Personal life[edit]

Baskin was born to a Jewish family in Pasadena, California, to the Baskin-Robbins co-founder Burt Baskin and his wife Shirley Robbins (sister of co-founder Irv Robbins).^[2] His mother remarried to Isadore Familian.^[3] His sister Edie Baskin was a photographer for Saturday Night Live during the 1970s.^[4]


Baskin was in a relationship with Barbra Streisand from November 1983 to October 1987.

Career[edit]

Two years after Nashville was released, Baskin was the musical guest on the March 12, 1977, episode during the second season of Saturday Night Live with host Sissy Spacek.


In 1985, Baskin produced and arranged tracks on Barbra Streisand's The Broadway Album.^[5] Baskin also wrote music for a film based on that music, Welcome to L.A., composed the score for Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, James at 16 and UFOria.^[6] He was musical director and produced soundtracks for other films such as Honeysuckle Rose, starring Willie Nelson, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, directed by Colin Higgins.