"Excuse my Neanderthal stupidity (with all due respect to the descendands (sp) of the many many really bright Neanderthals out there..."
Stop trashing the poor defenseless Neanderthals. They had bigger brains on average than modern humans! And my guess is they would have enjoyed soundtracks, too, as they made tools, had culture, etc. I think they would have liked Bernard Herrman's music, and possibly Danny Elfman's, but I believe they would have thought Alex North's was a bit too harsh.
"Excuse my Neanderthal stupidity (with all due respect to the descendands (sp) of the many many really bright Neanderthals out there..."
Stop trashing the poor defenseless Neanderthals. They had bigger brains on average than modern humans! And my guess is they would have enjoyed soundtracks, too, as they made tools, had culture, etc. I think they would have liked Bernard Herrman's music, and possibly Danny Elfman's, but I believe they would have thought Alex North's was a bit too harsh.
I think you just agreed with Graham. Soundtrack fans are a dying breed of Neanderthals. For obvious reasons.
Stop trashing the poor defenseless Neanderthals. They had bigger brains on average than modern humans!
Smaller brains can be better than large. My dog understands the meaning of at least 50 human words. Some dogs know over 100 words. But I can't comprehend one word of dog.
"Rendezvous With Yesterday" (John Williams) "One Way To The Moon" (Lyn Murray) "End Of The World" (Lyn Murray) "The Day The Sky Fell In" (Paul Sawtell) "The Last Patrol" (Lyn Murray) "Crack Of Doom" (Robert Drasnin) "Revenge Of The Gods" (Leith Stevens) "Massacre" (Joseph Mullendore) "Reign Of Terror" (Leith Stevens) "Secret Weapon" (Paul Sawtell) "The Death Trap" (Robert Drasnin) "The Death Merchant" (George Duning)
As per the book The Time Tunnel: A History of the Television Program.
The music in general reflects the story, locale and era to a point as well as the voices/style of the composers. The original GNP release inexplicably omitted the familiar time travel music from Williams' pilot score that played at the beginning of almost every episode and that is very much included in this set along with some other Williams music from the pilot that didn't make it onto the GNP set. There are TT episodes set in the future that get "futuristic" music, episodes set in the Civil War, the War of 1812, at Custer's Last Stand etc. that have references to traditional melodies associated with those periods, there's an episode set around the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano that has some exotica/jungle music and there's an episode set at the battle of Troy that has a knockout sword and sandal epic score by Leith Stevens.
The music in general reflects the story, locale and era to a point as well as the voices/style of the composers. The original GNP release inexplicably omitted the familiar time travel music from Williams' pilot score that played at the beginning of almost every episode and that is very much included in this set along with some other Williams music from the pilot that didn't make it onto the GNP set. There are TT episodes set in the future that get "futuristic" music, episodes set in the Civil War, the War of 1812, at Custer's Last Stand etc. that have references to traditional melodies associated with those periods, there's an episode set around the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano that has some exotica/jungle music and there's an episode set at the battle of Troy that has a knockout sword and sandal epic score by Leith Stevens.
Does this show feature a lot of period-specific music when they travel to other eras?
Yes, of course, and that is the reason why this music is extremely more varied than in any other Irwin Allen TV series! And that's why this TV series and the music is my favorite of all Irwin Allen TV series. What connects all the episodes musically, sometimes more, sometimes less, is the music that plays in the plot scenes in the subterranean(Arizona) Project-TIC-TOC Time-Tunnel-complex. The respective place & time appropriate music is of course very different. You can of course orientate yourself musically to the plot of the individual episodes.
For example the first episode in which the scientists land on the TITANIC (1912): There John Williams has a very contemporary sounding theme for the TITANIC composed, in drastic contrast to the technical-utopian music for the TIC-TOC Time-Tunnel-complex. The "TITANIC-Trot" was even re-recorded by BSX for a Titanic-oriented compilation CD.
For the next episode, which takes place(at that time) in the not too distant future, but in space; Lyn Murray then composed a very outer-space-oriented score. This is one of my score favorites, and I can't wait to hear this music for the first time in over 40 years without dialogue and sound effects.
If you are interested in a certain score, you can also watch the episodes on Youtube. Here for example ep.2: On Way To The Moon
If you consider that the actions range from primeval times, where only dinosaurs lived, to millions of years in the future, where a human-collective-civilization exists (similar to the BORG from STAR TREK), then I think the composers involved definitely had one great pleasure to be able to compose such different scores. I am pleased to be able to read two CD booklets to see whether there are any comments from some composers about their work on this series.
I still can't believe that I really get a complete release of all the scores from this TV series after the excellent but not complete TLOTG and VTTBOTS CD sets.
Does this show feature a lot of period-specific music when they travel to other eras?
Yes, of course, and that is the reason why this music is extremely more varied than in any other Irwin Allen TV series! And that's why this TV series and the music is my favorite of all Irwin Allen TV series.
I just hope that the period music is not indexed with the dramatic music. That for me is what ruins a score such as "Don't Open Till Doomsday" or "Next Stop Willoughby." Either way, I will buy this, but it sounds like I may have to do some surgery on it to make it Onya-friendly.
The futuristic and exotica scores sound exciting, though.
I just hope that the period music is not indexed with the dramatic music. That for me is what ruins a score such as "Don't Open Till Doomsday" or "Next Stop Willoughby." Either way, I will buy this, but it sounds like I may have to do some surgery on it to make it Onya-friendly.
The futuristic and exotica scores sound exciting, though.
Here are the respective dates of the action time from the 12 episodes:
"Rendezvous With Yesterday" (John Williams) - 1912 "One Way To The Moon" (Lyn Murray) - 1978 "End Of The World" (Lyn Murray) - 1910 "The Day The Sky Fell In" (Paul Sawtell) - 1941 "The Last Patrol" (Lyn Murray) - 1815 "Crack Of Doom" (Robert Drasnin) - 1883 "Revenge Of The Gods" (Leith Stevens) - 1184 "Massacre" (Joseph Mullendore) - 1876 "Reign Of Terror" (Leith Stevens) - 1793 "Secret Weapon" (Paul Sawtell) - 1956 "The Death Trap" (Robert Drasnin) - 1861 "The Death Merchant" (George Duning) - 1863
It's a shame that the episode 24 - CHASE THROUGH TIME(1,000,000 A.D. to 1,000,000 B.C.) didn't have an original score. But the library music pieces(e.g. Garden of Evil by Bernard Herrmann) also worked very well.
When the score of "Rendezvous With Yesterday" was first released, I wasn't happy either that I couldn't skip the fictional contemporary Titanic-Trot. The John Williams score was unfortunately only available as a 3-part suite on the old GNP CRESCENDO CD. But back then, of course, that was better than having nothing at all.
The original GNP release inexplicably omitted the familiar time travel music from Williams' pilot score that played at the beginning of almost every episode and that is very much included in this set along with some other Williams music from the pilot that didn't make it onto the GNP set.
There were also surprising performance differences between the music as prepared for the pilot versus the final broadcast episode.
I still can't believe that I really get a complete release of all the scores from this TV series after the excellent but not complete TLOTG and VTTBOTS CD sets.
In what way was The Land of the Giants not complete? I don’t own the box set CD, so I don’t know the answer. Is any of Williams’ music missing?
In what way was The Land of the Giants not complete? I don’t own the box set CD, so I don’t know the answer. Is any of Williams’ music missing?
I'm not the biggest fan of TLOTG series, but I bought this CD set and I'm happy with it. Only musical material that has survived can be released. And unfortunately in this case not every piece of music survived the last 50 years. It is sad, but couldn't be changed. I trust that LLL has released all the music, that was usable in the best possible way for this CD set.
And I'm glad that all episode scores of my favorite series TTT apparently survived completely and can now be released on CD.
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