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Nice work Justin! I think you forgot the earliest Goldsmith-scored CBS Romance we know about — Lost Horizon (which aired 6/5/1954, not to be confused with the Ben Ludlow-scored one which aired in February of the same year). The earliest example I know of Jerry writing in Asian mode…
Yavar
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Oh, goodness -- thanks for pointing that out. You are right. Yeah, I do have the music edited and ready, it was just out-of-order in the folder and I therefore didn't see it and thought I was done.
Well, tomorrow -- this time the final suite for CBS Romance. :-)
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What to expect from Monday's suites.
More obscurities, including the names Dave Grusin and David Shire.
And the final week of December I will end the year with the biggest bang I can with what I have: well known TV series and one delicious and unreleased orchestral score from a TV movie. Maybe a couple left over to start the year off wit ha bang, too.
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On the ninth day of the 12 Days of Goldsmith, Justin gave to you:
CBS Romance
Suite #9: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ehH6PyoKvDc
THIS time I and bring in the final CBS Romance score. And unlike my earlier comment, this is his first known score for the series, beating the previous one by a few days.
For this score, Jerry relies on a solo bass flute for long passages. There some percussion here and there and a little brass, but overall it's a solo bass flute score.
The score is serviceable although unremarkable largely.
And because if I don't do it … I have to double up suites for two or three days or I won't finish on the 22nd, so here comes one more suite today...
Frontiere Gentleman
Suite #10: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zyLhNofoQ9w
This suite comprises the only thee episodes Jerry scored of this short-lived series. The rest of the program was scored by Wilbur Hatch.
Jerry's scoring for the episodes is full orchestral, vibrant, colorful, engaging and at times even emotional. This is where it's at. It's a shame he didn't score any more episodes, but at 1958, he was sort of moving on to television.
I might disagree with Yavar some and probably place his work for this program, above "1,489 Words". But regardless of whether it's first or second to that score, it's still amongst his top works for radio. In fact, I accidentally went through some episodes scored by Hatch, and Hatch was doing some fine work himself. I'd highly suggest a disc of scoring from both composers, should be put out by some label.
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On the tenth day of the 12 Days of Goldsmith, Justin gave to you:
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Suite #10: https://youtube.com/watch?v=w3YZi6Uyr8M
This suite covers all episode we currently know Jerry scored.
Opening the suite is "Simon Bolivar", a score performed entirely on acoustic guitar, with a re-occurring five-note theme. The suite is made up of three mini suites where I tried to arrange the cues into a listening experience that kept going, and individual tracks that didn't lend themselves to be combined with others. I don't recall this being the full score.
Next up is "Dr. William Mayo". A serviceable score for orchestra which is neither here nor there. It would be worth hearing the full score in decent quality I think.
Closing the suite is "Stradivarius", which of course has solo cues played by a Stradivarius. Other cues include brass, woodwinds, and more strings.
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This week's suites.
"Lucas Tanner"
Composer: David Shire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYbA404UEhs
Suite covering the pilot and one or two other episodes from the series that Shire scored.
"Palmerstown, U.S.A."
Composer: Al Schackman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3ifccQuOwlk
Suite #1 (or two) for season one -- the only season he scored, and it appears he may have scored the entire first season.
"Sarge"
Composer: David Shire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yhYaa7TYM6A
Suite covering the first few episodes Shire, minus two or three episodes where no video was found and we don't know who scored them.
"Sarge" again.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4oWlpoYxsqo
Suite for the feature-length pilot -- the only episode Dave Grusin scored. Well, I mean, the full composer credits for the series are yet to be completed due to missing episodes, but I'm calling it since he didn't get named passed the pilot thus far.
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On the eleventh day of the 12 Days of Goldsmith, Justin gave to you:
Suspense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKOw6n3LJMM
I ripped this back in 2017 and made video of the music, so this is not new, I am just re-linking to it.
And a double-up entry for "Luke Slaughter of Tombstone". Some YouTube user got cues from the recording sessions of this and "Frontier Gentleman", and made a video of it. While apparently not credited aloud in LSoT, the slate calls indicate otherwise. LSoT aired in 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55E2BZqRsuM
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On the twelfth day of the 12 Days of Goldsmith, Justin gave to you:
Suspense
Suite #12: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z7Imbv_F5MQ
This is the final suite. I have covered all currently-known scored episodes of radio series by Jerry Goldsmith.
This final suite covers two episodes.
Opening the suite is "The Security Agent". Brass, xylophone, snare drum, woodwinds, strings, it's got a little of everything. One maybe two themes repeat and musical ideas reoccur as well. It's a lot of tense work and some dramatic moments. A score like this might be served well to be heard outside the program so one can better hear the music and appreciate it.
Closing the suite is "Eyewitness", which is made up almost completely serviceable material made of low-key dramatic pieces and quiet suspense. There's no much here worth hearing.
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Nice job Justin, and thanks for your traversal of all the Goldsmith radio scores we’ve been able to find so far!
I think The Security Agent is one of his very best radio scores and it deserves a new complete recording. I do think Eyewitness has a couple thrilling highlights (particularly for the prison uprising) but it doesn’t have the kind of thematic development that makes me love Goldsmith so much (and which is very present in The Security Agent).
Yavar
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This week's suites.
I'm closing the year out with a bang.
"Banacek"
Composers: Allyn Ferguson and Jack Elliott
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DAPxMmi54X0
Suite #1. Only suite I have recorded. This suite covers episode two and half of episode three for season one. Goldenberg scored the pilot (episode one). If there is enough interest, I'll do more of season one (the only season available to me).
"Cannon"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jzD2O0vbLRo
Suite #3 for John Parker. Since decided to not cover all of season one of "The Rookies" and had the extra space, I made a fourth suite which will be up next week. All the suites cover all the episodes he scored.
"The Rookies"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A648Q02Vsqw
Suite #5 -- the final suite -- for Elmer Bernstein. All five suites cover all the episodes he did for the series.
Sandy Bottom Orchestra
Composer: David Bell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-HEqwlBaWQ
A TV movie. This lush orchestral score has sadly not been released. In an interview I did with him years ago, David said this was one of is favorite scores he ever did:
http://rejectedfilmscores.125mb.com/davidbellinterview.html
NOTE: I erroneously listed Jay Chattaway. And also did so in another thread. My mistake!
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What to expect from Monday's suites.
I'm going to try and start the year off with a bang, but so far it looks like I only have half a bang.
The final suite for "Cannon" which ties up Parker's work, the only suite I did for season one of "The Rookies" that wasn't Bernstein, the second "Palmerstown, U.S.A." suite, and a yet-to-be-determined fourth suite.
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This week's suites.
And some notes afterwards about suites and TV series score threads for this year.
I start the new year off with 3/4ths of a bang.
"Cannon"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RE_rYGVC728
Suite #4 -- the final suite -- for John Parker. With the two suites I did beforehand and these four numbered suites, I have covered all episodes of the series Parker scored, expect one La La Land Records released (at the time I made the pilot score suite, the Quinn Martin Collection: Volume 1 had not been released). It was well worth my time. I only wish I had the flash drive space to do more of the series.
"Most Wanted"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iUci4-lzr4o
This suite covered the only episode Lawrence Rosenthal scored ("The Wolf Pack"). The series had barely any original scoring and they heavily tracked it with the few scores that were done. In particular, they loved tracking this score. I went through every episode and tried my best to record score from the episodes, so I could go back and replace parts with FX/SFX to make cleaner cues. In the process I found some cues I skipped from the episode because they were too SFX/FX heavy. I put a shit-load of time into this. I could have technically done a slightly better job, but enough was enough already. As is, you get some surprisingly FX/SFX free cues. I had to make some editorial decisions here and there since It appears some cues were not used as recorded and some not heard in full.
There is no E.T.A. on the suites for the other composers, though it's likely either Tatro or Markowitz will be next.
"The Rookies"
Composers: Allyn Ferguson & Jack Elliott
Suite #9: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MCa354ilVo4
The only suite outside of Elmer Bernstein, I did for the two composers from season one.
"Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For"
Composer: Mark Snow
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R5sZdc6T22g
This suite covers a TV movie done after the series ended.
The opening and closing cues that use the series' main theme, are quite lovely, but sadly the theme appears to be relegates to those and the rest of the score sounds it was taken from random episodes of "The X-Files". Sorry to Snow ,but this was NOT the way to score this.
NOTES:
I need to spend some time editing the "Most Wanted" suites and the mystery series I eluded to earlier and posted a tease for, so there may be weeks where only one two or even zero suites are posted.
As for the TV series scoring threads, there will be periods where I take a week off and don't do them continuously.
EDIT:
By the way, the mystery series will have it's first suite debut hopefully this month.
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What to expect from Monday's suites.
Looks like just two suites. The second and final "Palmerstown, U.S.A." suite, and a suite I have very much wanted to do since I discovered the score not that long ago. Let me just say this score should be right up the alley of Lukas and collectors who bought a certain release from Film Score Monthly.
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Since this is Lukas' website, he gets the honor of making a guess if he wants to. :-)
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This week's suites.
Plus a note about next week's suites.
"Palmerstown, U.S.A."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rq96T2qx6zI
Second and final suite I have for Al Schackman. These suites cover all episodes that are up I could do.
"Thief"
Composer: Ron Grainer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nUdWK2c5Jlk
This was a 1971 TV movie starring Richard Crenna and Angie Dickonson. It's actually good.
Beforehand all there was to hear from the score was a short suite some user made years ago. Here I present a large chunk of the score. The audio is a little wonky from being manipulated (presumably to avoid copyright detection), but it's still completely listenable.
If you bought his score to "The Omega Man", issued by Film Score Monthly, this should be right up your alley. It's not a brother or even a sister score, but the orchestration and the writing is clearly very influenced by "The Omega Man". It's a damn shame this score has yet to be released.
Note: One montage cue in casino is heavy with SFX. I decided to keep the cue rather than skip it, and I decided to do barely any editing to it, to preserve the writing and listening experience. It's a great cue and you'll understand why once you hear it.
Of special mention: score from it was tracked into the feature-length TV pilot for the short-lived series "Firehouse". The pilot had the same music editor, so I suspect he chose the tracked music. There is some other score in the pilot not from "Thief", but a good half of the tracked score it. And from the Department of Uncreativity: The end credits music is the end credits music from "Thief".
Hopefully some label hears this and wants to release it.
NEXT WEEK'S SUITES:
It'll be Tuesday and looks like only one suite at this point, but that is subject to change. Next week's suite answers the question: How do you do a Jerry Goldsmith suite without doing a Jerry Goldsmith score? By making a suite that is tied to him in two different wants, one being a theme that is half from … well, fans will know. Next week I present a suite with music I am not only sure Yavar has not heard, but isn't even aware of. Sure to be mentioned on a future Goldsmith Odyssey podcast.
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Well you’ve got me intrigued. Here’s hoping you can actually surprise me with something I’ve never heard of.
Yavar
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This week's suite.
I was sick Sunday -- my main-bulk editing day -- and didn't get up from 35 to 38 hours, so I couldn't complete a second suite.
"Blacke's Magic"
Composer: Joel McNeely
https://youtu.be/i7jWgiozXTQ
So the first connection to Jerry Goldsmith is that McNeely did additional scoring on "Air Force One".
Joel only scored two episodes and this suite covers both very fine scores. And in this suite Yavar and more knowledgeable score fans will find half a theme Jerry has used in at least three scores (off the top of my head). Of them, this seems to be a lift from the version heard in Goldsmith rejected score to "Gladiator" (the 192 boxing film).
And that is how you do a Jerry Goldsmith suite without using any Jerry Goldsmith score. :-)
I completed the scoring credits a month ago using loads on youtube, so I doubt Yavar even knew about this, coupled with the forgotten and obscure nature of the show. I wanted to cover the series, but the channel was copyrighted out of existence. I did, however, make three suites covering all the episodes David Bell scored, so that's at least salvaged in coming eventually.
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