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Thanks MRAUDIO...I must be a complete idiot for not seeing this at SAE...where I order stuff from all the time!!
Just ordered Stevens' GREAT WHITE/ACT OF PIRACY!
WOW and also ordered -- DARK OF THE SUN --which just popped up as available!! Geez, got to find some work -- now I'm broke, again! Ah, it's worth it to have such great music!!
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Stevens' score to Jerry Lewis' Smorgasbord aka Cracking Up (1983) is one of the coolest, hippest, jazziest comedy scores of them all. That would be a great one for a release that would probably be a whole new discovery for Stevens fans considering that so few saw the film.
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Apr 25, 2009 - 5:47 PM
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Bach-Choi
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His "Gilligan" scores were fun, especially "The Producer", where the castaways mount their take on "Hamlet." A great Five-0 score of his is season four's "Highest Castle, Deepest Grave", which, unusually for the series, relies heavily on strings. "How To Steal A Masterpiece" features two pianos and what sounds like double woodwinds, while the 5-0 two-parter, "Nine Dragons" is among Stevens best work for series TV, with some terrific symphonic-style brass writing. Another really fun score of his is "Poor Devil, a 1973 NBC-TV film starring Jack Klugman and Sammy Davis Jr. He also composed a fine theme for the short-lived ABC firefighter drama, "Code Red." "Smorgasboard" (aka, "Cracking Up") is another cool, fun score with some very memorable tunes, the music blending well with Jerry Lewis' brand of physical comedy and directing style.
Favorite Stevens musical moment: "Bo Knows Mail", mail delivery montage in "Hardly Working."
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Apr 26, 2009 - 1:27 PM
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MRAUDIO
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I've never gotten that silly-sounding clarinet/trombone variation of the "Smorgasboard" theme out of my head - and can visualize the scene for which it was written as I type this. Mort could write some chilling stuff, like cues in 5-0's "Hookman", "The Bells Toll At Noon", No Bottles, No Cans, No People" and "The Listener", but could alternately write very catchy, light-hearted things like the aforementioned "Smorgasboard" and the theme to "Apple's Way" as well as make beautifully crafted arrangements for John Williams and the Boston Pops and performers such as Sammy Davis Jr. I'm sorry he never got the big film opportunities. He had soooo much music in him.
Well said - always glad to see this thread come back.
Also, I wanted to mention Stevens' score to the Jerry Lewis film, SLAPSTICK OF ANOTHER KIND - a terrible movie, but a fine score by Mr. Stevens.
I would like to see Varese release and expand this one on CD - there was a lot of music missing from the original 1984 Varese LP.
The other day, I got thinking of Mort's music for the 1980 TV Movie, FUGITIVE FAMILY, that starred Richard Crenna - I taped this movie many years ago on VHS - really nice themes and a bit of suspense music that would make a fine CD that would showcase classic Stevens moments...:-)
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62 what did he die from, pretty young actually.
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Yes, a great *album* and it represents the show's first season well.
It certainly does - though obviously it's too short 
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If ever there was a man deserving of a boxed set of his TV output, it's Stevens. (I certainly wouldn't turn down sets on Grusin, Goldenberg, or Melle either!)
By the way, the "Call To Danger" cut on the HAWAII 5-O album was originally composed as the theme for a busted pilot with that title with Peter Graves that was probably produced around '66-'67 but was blown off with some other CBS pilots (Schifrin's BRADDOCK included) in the summer 0f '68. It was another series built around the government scooping some unsuspecting civilian up to help in some criminal case where their particular talent could be of help.
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