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Jul 21, 2012 - 11:33 AM
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Thor
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No, not the old Gerry Anderson series, but the 1985-1987 series starring Nick Mancuso as mysterious private dick Ray Stingray operating out of LA. It's an EXTREMELY stylished show, obviously inspired by MIAMI VICE, with lots of flashy editing and long segments of almost music video-like quality (with no dialogue). Obviously, the intrigue itself isn't as smart and refined as its east coast counterpart, but it's absolutely gorgeous as an audviosual universe. Strange to consider that it has no DVD release, to my knowledge (only VHS).
The music is by TV veteran Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, who I don't really know. It's chockful of funky synth grooves, sometimes overlayed by orchestral bits. Strains of Jan Hammer, sure, but also an identity of its own. I have no idea if it has a soundtrack, but it should have. It's really good.
To be fair, I've only seen the pilot and the first episode proper, "Ancient Eyes". The reason being, once again, that it features an Oingo Boingo song. This time it's "Private Life" played over a sequence of Stingray working out in his home (as in, you know, a glimpse into his private life), but then bleeds into the diegetic as it's played on a stereo at a university campus. Pretty cool use.
Was there ever a soundtrack for this? Or any of the music featured on other albums?
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I've never seen Stringray myself, but I've always felt Mike Post deserved more representation on disc. He was virtually the musical backbone for a generation of TV viewers, and there is so much great stuff. Personally, I would love to have some releases of his music from Hunter and The A-Team.
And The Rockford Files, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, The Greatest American Hero, Hardcastle and McCormick, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Magnum, The Rousters, Baa Baa Black Sheep. Those shows all had great scores by Mike Post.
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Mike Post sure knows how to write catchy TV music. Those are 2 of my favorite of his themes.
Tales of the Gold Monkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFN6agkNnQ
Baa Baa Black Sheep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qJjwXhG9E
I think both themes presage Post`s later A-Team theme.
Usually what Post and Carpenter did was to write the score to the pilot episodes and the next shows and then hand the scoring duties over to their "staff composers" and only occasionaly compose single episode scores. But Mike Post always tried to conduct all of the scores. Anyway it would be nice to have some of his work released. After the success of FSM Knight Rider it is suprising that there weren`t more releases of episodic TV scores.
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Thor, soundtrackcollector.com is a great way of finding out if a soundtrack is released. Seems like Stingray is not:
http://soundtrackcollector.com/title/28539/Stingray
I was not familiar with this show or score, but it sounded really cool. Let's hope for a CD release.
Does anyone know what Pete Carpenter died from, in 1987?
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I would love for a release of the Magnum P.I. scores as well.
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Yes,personally, I have always rather liked that album. However, I imagine he means the original scores, rather than the rather brief CD recorded in London several years ago that was arranged by Derek Wadsworth.
As I said though, it is very brief, and rather repetitive. Some of the originals would , I must admit, be very nice indeed.
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