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I finally got to see this 1984 Dick Lowry TV movie starring Brooke Shields on youtube, only for Levay's score. The film was kind of a proto DEAD CALM, with greed and human relations on a boat searching for gold.
Levay's mystical sequencer-based main theme is very nice, but perhaps it was used a little too much in various versions. Other than that there was some rather abstract underwater music that we haven't heard much from the composer elsewhere.
Director Lowry also worked with Levay on 1988's CASE CLOSED.
I have now seen 35 features, TV movies or pilots (NOT counting TV episodes) scored by Levay.
Did anyone see this film?
Complete movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN72AQK0N-4
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Not a clue about the music or the movie, but, according to "Torn Music", John Scott was originally going to score it, but creative differences put an end to that. Excerpts:
"I barely got five seconds into recording the first cue when the producers were telling me things like 'John, when the jellyfish comes in, we want a little warble' and 'John, it sounds too big' [Side note: why the hell else would you hire John Scott?!] and a list of things like that...Sylvester Levay had literally hours to come up with a scorer, since the film had a definite airday on the network... [He] is a very good friend and he told me he almost killed himself trying to do it so fast."
Yikes, I have that book, but had completely forgotten about that story. Thanks for the reminder.
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Oh, the broken record is back...
By the way, LOOM is presumably no more. Jerome is not working with Schmoelling and Waters anymore.
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Yes, and that's a good album.
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bump
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