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 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 7:26 PM   
 By:   Graham S. Watt   (Member)

And that means Stefan Miklos, James Phillips etc etc!

Have you been to the NIGHT GALLERY website? I stumbled upon it almost by accident, but it's got lots of goodies. What particularly called my attention was their claim that they are preparing "a CD release of the scores". Well, it's Universal of course, so that may not come to pass. I even e-mailed them at the Serling site about this but, as yet, have had no reply. I couldn't see when the site had last been updated either, by the way.

However, there are soundclips up from the original shows, with sound effects and dialogue included. It showcases many of the great scores for the series, including Billy Goldenberg's work for the pilot, plus the contributions to the series by fine composers such as Robert Prince, Oliver Nelson and Gil Mellé.

If you go to the site, click on the Episode Guide.

www.nightgallery.net

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 7:28 PM   
 By:   Graham S. Watt   (Member)

Ah, again a problem with the colour blue. Why can't we access the site directly? Blah, maybe we can. Technology.

 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 7:57 PM   
 By:   Heath   (Member)

I fear you will be waiting a long time for this. That CD announcement has been on the site for years and will probably stay in the planning stage for years more. Pity. Meantime, the downloadable sound files are welcome and lovely resource.

For me, Oliver Nelson's music is THE Night Gallery sound. That electric violin is both beguiling and frightening - the perfect compliment to the show, in other words.

Heath

 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 8:48 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)


For me, Oliver Nelson's music is THE Night Gallery sound. That electric violin is both beguiling and frightening - the perfect compliment to the show, in other words.

Heath


Since I hadn't seen either show in many years,it was a wonderful surprise when the man who composed music for THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and NIGHT GALLERY was also a talented Jazz arranger/composer/Tenor Saxophone player whose 1961 album, BLUES AND THE ABSTRACT TRUTH happens to be one of the finest Jazz albums ever recorded. I enjoyed the album for years without ever knowing that Nelson ventured into tv scoring.

It seems to me that NIGHT GALLERY used to be seen as an inferior follow-up to Serling's TWILIGHT ZONE. Time has definitely been kind to the show and the remastered prints on the Mystery Channel have only added to the program's improved standing.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 10:52 PM   
 By:   James Phillips   (Member)

Graham,

You may want to know I sent Gil Melle a DVD copy of the pilot CYBORG: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN two weeks ago because he did not have his own copy. That's all I can say for now on Gil's involvement with Harve Bennett and Universal with regarding this production. Sorry if I sound mysterious on this, but the truth is stranger than fiction.

You can also become a member of THE NIGHT GALLERY group via their website and receive daily messages.

James

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 27, 2004 - 11:23 PM   
 By:   LRobHubbard   (Member)

I don't think that we can expect Universal to do anything regarding score cd's for these shows - witness their handling of DVD releases for NIGHT GALLERY, COLUMBO and other shows.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 28, 2004 - 6:48 PM   
 By:   Graham S. Watt   (Member)

I kind of suspected that the announcement in question had been up for some time. Oh well, no album, but it's still nice to click on those episode clips (and see all those lovely paintings again too).

Yes, that electric violin from the Oliver Nelson scores was pretty much THE sound of NIGHT GALLERY, and in fact that was the piece that seemed to find its way into plenty of episodes. Great composer, and great jazzman.

Oh, and James, looking forward to hearing the next update of The Gil Mellé Files!

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 3, 2004 - 5:50 PM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

I found this website several months ago and I was very impressed. In fact, since then I am very interested TV music of the 70s. My favorite scores from that show are surspringly not the Gil Melle scores (which are very good), but the two Paul Glass scores. Both are fantastic!!

The Goldenberg pilot score is even great. I remember the music for the Nazi episode, which sounds very strange.

BTW I find the Guitar-only score for one of the Lovecraft adaptions interesting. The soundfile, in addition with dialogue spoken by Barbara Rush, had a very haunting quality to it. I forget who was the composer of this.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 3, 2004 - 11:27 PM   
 By:   quiller007   (Member)

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BTW I find the Guitar-only score for one of the Lovecraft adaptions interesting. The soundfile, in addition with dialogue spoken by Barbara Rush, had a very haunting quality to it. I forget who was the composer of this.


Robert Bain is the composer. The episode
is titled COOL AIR.

Den

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 4, 2004 - 10:48 AM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

Ah, yes it was Blain.

He was called in last second to score this episode, because the producers couldn´t find stock music, which fit to the episode.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 20, 2015 - 10:02 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Have you been to the NIGHT GALLERY website? What particularly called my attention was their claim that they are preparing "a CD release of the scores"....
www.nightgallery.net


I assume the CD never materialized. Just watched a dvdr of "Five Desperate Women"(1971) scored by Paul Glass. Not a great TVmovie, or a great score, but it's that 70s music with some Night Gallery riffs.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 21, 2015 - 1:59 AM   
 By:   LRobHubbard   (Member)

Have you been to the NIGHT GALLERY website? What particularly called my attention was their claim that they are preparing "a CD release of the scores"....
www.nightgallery.net


I assume the CD never materialized. Just watched a dvdr of "Five Desperate Women"(1971) scored by Paul Glass. Not a great TVmovie, or a great score, but it's that 70s music with some Night Gallery riffs.


Only the DVD's - no CD's. Although Scott Skelton did put together a proposal for a 7cd box set that was 'floated around to several soundtrack labels'. The stumbling block appears to be someone at Universal.

The proposal can be downloaded from the Night Gallery Facebook page... and it'll make you drool.

https://www.facebook.com/download/700611986730948/Night Gallery 7-CD proposal A.pdf

 
 Posted:   Jul 21, 2015 - 4:30 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

I loved this series. And the intro was great!

 
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