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Zooba or Merlyn, did you ever figure this out?
Yavar
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In Jon Burlingame's Academy of Television Interviews with Jerry Goldsmith discussing his early Radio Work, the composer himself said that he had worked on a show called "Escape". I have heard his work from the show's CBS Radio Workshop, Frontier Gentleman and CBS Radio Romance & Suspense but never anything from "Escape". Does anyone know of any Episode titles that Jerry did from the "Escape" series?
Thanks,
Zoob
I listen to ESCAPE and have yet to hear him credited.
Since ESCAPE and the series SUSPENSE were both at CBS, and sometimes re-used each other's scripts (and were both thriller-type series), it is possible he mixed up ESCAPE with the episodes of SUSPENSE for which he is credited in 1956:
http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p4.cgi?ArtistName=Goldsmith,%20Jerry&ArtistNumber=23944
The Security Agent (9/5/56) and The Prophecy of Bertha Abbott (10/16/56)
Listen here: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Suspense_Singles_By_Year_1956
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Ha! According to the JG Online site (and Goldsmith expert Yavar), he actually SCORED the episode of "Johnny Dollar" in which one of the musician suspects was a "Jerry Goldsmith". Where's that other thread?
I may have linked to something with that information but nothing on this subject is "according" to me.  I'm not an expert at all (or even particularly knowledgeable, though I'd like to be) on Goldsmith's radio work.
Yavar
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Hi Zoob
The majority of music for these radio shows ESCAPE in 1953 / 1954
were composed by Leith Stevens
but still searching for one with Jerry Goldsmith will let you know if I find it
Lyn
I went through the credits of every episode of Escape during the years when Jerry is known to have scored any radio, 1951 through 1954 (Jerry really started in 1954, but he did [at least] one show as early as '51, and I like to be thorough). To my delight, the majority of the episodes had music credits. Escape seems to have been unusually consistent given the comparatively hodge-podge composer assignments for other series. Early radio & TV were similar in this way. Week after week had "The special music for Escape is composed by Leith Stevens." Occasionally another guy would pick up a small set of episodes (Dell Castillo? Sy Feur? - I didn't note them [and probably can't spell them!]). The very few episodes with the credits missing were in the middles of long stretches of Stevens' episodes.
Escape overlaps Jerry's more certain radio career by about 7 months, March-September 1954 (Jerry started in earnest by February, and Escape started its 1954 season in March). Those last 24 episodes are each credited to Leith Stevens.
The only real opportunity for us to find the unlikely Goldsmith scored episode, earlier than 1954, would be to locate one where the credits aren't missing, and the composer's name is simply not given, and then to listen and guess based on the music.
At this point, it is at the best a very long shot that there is an episode of Escape with Jerry's own music.
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I think Jerry did say that he sometimes composed original radio music uncredited, in his early years at CBS... right? So it's still possible, even if it seems unlikely. We did after all just encounter an episode of CBS Suspense from early 1957 which clearly is his music all the way through, but apparently lacks a credit for him...
Yavar
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I think Jerry did say that he sometimes composed original radio music uncredited, in his early years at CBS... right? So it's still possible, even if it seems unlikely. We did after all just encounter an episode of CBS Suspense from early 1957 which clearly is his music all the way through, but apparently lacks a credit for him...
Yavar
Yes, it's a long shot, which means it is possible.
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