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 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 11:15 AM   
 By:   Niall from Ireland   (Member)

I often wonder why we have never had any proper release of the music from this long running and ever popular TV series ? Apart from the great theme music there is also the pilot film, The Homecoming - A Christmas Story, and five or six early episodes scored by Jerry, not to mention Alexander Courage and Arthur Morton's contributions! I had hoped for a while that the famous Blue Box might be a Walton's collection, given the Blue Ridge Mountains connection...well it could have been! Anyway, can anyone shed any light on this, do tapes still exist and if they do what are the chances of a release ? Lukas, Doug, Ford ?

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 1:50 PM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

I second that motion, the homecoming would be soooo cool to have. Great themes throughout.

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 2:24 PM   
 By:   MRAUDIO   (Member)

I second that motion, the homecoming would be soooo cool to have. Great themes throughout.

Yes, I too, would love to see these scores released. THE HOMECOMING - A CHRISTMAS STORY has always been a favorite of mine...:-)

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 3:08 PM   
 By:   Jolly Roger   (Member)

I too was thinking there might be something to the Blue Ridge/Blue Box connections. Regardless, these would be nice to have.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 3:37 PM   
 By:   Richard May   (Member)

Add me to the list too. A while back a few of us, including Ron Burbella, exchanged our admiration for these scores. You'd have thought that such a release would have good cross-over appeal with such strong Waltons fans-sites out there. I imagine there may be licensing problems, but have no proof. Maybe the tapes don't exist.

One can only hope, one day...

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 5:24 PM   
 By:   vinylscrubber   (Member)

They must be stored somewhere at FOX. (Perhaps there's another multiple disk set being worked on as we speak at either Varese or Intrada.)

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 5:30 PM   
 By:   George Komar   (Member)

"The Homecoming," coupled with the theme and episode music that Goldsmith wrote for the first season of "The Waltons" would make a great CD.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 5:58 PM   
 By:   Foodman   (Member)

Yeah, I've heard the Homecoming music and it would be great to have it along with The List of Adrian Messenger.




Big Barry

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   Bach-Choi   (Member)

Yes, definitely something I'd be interested in procuring. Also deserving of special mention is Arthur Morton, who contributed many beautiful scores to such season two offerings as "The Air Mail Man", The Bequest, "The Car" and "The Five Foot Shelf." My favorite score of Sandy Courage's, who scored all episodes for the remaining seasons, was probably season five's "The Firestorm", which features an extraordinary performance by Richard Thomas as John Boy.

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2008 - 8:47 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Wouldn't you have to deal with Paramount AND Warner Bros., since the TV movie was made by CBS in-house (Lorimar didn't exist at the time)?

 
 Posted:   Mar 20, 2008 - 9:12 AM   
 By:   Gold Digger   (Member)

I often wonder why we have never had any proper release of the music from this long running and ever popular TV series ? Apart from the great theme music there is also the pilot film, The Homecoming - A Christmas Story, and five or six early episodes scored by Jerry, not to mention Alexander Courage and Arthur Morton's contributions! I had hoped for a while that the famous Blue Box might be a Walton's collection, given the Blue Ridge Mountains connection...well it could have been! Anyway, can anyone shed any light on this, do tapes still exist and if they do what are the chances of a release ? Lukas, Doug, Ford ?

As Cindy Lover says this would mean dealing with Paramount which is probably a no no. Nice idea and if the big soundtrack producers can do a miracle deal then I for one would welcome an initial CD or 2CD of JG's contributions then latter CD volumes for the remaining composer scores.

 
 Posted:   Mar 20, 2008 - 10:24 AM   
 By:   mgh   (Member)

I too would buy this in a heartbeat. Great Americana.

 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2009 - 3:31 PM   
 By:   Jörn   (Member)

Hallo.

I get out this older post, because my hopes for an WALTONS cd box ist still alive!

As mentioned before in this thread, not only Goldsmith effort to this series is great (even if i prefer his episode music more, than his score for the pilot HOMECOMING);
Arthur Mortons and Sandy Courage scores are truly some of the best things ever written for TV (specially in the 70s)!

Once ive heard that the apes are lost by a fire at LORIMA (if I remember correctly, it was Lucas, who sayed that).

But I could imagine, Morton, Courage and even Goldsmith have stored some tapes of the recordings in theire homes.

Specially Alexander Courage seems to be very cooperative in releasing his music (remember his
good conection with Neal Norman on his Star Trek scores).

And today it seems to be possible, to get licence from every studio (watch the latest releases from Intrada, FSM, ect).
And didnt FSM has acess to the WARNER archive?

So please, Lucas, Doug and all others:
Try to release some of this great music from one of the true classics of the american television!

Greetings

 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2009 - 5:50 PM   
 By:   Jeff Bond   (Member)

We're vacationing in Maui and we were driving our rental car the other day and heard a radio commercial for a local BBQ restaurant, and underneath the announcer they were playing the Waltons theme. Nothing says Hawaiian barbecue like Jerry's Waltons theme.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2009 - 8:00 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Jeff, I can top that -- unfortunately.

One of my first impressions of L.A. culture when I arrived in the mid-70's was hearing a radio commercial for a British style pub "where our waitresses in hot pants will be eager to serve you." The music underneath the voice-over? Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending."

Well, it WAS British.

 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2009 - 10:20 PM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

Not sure if I heard this hear or there, but Waltons was Lorimar Television and I heard from SOMEONE that those things don't exist, like the music to the Waltons, maybe Fake said something on the Intrada board, anyway, I heard chances are slim to none.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 1, 2009 - 10:37 PM   
 By:   Ford A. Thaxton   (Member)

Not sure if I heard this hear or there, but Waltons was Lorimar Television and I heard from SOMEONE that those things don't exist, like the music to the Waltons, maybe Fake said something on the Intrada board, anyway, I heard chances are slim to none.


You can say "None"..

I spent a very long time looking for these masters and thing that still exists are the music stems which are conformed to picture with dips in volume,etc..

So, this might be a good choice to re-record by someone like Bill Stromberg..


Ford A. Thaxton

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 6, 2009 - 7:56 AM   
 By:   Niall from Ireland   (Member)

Not sure if I heard this hear or there, but Waltons was Lorimar Television and I heard from SOMEONE that those things don't exist, like the music to the Waltons, maybe Fake said something on the Intrada board, anyway, I heard chances are slim to none.


You can say "None"..

I spent a very long time looking for these masters and thing that still exists are the music stems which are conformed to picture with dips in volume,etc..

So, this might be a good choice to re-record by someone like Bill Stromberg..


Ford A. Thaxton


Ford,
Thanks for the update, sad news, still, we live in hope!

 
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