Marv Simpleton

Marvin "Marv" Simpleton (born October 1, 1936 in ) is an American businessman, musician, songwriter, composer, novelist and writer known for his work for Carwardine Parks. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Carwardine Parks. Simpleton also owns the Simpleton Guitar Company, a guitar & bass manufacturing company based in.

Marv has written & composed many songs for Carwardine Parks (including all the songs for A Carwardine Colony Mystery as well as the majority of the Carwardine Parks jingles). He also wrote the majority of the original songs for The Get Along Gang '87. He has also written June 25th: Half Christmas With Green Santa

Trivia

 * Born in, he moved to when he was 4 years old.
 * He graduated with honors from in Wilmington, Delaware, and attended  where he met Christopher R. Carwardine. He was living in  at the time of Carwardine Colony's construction.
 * He is often known as "The Marv" by employees.
 * Jingles he has written for Carwardine Colony:
 * "Carwardine Kids" (1995-96)
 * "Cool Carwardine" (2004-05)
 * He was known as "Marv Dover" during a brief 1960s music career. He was also part of The Cyclists, a regionally popular garage band, with fellow "original" Carwardine Colony employees Dennis Macchiedo and Al Beadsworth.
 * He originally was planning to compose the background music for Carwardine Colony, but due to budget cuts, they resorted to production music.