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Sep 8, 2013 - 2:11 PM
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OnyaBirri
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This music never gets old. I grew up with this show. The soundtrack LP on Philips was my first soundtrack LP. Along with Lost in Space music by Williams and Herrmann, this is what got me into film scores.
We are fortunate to have so much of this stuff available. There were four volumes on CD, plus the film scores. Eventually, an 8-disc set containing all the music was released, but it is not very listenable in terms of sequencing.
Cobert was really great at texture, ranging from a fairly large orchestra (for television) to alto flute, vibes, and percussion.
Unless someone has already done so, I plan to post instructions on sequencing the original CDs using the superior audio from the box set, but I don't know when I'll find the time.
Curious if anyone else likes this music, or Robert Cobert's music in general. He seems to be under-appreciated.
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Well, Onya - if discussion means disagreeing, then that's healthy in itself. I've never been a Bob Cobert fan, but I'm also a bit of a Bob Cobert virgin in the sense that I never ever saw "Dark Shadows". It was never shown on British TV when I was growing up, so I have very little nostalgia factor there.
What I do recall are some of his scores for the (usually) Dan Curtis TV Movies of the era. Even back then I found his approach elemental in the extreme - tremolo strings, meandering woodwinds (better than "wall of sound", though), bursts of horror stingers... - and a curious use of "spotting", which I recognised in so many Curtis/ Cobert collaborations that I deduce it must have been deliberate, and not the work of an insensitive studio hand: in a five-minute "creeping-around-the-empty-house" scene, we'd get thirty seconds of silence, thirty seconds of a tremolo string sustain, thirty seconds of silence, thirty seconds of a meandering flute... you get my point. I never thought it worked for a moment, in the dramatic sense. And I never had any desire to listen to it out of context either.
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Thumbs up from me , I also listened often to that wonderful Dark shadows lp when I was younger and loved it immensely. A great diversity of music. I also enjoyed all of his film scores as well, wish he had done more scores, but what he has given us is top notch in my book.
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