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What to expect from Monday's suites: Murder and more Kolchak.
Also, I started work this week on the first episode of "Destry" that Goldsmith scored. Unfortunately, a number of cues cannot be salvaged as they were not tracked into any other episodes, but others have been fixed. One cue in particular has whistling over it until the last about ten seconds, then sounds effects over that; the salvage job has removed all whistling, fixed the end, and added a tiny bit of the beginning which was dropped from the episode (were talking like one second, so not real surprise here).
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This week's scary suites.
"Murder in Three Acts"
Composer: Alf Clausen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1IXeIG-q1UY
A TV movie based off a book.
"Kolchak: The Night Stalker"
Composer: Gil Melle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j6qU7lA5m6w
Suite #2.
In this suite I wanted to focus on the synth sound/maybe electric guitar effect that he used for shaky runs of WAAAHH WAH WAH WAHwahwah WAAAAAHHHHH sounds. Do to the fixed amount of score on the obscure promo, I could only do what could do, so it's not a perfect suite by any means.
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What to expect from Monday's suites: murder, and an October surprise.
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This week's suites.
"Kolchak: The Night Stalker"
Composer: Gil Melle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iu_e4cNRlMU
Suite #3. This suite is the final suite to cover his more jazzy material, while also transitioning some to the spooky material. Halloween will see a long suite of spooky music.
Clash of Loyalties
Composer: Ron Goodwin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NCxUXjKyhPE
Every October sure enough, some political dolt bring out the "October surprise" might be war. So, surprise -- war suite!
This was a film with … a colorful background. This is the American title. For more information on the film, see this thread:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=150091&pageID=1
What makes my suite more special than another suite you'd find on YouTube -- aside from my fairly meticulous editing -- is that I did two things:
One: I found some of the score was tracked inside the film, so I went back and pasted cleaner parts over bad ones, to make better-sounding cues.
Two: I discovered something while recording the audio to the film -- the fantastic end credits cue has an edit in it and score is missing. Why? Who knows. BUT the documentary discussed in the thread linked above, used the end credits for its end credits and low and behold: the edit was not there! So I copied the missing section and pasted it back into the cleaner film recording and you're welcome.
"Murder, She Wrote"
Composer: John Addison
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wHUnP0dat30
This suite covers his score for the pilot episode -- the only episode he scored.
NOTE:
The final two suites tripped copyright, but the copyright owner allows use. Never mind both fit Fair Use copyright law … Google/YouTube ignores that law. If you are region restricted, you can use a proxy website to get around it. Example: https://proxysite.pro
Enter: youtube.com
It will load. Search my user name (tharpdevenport) and you will find any blocked videos.
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What to expect from Monday's special Halloween suites:
Witches, spiders, and Kolchak. Oh my.
Guaranteed to be a thriller. Or two.
And the "witches" one is an extra special suite. From a TV series that would track score, I used cleaner parts from what few episodes this composer scored, to bring you the best presentation of the unreleased scoring as possible.
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Today's Halloween-themed suites.
Of course Halloween is going to be funky.
"Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo"
Composer: Mundell Lowe
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o6b21VuqShM
Man … this was really just not good. Enjoy the score apart from it.
"Kolchak: The Night Stalker"
Composer: Gil Melle
Suite #4:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=82N1XfyTusw
Suite #5:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KkYlX5AY61Y
"Tabitha"
Composer: Shorty Rogers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TyQa0WL058Y
So, decades ago the TV series "Bewitched" had a spin-off series where her daughter is now a young woman working a job. It didn't go well. It had not one, but two pilots, as the first one failed. Then it only lasted half a season before being canned. It also went through four or five composers before settling on Rogers. And they must have seen the end coming, because even though Rogers was credited, I'd say about the last three or four episodes have no original score and it's all tracked.
This is a special suite: I used cleaner parts from what few episodes this composer scored, to bring you the best presentation of the unreleased scoring as possible. Sadly, some stuff was either still not totally salvageable or cues were not ever heard in-full in the episodes.
I guess its possible some of this was tracked from prior contributing composers, but I am not going to take the time to check.
"Thriller"
Composer: Morton Stevens
As it just wouldn't be Halloween without "Thriller", continuing the journey through season one...
Suite #3:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANWLCFfdPVs
Suite #4:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=39sOSlY3KT4
Soo ... would you all like a trick or a treat tomorrow in this thread for Halloween day?
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Here is your treat for Halloween -- some more suites! With a bonus scary story of what happened to me last night -- the night before Halloween.
"Kolchak: The Night Stalker"
Composer: Gil Melle
Suite #6 (the spooky suite; you can play this at your front door when handing out candy):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=625T_AWd9LU
Suite #7:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8K9n-kknn7c
This is the final Melle suite. Next October will cover other contributing composers.
"Thriller"
Composer: Morton Stevens
Suite #5:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=i3pGCMGMQDA
Suite #6 (spooky suite length of … 911):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xLrB8oRXkmw
And with these final two suites, I have covered all of Stevens efforts for season one. If I am still alive next October, see you then for starting season two.
The suite that covers "Pigeons from Hell": I found out something while trying to re-insert the end credits into the score -- the end credits edit presents the score as originally recorded. In the episode the wordless female singing is faded out after one or two builds, then the orchestra is building by itself. The end credits shows Stevens recorded the cue with wordless female singing building with the cues to the end. I decided, because of the heavy FX of pigeons, to go with the end credits original intent recording an dumped the in-episode fade-out job.
SPOOKY STORY:
So, last night I am exercising alone, minding my own business, no one to talk to, trying not to talk to anyone. It's dark, park lights are on.
Two cars in the lot. Parked side-by-side. One of them leaves. Then a few minutes later the one remaining drives over, parks next to my vehicle and proceed to play loud rock music, followed by loud awful rap music. I go over to my vehicle to drink some water. While doing so the music stops and I see the door open. I lose track of the guy.
I turn to go back and he's messing with my exercise equipment.
I ask him to stop (politely) and he keeps insisting to try to lift my exercise weight once. I go ahead and let him, hoping it would all stop.
Then he starts talking about God. I tell him its nothing personal, I just want to be left alone and not talk to anybody. He keeps babbling. I could smell some kind of drug being smoked from his car when he was in there.
Then he starts telling me he is God. I said what ever he wanted to hear, just to try and not set him off -- it was obvious he was looking to harm somebody and was searching for a reason.
Keeps telling me he is God and that he gave me life and he can take it away. Threated to kill me a few times that way. Asked me if I was Israeli (I guess if I had said "Yes" that he would have killed me right then and there). Mind you, he's doing this about twelve inches from me -- he's really close.
I have an old stupid phone (if today's phones are "smart", then my old 1990's phone is "stupid" -- a phrase I made up) I use as an alarm clock and 911 calls (since it's Federally mandated you still be able to dial threw to 911 even if you don't have phone service). I keep trying to call 911, but it's not connecting for some reason.
He drives out, comes back in, parks further away and I an still hear him ranting about how he's God and he can take away my life. I finally get 911, tell them and they are sending a police officer. "God' leaves. A cop (ONE cop) shows up about fifteen to twenty minutes later. Says the threats of taking my life have no legal recourse (there is such a thing as verbal assault -- what he did constitutes it; battery is when you actually lay your hands upon somebody). He gets my info', a partial plate number and description of the guy and car, then me -- the VICTIM -- gets told the park is close and asks me to leave. Just … wow.
(I can't tell you how many times I have seen two to eight cops dealing with one homeless guy minding his own business, but if somebody says they are God and wants to kill you, that gets you one cop)
Says they'll be on the look out for him. Does get the giant empty beer tin can on the ground the guy dumped (for finger prints).
So, in other words, nothing probably happened. This was beyond coco for Coco Puffs -- he's going to kill somebody and probably soon. He's drugged up, drunk, and thinks he's God.
Well, I'll be there exercising again. Maybe he'll come back and kill me. We'll see.
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Thank you, Sartoris, and others who enjoy the suites.
So, November will be my last month for suites (just like last year), so I might as well speak some about what to expect. First, what to expect from Monday's suites:
We return to the first of the final three "Serpico" suites, and with one last suite I finish the work of Post & Carpenter on "240-Robert" (2024 will see more "240-Robert" suites from other composers).
November's suites will of course have the three "Serpico" suites as aforementioned, but also a theme of "cold" running a little throughout. Some of the composers to expect: Brad Fiedel, Lalo Schifrin, and Stu Philips.
Then on the Monday the 27th, I present the final batch for the year: I close out with five suites; two Christmas-themed suites and three suites that'll stuff your nostalgia stocking.
One or two small batches in January, then regular suites return sometime February. I need time to build up some more supply, plus people are on holiday.
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Just an often requested TV series title.
It's not "The Young Lawyers" -- I haven't even seen that show yet.
And as I am spending November and December enjoying myself listening to Bob Bailey as "Johnny Dollar", I figured it's time to give an update on the project. Some time back -- maybe a year or two ago now -- I said I was working on the score for the Bailey run, using cleaner parts of cues to salvage as many MuTel Music yumminess, so here's the update:
I am averaging three five-parters a day, Monday through Friday. I figure with that, and trying to listen to one episode every day in 2024, I can complete his run maybe in March. Then for November and December I would start work on completing cues. I do once in a while work on cues.
I don't know yet how I will handle it in 2025. Maybe release cues individually as completed, or makes some suites in a fictional story listening order.
I have no idea if the guy after Bailey had episodes with the same library cues.
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This week's suites.
"240-Robert"
Composers: Mike Post & Pete Carpenter
https://youtube.com/watch?v=znbhAW1bOSg
Suite #4. Final suite which together with the other suites, covers all episodes the two did for the series.
2024 will see select suites by certain other composers for the show, then I am done. I am not covering the whole series.
"Serpico"
Stock Music
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qQgXkNjgCgk
This suite comprises source cues, and unidentified scoring.
This suite opens with a cool cue. The cue uses the Bernstein theme, so it's not tracked from another series, however, it's not from any of the episodes I covered, and it's clearly not from "Strike!" as it is stylistically not fitting. It's entirely possible some partial original scoring was done; this happened on other shows, such as "Gilligan's Island" and "Hawaii Five-O", where episodes that were track-job efforts, had a small amount of original scoring recorded for them.
A couple of cues are obviously classical music pieces, but I have no idea if they were recorded for the series or from a library. One sounds like fake piano.
Johnny Mnemonic
Composer: Brad Fiedel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7b6anveEg
Suite of some of the unreleased scoring from the film. Aside from one obscure soundtrack that includes a one cue (a little over two minutes), there has been no release of the scoring. I have no idea what the source of these cues are, but they are SFX free and very obscure. I have shared everything I have, shoved into one suite.
It's possible that one cue is in this suite, but for the life of me, I could not find a sample anywhere!
2024 will see one to s high as three suites by Fiedel, then I am done with titles by the composer. Unless he contacts me personally, has some cues from a project and wants me to make a suite, I am done. And that scenario seems about as likely as Ed coming back from the grave and giving me a Publisher's Clearance House check.
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A REQUEST FOR HELP:
FUNDING MET -- NO LONGER SEEKING HELP
Preface: I have approval from Lukas to do this, under the condition that it's not a regular thing.
As readers know, I have struggled for quite a while now and am broke and live in my car. I had some part-time gig work for most of 2023, but lost it.
My ability to do suites and TV series thread is contingent on having the car to live in and keep my laptop, as rain and humidity will destroy it.
My front passenger tire is literally falling apart and now metal wires are sticking out all around the side. The whole tire is smooth, barely any tread to be seen. It's going to blow and leave me stranded where ever it blows. Not only do I not have the money for a tow or new tire, but having it towed will not work; the cops will have it towed and I will lose my "home".
I am at the mercy of members who care. Or at a minimum don't necessarily care, but do want to see the suites continue.
With that in mind, I am trying to fund for a new tire. Not a used tire that'll leave me in the same situation in a few months. It took me two years to get that part-time work. I don't get it: I have a clean background, don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, intelligent and well spoken, polite, nothing remarkable in my employment history -- I don't know why it's so tough to get work. They just won't reply (six jobs applied to in just the last two weeks, for example; no replies).
The cost of a new tire, having it put on, old tire disposal, taxes, comes to approximately $160. I don't have phone service and can't give a precise amount. This is from memory from earlier this year when I had some money and replaced another bad tire.
And no -- no other bad tires, just this one. It was the last one to replace, then I got screwed over by a mechanic which cost me all the money I had saved for it, then I lost my work.
I am trying to get a camera to take a photo of the tire. I assume people will want proof.
I can accept MoneyGram (this is free for me to pick up from Wal-Mart), Western Union (they charge more on your end, though), and a USPS money order (but that'll take way longer). I have no other means to accept money.
I don't know what I can offer in return, I guess if you had a suite request, even though I was taking November and December off for myself, I could rush one into production and try to have it out next Monday of the Monday after that.
FUNDING MET -- NO LONGER SEEKING HELP
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What to expect from Monday's suites:
Another "Serpico" suite, one suite for the "cold" theme (this time cold-blooded murder), and two special suites for Veteran's Day.
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