THEY CAME FROM THE SCORING STAGE, PART ONE
A Chronology of Music For Aliens on Earth
By Scott Bettencourt
(Titles in quotation marks are television programs)
1951
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Bernard Herrmann
Score CD released by Fox
THE MAN FROM PLANET X - Charles Koff
THE THING - Dimitri Tiomkin
10:38 rerecorded on the RCA CD The Spectacular World of Classic
Film Scores
1952
"THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN"
Varese Sarabande released a CD compilation of library music used for
the series
1953
INVADERS FROM MARS - Raoul Kraushaar
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE - Henry Mancini, Herman Stein, Irving Gertz
28:10 rerecorded on the Monstrous Movie Music CD Monstrous Movie
Music
PHANTOM FROM SPACE - William Lava
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - Leith Stevens
10:35 recorded on the Silva CD Alien Invasion: Space and Beyond
2
1954
KILLERS FROM SPACE - Manuel Compinsky
THIS ISLAND EARTH - Herman Stein
4:01 rerecorded on the Varese CD Themes From Classic Science-Fiction,
Fantasy and Horror Films
1956
THE CREEPING UNKNOWN - James Bernard
3:57 rerecorded on the Silva CD The Devil Rides Out: Film Music
of James Bernard
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS - Mischa Bakaleinikoff
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - Carmen Dragon
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD - Ronald Stein
Score available on a Percepto CD, paired with Invasion of the Saucer
Men
PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
Complete library score tracks used in the film available on Retrosonic
1957
THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS - Walter Greene
ENEMY FROM SPACE - James Bernard
5:07 rerecorded on the Silva CD The Devil Rides Out: Film Music
of James Bernard
INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN - Ronald Stein
Score available on a Percepto CD, paired with It Conquered the World
KRONOS - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter
Score LP released by Starlog; unavailable on CD
THE MONOLITH MONSTERS - Irving Gertz
1:03 rerecorded on the Monstrous Movie Music CD More Monstrous Movie
Music
NOT OF THIS EARTH - Ronald Stein
10:05 available on the Varese CD Not of This Earth: Film Music of
Ronald Stein
20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH - Mischa Bakaleinikoff
1958
ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN - Ronald Stein
11:38 on the Varese CD Not of This Earth: Film Music of Ronald Stein
THE BLOB - Ralph Carmichael
THE CRAWLING EYE - Stanley Black
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE - Buxton Orr
4:24 rerecorded on the Silva CD Horror!
NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST - Alexander Laszlo
THE SPACE CHILDREN - Nathan Van Cleave
1959
THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE - Alexander Laszlo
INVISIBLE INVADERS - Paul Dunlap
THE MYSTERIANS - Akira Ifukube
Score album on the Japanese import Monster Music label
TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE - Tom Graeff
1960
THE CAPE CANAVERAL MONSTERS - Guenther Kauer
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED - Ron Goodwin
1962
THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH - Richard La Salle
1963
CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED - Ron Goodwin
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS - Ron Goodwin
"MY FAVORITE MARTIAN" - Jack Chertok
Theme available on the TVT CD TV's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
"THE OUTER LIMITS"
The following episodes featured aliens on Earth:
THE BELLERO SHIELD - Dominic Frontiere
THE CHILDREN OF SPIDER COUNTY - Dominic Frontiere
COLD HANDS, WARM HEART - Harry Lubin
CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT - Dominic Frontiere
THE CORPUS EARTHLING - Dominic Frontiere
COUNTERWEIGHT - Harry Lubin
THE CRY OF SILENCE - Harry Lubin
DON'T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY - Dominic Frontiere
THE GALAXY BEING - Dominic Frontiere
THE INHERITORS - Harry Lubin
THE INVISIBLES - Dominic Frontiere
KEEPER OF THE PURPLE TWILIGHT - Harry Lubin
THE MICE - Dominic Frontiere
O.B.I.T. - Dominic Frontiere
THE PRODUCTION AND DECAY OF STRANGE PARTICLES - Dominic Frontiere
THE SPECIAL ONE - Dominic Frontiere
SPECIMEN: UNKNOWN - Dominic Frontiere
THE ZANTI MISFITS - Dominic Frontiere
1964
THE CREEPING TERROR - Frederick Kopp
DAGORA THE SPACE MONSTER - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Monster Music label
1965
GHIDRAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
MONSTER ZERO - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
NIGHT CALLER FROM OUTER SPACE - Johnny Gregory
1966
DESTINATION INNER SPACE - Paul Dunlap
1967
FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH - Tristram Cary
Score available on the GDI CD The Quatermass Film Music Collection
"THE INVADERS" - Dominic Frontiere
Theme featured on the TVT CD TV's Greatest Hits vol. 5
ISLAND OF THE BURNING DAMNED - Malcolm Lockyer
THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE - James Stevens
1968
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
DESTROY ALL PLANETS - Kenjiro Hirose
8:06 featured on the Japanese import CD The History of Gamera,
released by Apollon
1970
GAMERA VS. MONSTER X - Shunsuke Kikuchi
3:26 featured on the Japanese import CD The History of Gamera,
released by Apollon
"THE LOVE WAR" - Dominic Frontiere
"NIGHT SLAVES" - Bernardo Segall
'UFO" - Barry Gray
Theme available on the Silva CD FAB: Music From the TV Shows by
Barry Gray
1971
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN - Gil Melle
Score LP released by Kapp on a hexagon shaped album; unavailable on
CD
GAMERA VS. ZIGRA - Shunsuke Kikuchi
3:19 featured on the Japanese import CD The History of Gamera,
released by Apollon
YOG--MONSTER FROM SPACE - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Monster Music label
1972
BEWARE! THE BLOB - Mort Garson
GODZILLA VS. GIGAN - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
HORROR EXPRESS - John Cacavas
17:43 of the score featured on the Citadel CD Cry of the Banshee
1974
CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? - Peter Thomas
Released on a German Polydor CD as Erinnerungen An Die Zukunft
GODZILLA VS. MECHA GODZILLA - Masaru Satoh
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
"KILLDOZER" - Gil Melle
"THE STRANGER WITHIN" - Charles Fox
1975
THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION - Bill Rebane
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW - Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley
Song CD (it is, after all, a musical) available on Rhino
1976
GOD TOLD ME TO - Frank Cordell
Phoenix Records released a suite from the score on LP, paired with
music from Ring of Bright Water; the score has not been released
on CD
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - John Phillips
1977
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND - John Williams
Expanded score on Arista
END OF THE WORLD - Andrew Belling
"THE MAN WITH THE POWER" - Patrick Williams
REVENGE OF MECHA-GODZILLA - Akira Ifukube
Score CD released on the Japanese import Futureland label
STARSHIP INVASIONS - Gil Melle
1978
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - Denny Zeitlin
Score LP released by United Artists; 4:13 available on the Sonic Images
CD Watch the Skies
LASERBLAST - Richard Band, Joel Goldsmith
"MORK AND MINDY" - Perry Botkin Jr.
Theme available on the TVT CD TV's Greatest Hits vol. 6
"QUATERMASS" - Nic Rowley, Marc Wilkinson
SUPERMAN - John Williams
Complete 2-disc score album on Warner Archives/Rhino
1979
"BATTLE OF THE PLANETS" - Hoyt Curtin
Score album on Super Tracks
THE DARK - Roger Kellaway
5:44 of the score was recorded in a jazz rendition on the Varese CD
Cool & Classic: Great Film Themes of the 70s
PHANTASM - Fred Myrow, Malcolm Seagrave
Score released on CD by Silva, paired with Phantasm II
THE VISITOR - Franco Micalizzi
Score released on CD by RCA Italy , paired with Etoile
1980
CONTAMINATION - Goblin
Score CD released by the Japanese SLC label
THE DAY TIME ENDED - Richard Band
Score LP released by Varese Sarabande; 4:20 released on the Kem-Disc
CD Music From The Galaxies
THE RETURN - Dan Wyman
WITHOUT WARNING - Dan Wyman
1981
"THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS" - Christopher Gunning
HEAVY METAL - Elmer Bernstein
The score was released on LP in 1981 but has yet to see a CD release;
5:38 of the score was rerecorded for the Silva CD Space and Beyond,
while 4:56 was conducted by Bernstein himself for his Denon CD, Bernstein
by Bernstein.
"THE INTRUDER WITHIN" - Gil Melle
SUPERMAN II - Ken Thorne, John Williams
The score was released on a Warners CD in Japan, paired with songs
and score selections from Superman III
1982
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL - John Williams
Expanded score CD released by MCA
"MYSTERIOUS TWO" - Joe Renzetti
PARASITE - Richard Band
THE THING - Ennio Morricone
Score CD released by Varese Sarabande
TIME WALKER - Richard Band
1983
LIQUID SKY - Slava Tuskerman, Brenda I. Hutchison, Clive Smith
Score CD released by Varese Sarabande
STRANGE INVADERS - John Addison
8:27 rerecorded for the Silva CD Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier
SUPERMAN III - Ken Thorne, John Williams
19:59 of the score released on a Japanese import Warners CD, paired
with Superman II
"V" - Joe Harnell
Score CD released as a composer promo
WAVELENGTH - Tangerine Dream
Score CD on Varese Sarabande
XTRO - Harry Bromley Davenport
Score released on LP, unavailable on CD
1984
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI - Michael Boddicker
The GNP Crescendo CD Greatest Sci-Fi Hits vol. 4 featured a
synth rerecording of 3:29 of the score
THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET - Mason Daring
Soundtrack released on CD by Daring Records
THE LAST STARFIGHTER - Craig Safan
Score CD released by Intrada
MEATBALLS PART II - Ken Harrison
STARMAN - Jack Nitzsche
Score CD released by Varese Sarabande
SUPERGIRL - Jerry Goldsmith
Expanded score CD released by Silva
"V - THE FINAL BATTLE" - Dennis McCarthy
Score CD released as a composer promo
"V - THE SERIES" - Dennis McCarthy
A composer promo featured scores from the following episodes:
THE CONVERSION
THE DECEPTION
DREADNOUGHT
LIBERATION DAY
REFLECTION IN TERROR
THE SANCTION
VISITOR'S CHOICE
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