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Sep 30, 2014 - 5:50 AM
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OnyaBirri
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Yes. What I'm asking is that most of here are interested in "film music" to some degree or another. I'm just curious if, for most of us, it hit us over the head and we immediately wanted to know if we could buy an album of this stuff; or if it kind of subconsciously seduced us without our being aware.
For example, as a kid, I loved "Star Trek" and "Lost in Space," and I really wanted albums of those two, and none were available. But those were the exceptions; most of my conscious interest in music was more pop-related.
On the other hand, while my parents were watching TV and I was either doing homework or playing with toys, I was subconsciously drinking all this stuff in without realizing.
But then I will read here about someone as a kid seeing a movie, loving the music right away, and having to have the album immediately. I'm not sure this ever happened to me until I was already into "film music."
So, yeah, I'm just curious where people fall on the spectrum.
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Overt in my case. My first favorite film was Mary Poppins (at four years old for heaven's sake) and I listened to that and other Disney albums constantly. I think that's a way to train your mind to pay attention to the music.
Bond was next, and I remember my supreme disappointment when I got this album at 9 or 10 and knew immediately that this wasn't the music featured in Bond movies.
But then I was the kind of kid who knew the names of all the actors in all the tv shows on TV (I would read TV Guide religiously).
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For me, I think it was overt.
Believe it or not, the first film / TV music I fell in love with was actually "Star Trek: The Animated Series".
As a five year old, I loved that series and it was in the children's after-school cartoon slot. I didn't even know a live action series existed at that point.
But the first time I asked for a "record" (as we called them then) was when the James Bond films started showing on television. I just loved the music. It was "Big Bond Movie Themes".
Then "Star Wars" happened.
However, despite being wowed by the music in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Moonraker" and "The Black Hole" in 1979, I did not extend my record collection or think of myself as a film music fan until I saw "The Omen" on its British television premiere. (Strictly speaking, I was way too young to be watching it.)
Those opening bars made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I made it my mission to get that music and it was in that mission I discovered "Discount Soundtracks" (later: Movie Boulevard) and realized that all the music I'd already loved like the ORIGINAL James Bond film music, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Black Hole", etc, was just sitting there waiting for me to buy it.
That's my origins story.
Since all that is what I would call 'overt' film music, I guess we can say my initial lure was overt.
Cheers
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I think that, for me, it would have to be the subliminal effect.
From an early age the television was always on in our house - even when there was nothing to specifically watch my parents would switch on the TV regardless. So, there was always some noise going on in the background including film and TV music.
And shows that were constantly on would always have their music being played, so TV themes were played over and over again and some I would like and some I wouldn't like. I suppose it got to the stage that at some point I would look forward to my favourite themes being played on TV and I would make a point of listening to them.
And shows that were constantly being shown - Star Trek, Laurel and Hardy, Tom and Jerry, etc - where the same pieces of music were being played over and over again (maybe not in the case of Tom and Jerry), they would become more and more familiar and I would notice them appearing again and again.
It was only after a while that I would begin to appreciate that some of these themes/tunes could be bought on LPs - usually as theme compilation albums. But it was a further while before the soundtrack album was something I knew I could buy.
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Jun 28, 2021 - 6:40 AM
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OnyaBirri
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I think that, for me, it would have to be the subliminal effect.
From an early age the television was always on in our house - even when there was nothing to specifically watch my parents would switch on the TV regardless. So, there was always some noise going on in the background including film and TV music.
And shows that were constantly on would always have their music being played, so TV themes were played over and over again and some I would like and some I wouldn't like. I suppose it got to the stage that at some point I would look forward to my favourite themes being played on TV and I would make a point of listening to them.
And shows that were constantly being shown - Star Trek, Laurel and Hardy, Tom and Jerry, etc - where the same pieces of music were being played over and over again (maybe not in the case of Tom and Jerry), they would become more and more familiar and I would notice them appearing again and again.
It was only after a while that I would begin to appreciate that some of these themes/tunes could be bought on LPs - usually as theme compilation albums. But it was a further while before the soundtrack album was something I knew I could buy.
With "Star Trek," we didn't get an LP until the 1980s with "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
Of course, there were those Leonard Nimoy albums. 
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If I remember, at the time there was no thought of being able to hear the music from TV shows on album. Even if there were any LPs I am not sure my local stores would have stocked them.
It was only when, several years down the line when I was well into listening to film and TV music albums that I would have thought of what they chances were of hearing the music of TV shows on similar soundtrack albums.
It's funny that, even though I was a big fan of American TV shows from the seventies and eighties, even though I loved some of the themes I never paid much attention to the music in the shows themselves.
It's the nostalgic notions I have for these old shows that sparks an interest in the music released now. But the experiences of listening to these multi-CD releases of music from old TV shows now is one of a trip into the unknown.
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With "Star Trek," we didn't get an LP until the 1980s with "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
I can't recall the timings for these releases but I do remember being excited with the GNP Crescendo and Varese releases of early Star Trek scores. And they were mostly excellent bridges to the Star Trek box that eventually arrived.
Funny, but I was never really attracted by those solo albums from Nimoy, et al.
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If I remember, at the time there was no thought of being able to hear the music from TV shows on album. Even if there were any LPs I am not sure my local stores would have stocked them.
It was only when, several years down the line when I was well into listening to film and TV music albums that I would have thought of what they chances were of hearing the music of TV shows on similar soundtrack albums.
It's funny that, even though I was a big fan of American TV shows from the seventies and eighties, even though I loved some of the themes I never paid much attention to the music in the shows themselves.
It's the nostalgic notions I have for these old shows that sparks an interest in the music released now. But the experiences of listening to these multi-CD releases of music from old TV shows now is one of a trip into the unknown.
There were some TV shows that got a concurrent soundtrack LP release. Examples would include Peter Gunn and several of its knockoffs; The Man from UNCLE; and the aforementioned Dark Shadows.
For UK shows, we got The Saint, Danger Man AKA Secret Agent, and Space:1999.
I'm sure there were other examples, but it was certainly the exception and not the rule.
I think that, back then, I just never made the connection of there being soundtrack LPs being available for TV shows. Thinking about it now, I only ever remember having a single record of the Dr. Who theme and an LP of Mission: Impossible before CDs came along. I had plenty of LPs for movie soundtracks but hardly any vinyl of TV music. It does seem a bit weird.
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