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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Helen St. John   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 3, 2016 - 5:08 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) She performed some Moroder-themes from the early 80s like Flashdance and Scarface. Now I just ordered this 1983 album where Moroder, Levay, Faltermeyer and Forsey all worked: https://www.discogs.com/Helen-St-John-Helen-St-John-Plays-The-Piano-To-Turn-The-Stone/release/4288330 Anyone here who owns this album? I wonder if six of the tracks are instrumental?    Posted:   Jul 4, 2016 - 2:05 AM     By:   Score Whore   (Member) She composed a love theme from SUPERMAN III which, as far as I know, the tune never appeared in the film. It was released on the "Ewok Celebration" LP.    Posted:   Jul 4, 2016 - 9:44 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) She composed a love theme from SUPERMAN III which, as far as I know, the tune never appeared in the film. It was released on the "Ewok Celebration" LP. According to imdb it is composed by Giorgio Moroder and Ken Thorne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBw04ndoJc    Posted:   Jul 13, 2016 - 4:53 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) My review from discogs: This instrumental album should really be of interest for fans of Giorgio Moroder and his group of studio workers in the early 1980s. I am a big fan of the instrumental film and TV music of Moroder, Harold Faltermeyer, Sylvester Levay and Keith Forsey, and on this album there are songs by all four. All of them (minus Moroder) are also performers here, along with Helen St. John on the piano. She is of course most known for performing Moroder's Love Theme from Flashdance. This album starts with three rather cheesy tunes which goes well into Richard Clayderman and Burt Bacharach territory, but from track 4, Faltermeyer's uptempo Petite Romance, the songs are getting more interesting, and side two of the album features fine songs all the way through. Some sounds from the 1982 Moroder soundtrack Cat People can be heard in the soundscape, on an album which surely must be called a product of its time. Let's hope a CD version with liner notes appears in the future, it had been interesting to know how the album came about, and how the different musicians worked in the studio.    Posted:   Jul 14, 2016 - 2:57 AM     By:   gmanca   (Member) I'm sorry I missed this, yes this is a great album, I purchased this a few years ago but the Italian version which is called Power to The Piano; Power to the Boogie is my favorite from the album and in second, the reworked Donna Summer's material from the Like a Rainbow unreleased album, specifically Melanie, heard as Bad Boys here. If you are into this album I would also recommend two other related works, Sparks' Terminal Jive and Icehouse's Primitive Man; the former has all of the Moroder gang while Primitive Man has Forsey's familiar drum work all over it.    Posted:   Jul 14, 2016 - 10:45 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) I didn't know Bad Boys was a reworked Donna Summer track, thanks. I have Icehouse's Love In Motion album, which is Primitive Man under a new title. I also love Simple Minds' Good News From The Next World, produced by Forsey in 1995. I prefer the Moroder-guys in instrumental mode though, and I see that Terminal Jive have only one instrumental track.    Posted:   Jul 20, 2016 - 4:52 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) bump    Posted:   Jul 25, 2016 - 7:44 AM     By:   Score Whore   (Member) She composed a love theme from SUPERMAN III which, as far as I know, the tune never appeared in the film. It was released on the "Ewok Celebration" LP. According to imdb it is composed by Giorgio Moroder and Ken Thorne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBw04ndoJc The theme is credited to her on the Ewok album. It may just be her playing it.    Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 1:13 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Yes, she was more of a performer than a composer.     General Discussion: Helen St. John    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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