Over in the white-hot-with-young-people-posting-enthusiastically "Mannix on DVD" thread, we somehow started discussing Barnaby Jones and I posted the following:
The excellent Goldsmith score is like a cross between "The Last Run" and "Police Story" with numerous brilliant arrangements of the Barnaby Jones theme. There's a great, extended cue that kicks in at around 2:40 in the series premiere, "Requiem for a Son."
I must admit I couldn't be bothered to watch the whole thing (thanks anyway zooba for the link), but I did look at the first three minutes and thought that it was terrific. Such a fertile time for Goldsmith, when even writing music for TV movies and episode scores his brazen genius shone like few others.
I detect the same sharp edge in the scores for HAWKINS ON MURDER (great FSM CD), THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL/ A STEP OUT OF LINE (great Intrada release) and POLICE STORY (great Prometheus release). Thankfully we have those wonderful scores on CD. BARNABY JONES sounds like it might be cut from the same cloth, not in the sense that it sounds the same as the others, but that it seems to ooze imagination and sheer audacity throughout. It's like you could give Goldsmith the most mundane TV material in 1973 and he'd make it sound as if he was scrambling his brains and really making it the coolest music on earth, instead of just going "Oh-oh, TV - nobody's gonna remember this stuff" - and playing a synth sustain with his butt cheeks (although that would probably have been cool too).
Nice score indeed. I just hope we see a legit release of this music before too much more time has passed!
I've heard there's a Barnaby Jones unmentionable, but since I think the music is so excellent I dearly hope one of our beloved labels can see their way to putting out an official release of this!
Nice score indeed. I just hope we see a legit release of this music before too much more time has passed!
I've heard there's a Barnaby Jones unmentionable, but since I think the music is so excellent I dearly hope one of our beloved labels can see their way to putting out an official release of this!
Yavar
Me too Yavar, it would be an instant purchase for me and many many more of us I'm sure.
I would be on the list to request this too but I don't know to who. Certainly FSM in the old days but since Jerry scored this single episode you can't milk the name like you can on DR. KILDARE or THE MAN FROM UNCLE. TV releases these days, if they go back at all, tend to center on comic books or sci-fi franchises. This was a Quinn Martin series and no one has even coughed up any original track from his most famous and popular series THE FUGITIVE. Give me a glint of hope and I will get up some enthusiasm.
I would be on the list to request this too but I don't know to who. Certainly FSM in the old days but since Jerry scored this single episode you can't milk the name like you can on DR. KILDARE or THE MAN FROM UNCLE. TV releases these days, if they go back at all, tend to center on comic books or sci-fi franchises. This was a Quinn Martin series and no one has even coughed up any original track from his most famous and popular series THE FUGITIVE. Give me a glint of hope and I will get up some enthusiasm.
Isn't it just so Henry, a little "glint of hope" just a few words of encouragement goes a long way for us faithful collectors.
This was a Quinn Martin series and no one has even coughed up any original track from his most famous and popular series THE FUGITIVE. Give me a glint of hope and I will get up some enthusiasm.
There weren't any "original tracks" for the "The Fugitive" other than the 40 minutes or so of library music Peter Rugolo composed prior to the pilot and which has had two CD releases (first by Silva and then the bonus CD in the boxed DVD release of the complete series, though some of the cues are different). The rest of the series was entirely tracked from the CBS Music Library and then later the Dominic Frontiere cues originally done for "Outer Limits" and "Stoney Burke".
OTOH, when it comes to original scores for a QM series, the Holy Grail for me would be Bronislau Kaper's work for the first episodes of "The FBI."
Quinn Martin Productions ... how about "12 O'clock High"?
That could happen, because it's one of the few QM Productions not owned by CBS - it's on Twentieth Century Fox's watch (the series was a co-production between Mr. Martin and TCF TV).
