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I loved this podcast, Thor -- well done! Years ago I bugged Jeff Commings to consider covering TV stuff in his own Williams odyssey, The Baton. I did fortunately talk him into including Heidi and Jane Eyre along with the theatrical films, but alas I didn't convince him to cover stuff like Wagon Train so I'm glad you have.
My personal preference, for what it's worth, would be for you to play more clips... why leave out any episode he scored, in terms of representation, if you have it on DVD? Even if there are FX, I think it's still worth it.
It was really cool to hear the original vocal songs that formed the basis of two of his three tracks on the Wagon Train LP recording -- now I understand why there were other names credited with him for those two! For anyone who's interested to hear the orchestral LP companions to Thor's playing of the songs, we cover them early on in our Wagon Train episode of The Goldsmith Odyssey, when we discuss the series proper and the LP:
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/10353387-episode-34-wagon-train-the-ah-chong-story-1961
By the way Thor, you're a good host... but (and perhaps this is again a matter of personal preference) I prefer an audio discussion to a lecture, personally. Is there any chance you might get a cohost to do these with you, and exchange ideas/insights with you about Williams's early work? Maybe Jeff Eldridge or my pal Tim Greiving would be interested to do that with you... or maybe Jeff Commings if he doesn't have to produce it on his own podcast?
Looking forward to more of these, in any case. Williams's TV output is very overlooked and IMDb is missing a ton of his credits, I think.
Yavar
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Thor
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Thanks for the comments, Yavar!
My personal preference, for what it's worth, would be for you to play more clips... why leave out any episode he scored, in terms of representation, if you have it on DVD? Even if there are FX, I think it's still worth it.
The choice and number of clips are a combination of many things -- availability, quality and to create as fluid a listening experience as possible. So for some TV shows, I might only play the theme, for others it's more an episode-by-episode thing. It was never meant to include music from every single episode, even when one is available. What you say is very interesting (and requires even more audio ripping), though, but it's something that might be good for a written database or page, with exhaustive info on each and every episode that is available. It's something I might consider in the future if and when I "transcribe" the contents of the series into a written format that is easily edited etc.
By the way Thor, you're a good host... but (and perhaps this is again a matter of personal preference) I prefer an audio discussion to a lecture, personally. Is there any chance you might get a cohost to do these with you, and exchange ideas/insights with you about Williams's early work? Maybe Jeff Eldridge or my pal Tim Greiving would be interested to do that with you... or maybe Jeff Commings if he doesn't have to produce it on his own podcast?
I do agree with you that having a conversation between more people is more dynamic, so I definitely thought long and hard about asking Jeff Eldridge to co-host (really the only other person I would have done it with), but in the end decided against it. One because of the inferior sound quality (it would have been a recorded Skype conversation or some such thing) and two, I think he's a rather private person, so I was hesitant to ask.
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the inferior sound quality (it would have been a recorded Skype conversation or some such thing)
You simply each record your own end of the conversation on your own computers in full quality, then marry the two files together after.
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the inferior sound quality (it would have been a recorded Skype conversation or some such thing)
You simply each record your own end of the conversation on your own computers in full quality, then marry the two files together after.
Exactly. Using Audacity for a local recording is standard practice at The Goldsmith Odyssey, among all the co-hosts (and some of our guests).
You should reach out to Jeff! And honestly Tim Greiving is also very much into investigating early Williams TV work himself...
Yavar
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Well let me run this neat idea by you then: have a different guest co-host on each time to join you, as you two tackle/discuss a different batch of early TV works of his! Then each of you could, say, pick your favorite cue to highlight from each TV score of his.
Yavar
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