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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: Goldsmith's approach to THE HIGHWAYMAN CBS Radio   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 23, 2018 - 1:51 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) I remember many years ago and hearing for the first time a recording of the CBS Radio Workshop episode "1489 Words" on a late night sitting at my computer in L.A. I was mesmerized by Jerry Goldsmith's beautiful and telling music and especially to his score for THE HIGHWAYMAN section. Wonderfully narrated by William Conrad, Goldsmith's music immediately captured the mood and beauty of the story by Alfred Noyes and placed the listener into it's melancholy and passionate world. With Yavar, Clark and Jen's recent and wonderful GOLDSMITH ODYSSEY program summing up Goldsmith's 1950's output and hearing them discuss The Highwayman, it brought back all of the feelings of joy and awe that I experienced on that first discovering and hearing it. To me, echoing some of the Odyssey Boy's feelings, I find it a Goldsmith Masterpiece. How great would it be for TADLOW, who recently gave us Goldsmith's superb THRILLER Score Volumes, to newly record this beautiful piece of music in all of it's pure brilliance and magic without the narration. And then perhaps someone like Anthony Hopkins could additionally record it doing the narration. I'd love it. Anyway, I've been thinking about it so much and wondering what Goldsmith's approach was to scoring it. Was he given access to the text of the piece to ponder on his own? I'm sharing a youtube video I discovered with a reading of the piece and the text to go along with it. I can only imagine the young Maestro's own eyes going over it back in the 1950's when his career was just starting and all of his musical gifts were about to be unleashed on the world. Just amazing. Would have been neat to see a filmed version of The Highwayman with a Goldsmith score to accompany it. The images Goldsmith evoked for me of the Landlord's black eyed daughter and the story will however do just fine. Thank you for letting me share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UH0JB7m5A Here is the complete CBS RADIO WORKSHOP presentation of 1489 Words with Narration by William Conrad and Music by Jerry Goldsmith. All of Goldsmith's musical compositions in 1489 Words including his richly Americana flavored "The Thunder of Imperial Names" are truly a treasure to behold and indeed a promise of his brilliant work to come! "Mr. Goldsmith if you please..." Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLYZ53gs5Ao&t=68s    Posted:   Jul 23, 2018 - 3:18 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Goldsmith's CBS Radio Romance score to LOST HORIZON is yet another Early Gem in the Maestro's amazing career! Once again narrated and starring William Conrad. Enjoy! https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Romance_Singles/Romance_54-06-05_ep328_Lost_Horizon.mp3 Other scores at this link with Goldsmith music are LORD SWEENEY and CORDOBA. Listen for the announcer at the end of the episode crediting Goldsmith as composer. THE KRUETZEN LIST does not contain an announcer crediting music composition, but is thought by some to also be scored by Goldsmith.    Posted:   Jul 23, 2018 - 12:10 PM     By:   W. David Lichty [Lorien]   (Member) 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.    Posted:   Jul 23, 2018 - 9:35 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Thanks for sharing all the great info Lorien. So much great music by Jerry for the Radio definitely deserves to be re-recorded and celebrated. His Radio Works output alone is nothing short of Amazing.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2018 - 9:13 AM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) 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     General Discussion: Goldsmith's approach to THE HIGHWAYMAN CBS Radio    < 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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