episode – "Deep Space Homer" Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders" Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant" Episode – "Burns' Heir" Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover" Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" Episode – "Bart of Darkness" Episode – "Lisa's Rival" Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land" Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Lurking Ledesma) Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend" Episode – "Lisa on Ice" Episode – "Homer Badman" Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" Episode – "Fear of Flying" Episode – "Homer the Great" Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" Episode – "Bart's Comet" Episode – "Homie the Clown" Episode – "Bart vs. Australia" Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" Episode – "A Star Is Burns" Episode – "Lisa's Wedding" Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" Episode – "The PTA Disbands" Episode – "'Round Springfield" Episode – "The Springfield Connection" Episode – "Lemon of Troy" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" Episode – "Radioactive Man" Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (as Lugubrious Ledesma) Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Mother Simpson" Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" Episode – "Team Homer" Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors" Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Episode – "Bart the Fink" Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast" Episode – "Homer the Smithers" Episode – "The Day the Violence Died" Episode – "A Fish Called Selma" Episode – "Bart on the Road" Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield" Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" Episode – "Homerpalooza" Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Lobotomized Ledesma) Episode – "You Only Move Twice" Episode – "The Homer They Fall" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "Bart After Dark" Episode – "A Milhouse Divided" Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" Episode – "The Springfield Files" Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" Episode – "Mountain of Madness" Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" Episode – "Homer's Phobia" Episode – "Brother from Another Series" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Episode – "Grade School Confidential" Episode – "The Canine Mutiny" Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" Episode – "In Marge We Trust" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper" Episode – "Lisa's Sax" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Leperous Ledesma) Episode – "The Cartridge Family" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "Das Bus" Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "Simpson Tide" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "Trash of the Titans" Episode – "King of the Hill" Episode – "Lost Our Lisa" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" Episode – "Lard of the Dance" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "Bart the Mother" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Me Cried Slash) Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Mayored to the Mob" Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" Episode – "Homer to the Max" Episode – "I'm with Cupid" Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive" Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" Episode – "Mom and Pop Art" Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Ludi-Chris) Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" Episode – "Grift of the Magi" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Faith Off" Episode – "The Mansion Family" Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "Pygmoelian" Episode – "Bart to the Future" Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Made Less Rich) Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "The Great Money Caper" Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" Episode – "HOMЯ" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "Trilogy of Error" Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Homer the Moe" Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Brawl in the Family" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" Episode – "The Frying Game" Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "Helter Shelter" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "Special Edna" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "Pray Anything" Episode – "Barting Over" Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" Episode – "C.E. D'oh" Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly" Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" Episode – "The Bart of War" Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (as Stillborn Ready Ledesma) Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" Episode – "Today I Am a Clown" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" Episode – "Margical History Tour" Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Episode – "Smart and Smarter" Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day" Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can" Episode – "Simple Simpson" Episode – "The Way We Weren't" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Fraudcast News" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" (as Lethal Ledesma) Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" Episode – "Midnight Rx" Episode – "Mommie Beerest" Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" Episode – "Pranksta Rap" Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" Episode – "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" Episode – "Goo Goo Gai Pan" Episode – "Mobile Homer" Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch" Episode – "Future-Drama" Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "A Star Is Torn" Episode – "Thank God It's Doomsday" Episode – "Home Away from Homer" Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" (as I ♥ Nifnbug) Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Episode – "The Italian Bob" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "My Fair Laddy" Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies" Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie" Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Episode – "Regarding Margie" Episode – "The Monkey Suit" Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (as He Dries Clam) Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Yokel Chords" Episode – "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh" Episode – "Homerazzi" Episode – "Marge Gamer" Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" Episode – "Crook and Ladder" Episode – "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!" Episode – "24 Minutes" Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "The Homer of Seville" Episode – "Midnight Towboy" Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as Crashed Slime) Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" Episode – "Husbands and Knives" Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "The Debarted" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Any Given Sundance" Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" Episode – "All About Lisa" Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Shreds Malice) Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks" Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" Episode – "Lisa the Drama Queen" Episode – "Take My Life, Please" Episode – "How the Test Was Won" Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe" Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly" Episode – "Father Knows Worst" Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Coming to Homerica" Episode – "Homer the Whopper" Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z"" Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as Sliced Masher) Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" Episode – "Pranks and Greens" Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "American History X-cellent" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (as I Shred Camels) Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (as @mxedtr) Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Moonshine River" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (as Simpsons Music 500) Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "To Cur, with Love" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "Homerland" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as @mxedtr) Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The Winter of His Content" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Days of Future Future" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "Brick Like Me" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (as Slashed Crime) Episode – "Opposites A-Frack" Episode – "Simpsorama" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "Every Man's Dream" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (as Chris Ledesma in D-Minor) Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "Friends and Family" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (as Chris "All 600" Ledesma) Episode – "Trust but Clarify" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "Fatzcarraldo" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "A Father's Watch" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" (as Mired Clashes) Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" Episode – "King Leer" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" (as Dr. Schemes Ails) Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-Hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" (as Shamed Slicer) Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Hail to the Teeth" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Episode – "The Way of the Dog" Episode – "Undercover Burns" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (as Chris Half-My-Life Ledesma) Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "Three Dreams Denied" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Manger Things" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Episode – "The Last Barfighter" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "Bart's in Jail!" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (as Dismal Cheers) Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "Lisa's Belly" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 1)" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers" Episode – "A Made Maggie" Episode – "The Longest Marge" Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid" Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Bart the Cool Kid" Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar" Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" Episode – "Marge the Meanie" Episode – "Meat Is Murder" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (as Chris "One Last Time" Ledesma) Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Special – Playdate with Destiny Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki Special – Plusaversary Special – When Billie Met Lisa

Music by

• Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" ("Nobody Knows Hans Moleman")

In loving memory of

• Episode – "My Life as a Vlog"

Associate producer & music editor

• Album – Songs in the Key of Springfield
• Album – Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons

Associate producer & supervising music editor

• Album – The Simpsons: Testify

External links

• Chris Ledesma at the Internet Movie Database
• Simpsons Music 500 - Chris Ledesma's blog

Music crew

Composers Ryeland Allison • Ryan Baer • Lorne Balfe • Marc Baril • Jim Beanz • Belle and Sebastian • Michele Bertoldi • Bleeding Fingers Music • Sylvain Chomet • Alf Clausen • Scott Clausen • Jemaine Clement • Ray Colcord • The Decemberists • Jack Dolgen • James Dooley • Clay Duncan • Ryan Elder • Danny Elfman • Juan Carlos Enriquez • Mark Ganus • Michael Giacchino • Mick Giacchino • Richard Gibbs • Norio Hanzawa • James Hebdon • Henry Jackman • Brian Langsbard • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Michael A. Levine • Alex Mauer • Maureen McElheron • Bret McKenzie • Mark Mothersbaugh • John E. Nordstrom • Eric Nunamaker • Laurence O'Keefe • Atli Örvarsson • Gregory Prechel • Kira Randolph • Arthur B. Rubinstein • Allen Simpson • Stephen Sondheim • Jon Spurney • Matthew Sweet • Asa Taccone • Kara Talve • Kingsley Thurber • Jeffrey Townsend • Christopher Tyng • Patrick Williams • Davin Wood • Hans Zimmer Music editors Bob Beecher • Stan Jones • Chris Ledesma • Daniel Pinder • Ryan Rubin • Jake Schaefer • Erich Stratmann • Derek Syverud • Tom Trafalski Music engineers Bryant Arnett • Thomas Broderick • Mark Chalecki • Richard Cottrell • Guy DeFazio • Robert Gatley • Paul Grupp • Mick Guzauski • Richard Joseph • Jesse Kanner • Acar S. Key • Judy Kirschner • Tod Lemkuhl • Bryan Loren • Scott Mabuchi • Tony Maserati • John Moyer • Ernie Rose • Pete Oso Snell • Geoff Sykes • Greg Vines • Matt Ward Music producers Bob Beecher • John Boylan • James L. Brooks • George Clinton • Robert Clivillés • David Cole • Oliver Davis • David Dorn • Derek Dressler • Russell Emanuel • Robert L. Emmer • Alan Friedman • Greg Haver • DJ Jazzy Jeff • Steve Kofsky • Chris Ledesma • Bryan Loren • Mickey Petralia • Steven Schnur • Gary Stewart • Jai Winding • Hans Zimmer Orchestrators Steve Bartek • Alf Clausen • Scott Clausen • Tim Davies • Brad Dechter • Elizabeth Finch • Bruce Fowler • Walt Fowler • Dell Hake • Andrew Kinney • Ken Kugler • Suzette Moriarty • Dana Niu • Gregory Prechel • Larry Rench • Brandon Roberts • Geoff Stradling • Marcus Trumpp Singers and vocalists Lisa Angelle • Kaylee Arellano • Baha Men • George Balmeseda • Tony Battaglia • Peter Beckett • Gerry Beckley • Josh Bedlion • Karen Bernod • Ben Bledsoe • Eric Bradley • Alexandra Brown • Jackson Browne • Rosemary Butler • Amick Byram • David Byrne • Marie Cain • James Campbell • Mark Campbell • Elin Carlson • Carmen Carter • Dawn Halloran Charouhas • Emily Charouhas • Patty Chayefsky • Alvin Chea • Alf Clausen • John Coggins • Deborah Cooper • Randy Crenshaw • J.C. Crowley • Michael Dees • Angel DeLeon • Marwenna Diame • Chelsea Di Blasi • Denise Donatelli • George Economou • Allie Feder • Roger Freeland • James Gilstrap • Andrew Gold • Will Goldman • Shelby Grimm • Nicholas Harper • Walt Harrah • James Hayden • Todd Honeycutt • Michael "J" Horn • Clydene Jackson • David Johansen • Dan Jordan • Bob Joyce • Eloise Kelsey • Kesha • Mary Kiani • Gladys Knight • Darlene Koldenhoven • Edie Lehmann-Boddicker • Kipp Lennon • Rick Logan • Hazel Lopez • Bryan Loren • Trey Lorenz • Ricky Lucchese • Aron Michael Manderosian • Robert J. Manderosian • Sara Mann • Ian Mayorga • Nick McKaig • Donna Medine • Gene Merlino • Cindy Mizelle • Ted Moock • Gene Morford • D. K. Okoh • Caitlin Parrott • P-Funk All-Stars • Aaron Page • Caitlin Parrott • Darryl Phinnessee • Michele Pillar • Duran Ramos • Jasper Randall • John Reid • Boots Riley • Linda Ronstadt • Jessica Rotter • Laurie Rox • Timothy B. Schmit • Fletcher Sheridan • Jill Sobule • Stefani Spruill • Caitlin Stafford • Bart Stevens • Sally Stevens • Susie Stevens-Logan • Todd Strange • Carole Sylvan • Matthew Sweet • Marc Terenzi • Chris Thompson • Carmen Twillie • Twinkle • Richard Voltorp • Julia Waters • Maxine Waters • Oren Waters • Suzanne Waters • Dick Wells • John West • Greg Whipple • Ann White • Gerald White • Jerry Whitman • B. David Whitworth • Ann Wilson • Nancy Wilson • Stevie Wonder Song writers Lisa Angelle • Burt Bacharach • Tony Battaglia • Gerry Beckley • Herman Beeftink • William Bell • Chuck Berry • John Boylan • James L. Brooks • James Campbell • George Clinton • Robert Clivillés • David Cole • Angel DeLeon • Zooey Deschanel • Jack Dolgen • George Economou • Alan Friedman • Ricky Gervais • Shelby Grimm • Matt Groening • Bob Harris • Greg Haver • Tim Heidecker • Arthur Herzog, Jr. • Billie Holiday • Robert Israel • Al Jean • DJ Jazzy Jeff • Robert Johnson • Booker T. Jones • Dan Jordan • Louis Kabbabie • Jay Kogen • Adam I. Lapidus • Annie Lennox • Bobby Lopez • Bryan Loren • Jeff Martin • Mike McKnight • Willie Nelson • Randy Newman • Laurence O'Keefe • Curt Ousley • Mickey Petralia • Cole Porter • Rex Promise • Duran Ramos • Mike Reiss • Boots Riley • Sam Simon • Allen Simpson • Jill Sobule • Dave Stewart • Richard Strauss • Matthew Sweet • Eric Wareheim • Paul Webster • Jai Winding • Wallace Wolodarsky Other Murray Adler • Shahid "Quality Notch" Ahmad • Slamm Andrews • Richard Bishop • Claudius Bruese • Cary Butler • John Chamberlin • John Witt Chapman • Chuck Choi • Al Clay • Victor Cooke • Sandy De Crescent • Carol Farhat • Nick Glennie-Smith • Kevin Globerman • Leslie Ann Jones • Juliani Music • Chris King • Paul Klingberg • Mike Knobloch • Robert Kraft • Julie Last • Dan Light • Mike Long • Matthew Margeson • George Massenburg • Alan Meyerson • Michael John Mollo • Rebecca Morellato • Blake Neely • Christina Paakkari • Francesco Perlangeli • Jacquie Perryman • Rick Riccio • Peter Rotter • Mike Rubin • Czarina Russell • Jacob Shea • Scott Michael Smith • Sonic Fuel Studios • Noah Sorota • Brian Sperber • Tom Steel • Armin Steiner • Patricia Sullivan • Brett Swain • Dolph Taylor • Mark Wherry • Booker White • Andrew Zack

The Simpsons Take the Bowl performers
Hank Azaria • Nancy Cartwright • Beverly D'Angelo • Matt Groening • Chris Ledesma • Kipp Lennon • Jon Lovitz • Conan O'Brien • Yeardley Smith • "Weird Al" Yankovic • Hans Zimmer

Deceased crew and guest stars

Cast Christopher Collins • Doris Grau • Phil Hartman • Christian Coffinet • Marcia Wallace • Russi Taylor Crew Michael O'Connor • Michael P. Schoenbrun • Robert Glass • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Thomas Chastain • Jackie Banks • Constantin Mustatea • Tom Coppola • Ed DeMattia • Andy Houts • Phyllis Craig • Sunni Walton • Art Seidel‎ • Lee Mishkin • Kent Holaday • Ted Bemiller • Barrington T. Bunce • James O'Brien • Daria Paris • Ron Scalera • Kevyn L. Wallace • Maxine Markota • Don Payne • Richard Lorenzana • Betty Chaplin • Steve Viksten • Don Vanderbeek • Paul Gruwell • Harold M. Schulweis • Chris Moeller • Danny Taverna • Sam Simon • Cliff Voorhees • Richard Manginsay • Ray Colcord • Gary Hoffman • Julia Kalantarova • Kevin Curran • Sooan Kim • Merle Welton • Rochelle Linder • Arthur B. Rubinstein • Jerry Richardson • Lolee Aries • Patrick Williams • Domingo Rivera • Trista H. Navarro • Chris Reccardi • Dennis Snee • Ernesto Elicanal • J. Michael Mendel • Marsha Kramer • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Cullen Blaine • Tuck Tucker • Alan Decker • Brenda Banks • Dale Baer • David Richardson • Marc Wilmore • Rick Bowman • Edwin E. Aguilar • Marko Barrows • Frank Mula • Mike Camarillo • David Schwartz • Ian Wilcox • Trixie Flynn • Terry Harrington • Ron Zimmerman • Laurie Hanson • Jeff Howard • Ralph Eggleston • Jennifer Dolce • Chris Ledesma • Susan Burke • Anne Luiting • Bike Kinzle • Craig Armstrong • Istvan Majoros • John Bush • Sue Bielenberg • Brian McConnachie • Reid Harrison Comic crew Ed Roth • Dan DeCarlo • Al Williamson • Gene Colan • Earl Kress • John Severin • George Gladir • Stan Goldberg • Murphy Anderson • Lemmy • Gary Glasberg • Dan Spiegle • Bernie Wrightson • Carolyn Kelly • Len Wein • Batton Lash • Dan Nakrosis • Oscar González Loyo • Chris Yambar • Ramona Fradon Video game crew Tom D. Heidt • Bill Williams • W. Marshall Rogers Album crew Billie Holiday • Curt Ousley • Arthur Herzog, Jr. • David Cole • Floyd Cramer • Lew McCreary • David Frisina • Harold Dicterow • Terry Harrington • Myra Kestenbaum • Mike Rubin • Jon Clarke • Gene Morford • Michael Botts • John Thomas Johnson • Dorothy Wade • Richard Joseph • Larry Corbett • Don Palmer • Ben Keith • Ronni Chasen • Harris Goldman • Armen Garabedian • Israel Baker • Andrew Gold • Warren Luening • Bernard Kundell • B. B. King • Jimmy Levine • Chuck Berry • Isabelle Daskoff • Dell Hake • Roger Neumann • Gary Stewart • Dr. John • Tommy Morgan • Vincent DeRosa • Michael Lang Guest stars Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gene Lockhart • John F. Kennedy • Rex Harrison • Richard Nixon • John Megna • Audrey Meadows • George Fenneman • Linda McCartney • Anthony Newley‎‎ • Jim Varney • Tito Puente • Steve Allen • Joe C. • Werner Klemperer • Joey Ramone • Jack Lemmon • George Harrison • Ron Taylor • Lawrence Tierney • Stephen Jay Gould • John Entwistle • Rod Steiger • Chick Hearn • Johnny Unitas • Gregory Peck • Barry White • Bob Hope • Johnny Cash • George Plimpton • Paul Winfield • Isabel Sanford • Johnny Ramone • Rodney Dangerfield • Johnny Carson • Johnnie Cochran • Henry Corden • Anne Bancroft • Bob Denver • Dennis Weaver • James Brown • Tom Poston • Robert Goulet • George Carlin • Paul Newman • Eartha Kitt • Patrick McGoohan • John Updike • Ed McMahon • Michael Jackson • Gary Coleman • Robert Schimmel • Jack LaLanne • Elizabeth Taylor • Clarence Clemons • Charles Napier • Joe Frazier • Harry Morgan • Tom Ardolino • Dick Tufeld • Dick Clark • Ernest Borgnine • Gore Vidal • Marvin Hamlisch • Neil Armstrong • Larry Hagman • Huell Howser • Pat Summerall • Joyce Brothers • Cory Monteith • Allen Lanier • Tom Clancy • Mickey Rooney • Don Pardo • Joan Rivers • Jan Hooks • Leonard Nimoy • Alex Rocco • Merl Reagle • Daryl Coley • Garry Marshall • Fyvush Finkel • Janet Reno • Adam West • Jack Ong • Martin Landau • June Foray • Jerry Lewis • Hugh Hefner • Tom Petty • Ray Thomas • John Mahoney • Stephen Hawking • R. Lee Ermey • Carl Kasell • Tom Wolfe • Anthony Bourdain • Harlan Ellison • Stan Lee • Ricky Jay • Penny Marshall • Luke Perry • Tim Conway • Valerie Harper • Robert Forster • Robert Evans • Jack Sheldon • John Baldessari • Jack Burns • Kirk Douglas • James Lipton • Max von Sydow • Little Richard • Fred Willard • Regis Philbin • Alex Trebek • David Lander • Larry King • Cloris Leachman • George Segal • Olympia Dukakis • Jackie Mason • Ed Asner • Graeme Edge • Stephen Sondheim • John Madden • Betty White • Peter Bogdanovich • Maggy Reno Hurchalla • Ray Liotta • James Caan • Nichelle Nichols • David Crosby • Sal Bando • Bill Saluga • Jerry Springer • Treat Williams • Tony Bennett • William Friedkin • Suzanne Somers • Matthew Perry • Frances Sternhagen • Norman Lear • Tom Smothers • Richard Lewis • Donald Sutherland • Martin Mull • Bob Newhart • James Earl Jones • Elwood Edwards Other Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle • James Sanderson • Sarah Adams • Edgar Allan Poe • Lowell Mason • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Richard Strauss • Cole Porter • Paul Webster • Bob Harris • Elsie Castellaneta • Dora K. Warren • Alan Gordon • Daryl Gates • Robert Reno • Hal David • Rusty Nails • Csaba Varga • Louis Castellaneta • András Erkel • Herb Trimpe • David Kavner • George H. W. Bush • Double K • Dusty Hill • David Davis • Burt Bacharach • Morgan Spurlock • Ruth Westheimer