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I think one of the most hilarious examples of what we're discussing here involves Goldsmith...
Back in the '80's(Remember THEM!?), I would religiously watch SCTV. John Candy would do this spoof about 3-D movies and everytime he did his"3-D effect" by shoving an object towards and away from the camera, they would play this music. It always made me laugh, and I assumed it was from some ancient sc-fi movie or TV show.
Flash forward to last year. My brother bought me that Twlight Zone 4-disc set from Silva. I was listening to the Goldsmith disc and there was that music!!! I said to myself, "SHIT!!!! I didn't know goldsmith wrote THAT!?" I can't remember which episode he wrote it for, but what a hoot that was!
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I think one of the most hilarious examples of what we're discussing here involves Goldsmith...
Back in the '80's(Remember THEM!?), I would religiously watch SCTV. John Candy would do this spoof about 3-D movies and everytime he did his"3-D effect" by shoving an object towards and away from the camera, they would play this music. It always made me laugh, and I assumed it was from some ancient sc-fi movie or TV show.
Flash forward to last year. My brother bought me that Twlight Zone 4-disc set from Silva. I was listening to the Goldsmith disc and there was that music!!! I said to myself, "SHIT!!!! I didn't know goldsmith wrote THAT!?" I can't remember which episode he wrote it for, but what a hoot that was!
NERVOUS MAN IN A FOUR DOLLAR ROOM is the episode that Goldsmith composed the "3D" music.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Waxman's "Prince Valiant" was tracked in the Time Tunnel episode "Robin Hood".
"Land Of The Giants" used Russell Garcia's "Fantastica" album.
Highly doubtful since they never owned that recording or the publishing.
I suspect that this might be more a case of Richard LaSalle paying "Homage" to Mr. Garcia.
What episodes did this music appear in anyway?
Ford A. Thaxton
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Jul 7, 2002 - 9:40 AM
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Wasn't the theme to "The Adventures of Superman" composed by Rozsa as well, though credited to Leon Klatzkin?
Quotation from the Rozsa Forum:
Recently I asked my old friend Herman Stein, the co-composer of many classic Universal sci-fi and monster movies of the "Fabulous Fifties" if he knew anything about this mystery. He replied in typical candor, "No, but I'll call my lawyer and get back to you!" Then he added, "Seriously, Don, I've always admired that theme music for its brilliance - the arpeggios and harp glissandos - personally, I wasn't in on Chudnow's sweatshop operation for canned TV music, thank God, but I knew a few of my colleagues who were. My best guess is Hersh Gilbert, but you know Rozsa could've ghosted it - what the hey, he might have done it to finance a holiday in Bermuda or something. I'll tell you something that's as true now as it was then - we were all doing things for work - to get paid. Our feeling was that if it was good it would sell. Our themes and cues were written to sell the product, in this case, a film or TV show. The Superman theme has always sold that show. The music stands out in front of the picture on the little black & white box. I sure wish I'd written it. And here's another thing - back in those days, we all felt, 'In 50 years, who's gonna care?' Or even 10. Ah, Klatzkin - I don't believe he could have written it. My best guess is a composer from Europe with a solid classical education." (Notes from a phone conversation)
Cheers, Don "Dejael"
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May 4, 2004 - 3:03 PM
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Quotation from the Rozsa Forum:
Recently I asked my old friend Herman Stein, the co-composer of many classic Universal sci-fi and monster movies of the "Fabulous Fifties" if he knew anything about this mystery. He replied in typical candor, "No, but I'll call my lawyer and get back to you!" Then he added, "Seriously, Don, I've always admired that theme music for its brilliance - the arpeggios and harp glissandos - personally, I wasn't in on Chudnow's sweatshop operation for canned TV music, thank God, but I knew a few of my colleagues who were. My best guess is Hersh Gilbert, but you know Rozsa could've ghosted it - what the hey, he might have done it to finance a holiday in Bermuda or something. I'll tell you something that's as true now as it was then - we were all doing things for work - to get paid. Our feeling was that if it was good it would sell. Our themes and cues were written to sell the product, in this case, a film or TV show. The Superman theme has always sold that show. The music stands out in front of the picture on the little black & white box. I sure wish I'd written it. And here's another thing - back in those days, we all felt, 'In 50 years, who's gonna care?' Or even 10. Ah, Klatzkin - I don't believe he could have written it. My best guess is a composer from Europe with a solid classical education." (Notes from a phone conversation)
Cheers, Don "Dejael"
I just found your posting of a couple of years ago while browsing around the site. After reading your coments about who may have composed the original 1950s Superman theme, I was wondering why these various themes and marches at their different tempos from the first season's episodes were not included in Volume 1 of the Adventures of Superman CD. Any ideas? Do you think these no longer exist? Cheers.
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As long as Castile is going to mention Universal's recycling of Waxman's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, then we must complete the picture by hopping from the thirties to the forties and mentioning the studio's recycling of themes by Salter and Skinner in their horror and mystery movies. As Hans told me in my CINEFANTASTIQUE interview back in the 70's, whenever there wasn't time or budget for an original score, he'd be asked to use library tracks -- a process the head of the music department called "Salterizing." For horror, especially, the main sources were SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (Skinner), THE WOLF MAN (Salter, Skinner, C. Previn), THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (Salter) and FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (mostly Salter). As late as CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, Universal was tracking a snippet from GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN into the mix.
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