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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: Tarzan (Ron Ely) music.   Last Post   Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 9:54 AM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) I think I remember liking the music to the 60s TV series starring Ron Ely, which was repeated here in the UK in the 70s. Does anyone else remember it? I think I remember a Planet-of-the-Apes-style percussiveness about it. Anyone know anything about this?    Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 10:01 AM     By:   Simon Morris   (Member) I remember the series very well (like you, from the repeated 70's screenings here in the UK). One episode which always sticks in my mind is where Tarzan ('ape man' as villains sneeringly used to call him) was made stone deaf for an episode. He was underwater and the crooks threw grenades into the water.... I don't especially recall the scores, but I certainly do vividly remember the theme music. As I recall there were two different themes, both of which I can still hum reasonably accurately    Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 1:08 PM     By:   Timmer   (Member) Brit pop band MADNESS did a superb ska version of the theme for one of they're albums, don't remember the title as I no longer own it.    Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 3:24 PM     By:   Jeff Bond   (Member) The theme is pretty damn exciting...from a period of great TV title sequences and great themes...    Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 4:41 PM     By:   Timmer   (Member) Brit pop band MADNESS did a superb ska version of the theme for one of they're albums, don't remember the title as I no longer own it. By the way, who wrote this theme?    Posted:   Jun 20, 2005 - 5:27 PM     By:   Simon Morris   (Member) By the way, who wrote this theme? According to Jon Burlingame's indispensible book TV'S GREATEST HITS, Sydney Lee for the first season and Nelson Riddle for the second. And like I say, they were BOTH pretty damned memorable....if only tv music was like this nowadays.    Posted:   May 19, 2018 - 4:31 PM     By:   johnjohnson   (Member) I remember the series very well (like you, from the repeated 70's screenings here in the UK). One episode which always sticks in my mind is where Tarzan ('ape man' as villains sneeringly used to call him) was made stone deaf for an episode. He was underwater and the crooks threw grenades into the water.... I don't especially recall the scores, but I certainly do vividly remember the theme music. As I recall there were two different themes, both of which I can still hum reasonably accurately That's one of the episodes I remember from the 70s. LWT used to show the series on a Sunday afternoon.    Posted:   May 19, 2018 - 5:58 PM     By:   Broughtfan   (Member) There were actually three main titles composed during the series' two-season run. My belief is that Walter Greene, who was credited (at the end of the actual episode, not IMDb) with scoring the pilot, "Eyes of the Lion" as well as most of the first season episodes, composed the first, and my opinion, the best of the three themes. Was hard pressed to find it on YT but, with persistent searching, prevailed. Why this theme was ever replaced in the first place I'll never know (works extremely well with the MT visuals, much better than that dopey-sounding march that replaced it about five episodes in). Check it out...it's as exciting as sixties TV themes got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXrpmJ0XEE    Posted:   May 20, 2018 - 10:06 AM     By:   paulhickling   (Member) I remember the series very well (like you, from the repeated 70's screenings here in the UK). One episode which always sticks in my mind is where Tarzan ('ape man' as villains sneeringly used to call him) was made stone deaf for an episode. He was underwater and the crooks threw grenades into the water.... I don't especially recall the scores, but I certainly do vividly remember the theme music. As I recall there were two different themes, both of which I can still hum reasonably accurately That's one of the episodes I remember from the 70s. LWT used to show the series on a Sunday afternoon. This is the one I remember first before being replaced by this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJicWK5XQS4 But that first one is the best. Great theme and rhythm. The Madness version is I believe on their first album and is titled 'Tarzan's Nuts'! I had to seek it after hearing it on the radio at a friend's house over thirty years ago. Others and I looked at each other and said "that's the Tarzan but it sounds like Madness! Listening to it they replace the middle eight with one of their own. Still, the only decent version that you can track down easily.    Posted:   May 20, 2018 - 11:59 AM     By:   Gary Mongiovi   (Member) Here’s the Madness version (“Tarzan’s Nuts”): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xX5c69iMU Gary    Posted:   May 21, 2018 - 8:50 AM     By:   roy phillippe   (Member) I think I remember liking the music to the 60s TV series starring Ron Ely, which was repeated here in the UK in the 70s. Does anyone else remember it? I think I remember a Planet-of-the-Apes-style percussiveness about it. Anyone know anything about this? "Tarzan's March", credited to Sydney Lee appeared on the Al Hirt LP "The Horn Meets The Hornet", RCA 1966, arranged and conducted by Frank Hunter. It's all TV themes including "T.H.E Cat" by Lalo Schifrin, "Run Buddy Run" by Jerry Fielding, "The Green Hornet Theme" by Billy May and "Run For Your Life" by Pete Rugolo. as far as I know this is the only recordings of these themes.     General Discussion: Tarzan (Ron Ely) music.    < 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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