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These are the radio programs I've been able to confirm as scored by Goldsmith: 1951-11-21 - Columbia Workshop - We Gather Together 1954-02-21 - Hallmark Hall of Fame - Episode 41: Simon Bolivar 1954-04-04 - Hallmark Hall of Fame - Episode 47: Dr. William Mayo 1954-04-25 - Hallmark Hall of Fame - Episode 50: Stradivarius (his music played on a Stradivarius, no less!) 1954-06-05 - CBS Romance - Lost Horizon 1954-06-19 - CBS Romance - Lord Sweeney 1954-07-10 - CBS Romance - Cordova / Cordoba 1956-02-10 - CBS Radio Workshop - Storm 1956-02-17 - CBS Radio Workshop - A Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell 1956-06-22 - CBS Radio Workshop - Another Point Of View' or 'Hamlet Revisited' 1956-09-05 - Suspense - The Security Agent 1956-09-14 - CBS Radio Workshop - A Pride of Carrots & Venus Well Served 1956-10-16 - Suspense - The Prophecy Of Bertha Abbott 1956-12-08 - CBS Romance - The Guitar 1957-02-10 - CBS Radio Workshop - 1489 Words 1958-02-02 - Frontier Gentleman - The Shelton Brothers 1958-02-09 - Frontier Gentleman - Charlie Meeker 1958-02-16 - Frontier Gentleman - The Honkytonkers He does not seem to have scored any episodes of Escape, which had three pretty stable composers over its run (the last being Leith Stevens!). A few episodes are uncredited, but the consistency of the other composers, and timing of the uncredited shows (most come before any other known radio scores, bar that 1951 one, an outlier) make his involvement with those seem pretty unlikely. Also, two episodes he scored were preceded by versions he didn't score: 1954-02-06 - CBS Romance - Lost Horizon - Ben Ludlow, not Goldsmith 1954-12-18 - CBS Romance - The Bachelor - Ben Ludlow, not Goldsmith All four, Goldsmith's two and Ludlow's, are credited, so you can jump to the end and check, if you don't know (or trust) the date given for the episode, wherever you find it. These are said to have been his, but can't be confirmed (by me, I mean): 1954-06-26 - CBS Romance - The Kreutzen List 1955-07-09 - CBS Romance - Last Summer's Love 1958-07-20 - Frontier Gentleman - Mighty Mouse The last one was featured in a Goldsmith-centric Old Time Radio broadcast, but the episode's composer is not credited on the recording, and one online source I found gives the music to Joel Davis. I don't yet know who's right, but my ears and its date tell me it's probably Davis. Jerry also supervised, only, the scores for these episodes: 1955-11-19 - CBS Romance - The Big Fish Story 1956-01-16 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Ricardo Amerigo Matter 1956-06-09 - CBS Romance - The Bachelor 1956-09-22 - CBS Romance - The Law And Ms. Deborah 1956-12-15 - CBS Romance - The Indian Sign 1956-12-22 - CBS Romance - The Cave 1956-12-29 - CBS Romance - A Quiet Little Party 1957-01-20 - Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - The Blooming Blossom Matter Jerry is often credited with the Johnny Dollar theme, though the show had been on for quite a while, before even his first radio piece at the top of the top list. I thought I'd seen this confirmed one way or the other (leaning 'yes'), but I can't find that now. The Ricardo Amerigo Matter episode deliberately gives nods to its music supervisors. Jerry's full name is used as character, and the titular Mr. Amerigo is partially named after the series' regular music supervisor, Amerigo Marino. Cool. If you can find the formerly posted sections of Carol Goldsmith's intended bio (try archive.org), Jerry describes the process of Music Supervision to her in a lot of fascinating detail. It seems like pre-hip-hop DJing.
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I don't know that I'd describe *all* of his radio output as "amazing" though it was consistently of quality. However, "amazing" does aptly describe the CBS Radio Workshop episode 1489 Words, and "The Highwayman" in particular. It instantly became one of my favorite Goldsmith works when I heard it, and my first thought was that we need a new recording. Personally I think it would be a great addition to a potential third volume of Thriller (there are only four unrepresented original Goldsmith Thriller scores left, and if Tadlow would want to keep it an all-Goldsmith program, The Highwayman would fill things out very nicely, as an appropriately ghostly addition). Yavar
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