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This week's mega batch of suites.
"Destination Space"
Composer: Nathan van Cleave
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbTzyCU0zRA
Suite of selected cues from this feature-length pilot for a series not picked up.
This was early on when I was still using Lalal A.I. to remove dialogue.
As you can see, it has the Star Wars text scroll ... many years before Star Wars.
High Point
Composer: John Addison
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKTYssRD-rY
Suite #2. The final suite.
Closing out his score for the original Canadian cut of the film. Lalal A.I. I was used, and I think at the time I had just discovered Easeus and used that a little to remove dialogue Lalal didn't catch. I might have also applied MVSep. Like I said for the first suite, score was tracked into the film, so I was able to do some salvage work.
"The Adventurer"
Composer: Paul B. Clay
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ECF08OItN9A
Suite #2 -- the final suite.
With these two suites I have covered all of this short-lived 1970's British adventure series.
Lalal A.I. and Easeus A.I. suites were used to remove dialogue.
Like the other suite, because of lots of tracking, I was able to do some salvage work to make cues better than A.I. programs alone.
You'll hear some repeated material from a action track here, because I couldn't find the whole track and couldn't figure out a way to edit and string it all together in suite #1, so I decided to leave it separated. Believe me, I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out!
"The Exile"
Composer: Michel Rubini
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4koTg8gRNzk
Suite #1.
Suite covering two or three episodes of a short-lived cold-war drama series. Best I can tell without checking all episodes, Rubini scored the entire series.
Lalal A.I. was used to remove some dialogue. No further suites intended at this time.
"Family Matters"
Composer: Bennett Salvay and Jesse Frederick
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cqEYjAe62h4
Suite #1.
Due to tracking of cues in episodes, I was able to repair and make some cues better and edit the length of the suite down so much that I fit all of their season one work into one suite.
Lalal A.I. was used, but primarily I used Easeus because it's really good at removing a lot of the laugh track in sitcom music.
"Lucan"
Composer: Fred Karlin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sG6fqP7uTMw
Suite #2.
AT the time I did the first suite -- for the pilot -- I thought he had only scored that episode, but I was wrong and he did one more. This suite covers this final effort by him for the show. J.J. Johnson took over after him.
Easeus and Lalal A.I. were used to remove dialogue.
"The FBI"
TRACK JOB
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbJfh7CFod4
Suite #1.
Two suites covering the train bomber episode from season one. At the time I started work on this, I thought the score was by Kaper -- who is credited for the score. However, upon work on i and re-checking episodes to do a salvage job on it, I found there appears to not only be no original scoring in the episode, but that it appears to largely be tracked with score by Markowitz. Once I figured it out, I was too far in to stop, so doing track job suites of episodes of series is NOT something you'll be seeing from me again.
I tried to preserve some edits, but in other places I used my own judgment to extend some cues with cleaner material cut from the edit work, so preserve more of the show's scoring. A small portion of the driving music for the train, was edited out of the episode and I could not find parts clean enough to use to re-insert. I included one brief bit edited out, but otherwise if I had not told you part of it was missing, you would not have known.
I decided to use A.I. photo editing websites to take Markowitz's credit off another episode, and place it underneath Kaper's to more accurately reflect what's in the episode.
Easeus and Lalal A.I. websites were utilized to remove dialogue and some light FX. I think I also used MVSep, but don't recall now.
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This week's mega batch of suites:
In Broad Daylight
Composer: Leonard Rosenman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hG41cTlK-U
Suite #2 -- the final suite covering this score.
"J.J. Starbuck""
Composer: Velton Ray Bunch
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WMgyZSnuyMY
Suite #3.
This is the final suite covering his work for the series. I didn't cover all his work, but the majority of it. It's also the final suite for the series (again, I didn't cover all of it, but most of it).
But while may be the last suite for this show, if I am still around next year to make suites, they will be a suite or two with a weird connection...
Leaving Normal
Composer: W. G. Snuffy Walden
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7P-1RXTpk6U
My own personal edit and arrangement of select cues from the score, from what I guess was a composer promo.
"Operation: Heartbeat"
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5KW7MrMBMZ0
This is a special Lalal A.I. salvage-job suite.
This is the feature-length pilot episode of "Medical Center".
"The D.A.: Murder One"
Composer: Frank Comstock
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VApMjMc6T0g
Suite covering selections from the feature-length pilot episode to the series "The D.A.". There wasn't much score, so this is pretty much it. As you can hear, some cues were not used in full in the pilot.
This is an old suite I've had a while, another one where I kept meaning to drop it but never did for what ever reason. I don't recall if Lalal was used at all.
"The FBI"
TRACK JOB
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qy722JxBAck
Suite #2.
Second and final suite covering the track-job score for the season one train bomber episode.
The Girl Hunters
Composer: Philip Green
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NDYkA3UlORA
Short suite covering select cues from the score. Not all of it was worth hearing.
The Generation Children
Composer: Jerry Styner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JKFzzwrcBv0
Suite #3.
Final suite covering this score. Now none of you need ever watch this pervert film.
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This week's mega batch of suites:
In Broad Daylight
Composer: Leonard Rosenman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hG41cTlK-U
Suite #2 -- the final suite covering this score.
"J.J. Starbuck""
Composer: Velton Ray Bunch
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WMgyZSnuyMY
Suite #3.
This is the final suite covering his work for the series. I didn't cover all his work, but the majority of it. It's also the final suite for the series (again, I didn't cover all of it, but most of it).
But while may be the last suite for this show, if I am still around next year to make suites, they will be a suite or two with a weird connection...
Leaving Normal
Composer: W. G. Snuffy Walden
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7P-1RXTpk6U
My own personal edit and arrangement of select cues from the score, from what I guess was a composer promo.
"Operation: Heartbeat"
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5KW7MrMBMZ0
This is a special Lalal A.I. salvage-job suite.
This is the feature-length pilot episode of "Medical Center".
"The D.A.: Murder One"
Composer: Frank Comstock
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VApMjMc6T0g
Suite covering selections from the feature-length pilot episode to the series "The D.A.". There wasn't much score, so this is pretty much it. As you can hear, some cues were not used in full in the pilot.
This is an old suite I've had a while, another one where I kept meaning to drop it but never did for what ever reason. I don't recall if Lalal was used at all.
"The FBI"
TRACK JOB
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qy722JxBAck
Suite #2.
Second and final suite covering the track-job score for the season one train bomber episode.
The Girl Hunters
Composer: Philip Green
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NDYkA3UlORA
Short suite covering select cues from the score. Not all of it was worth hearing.
The Generation Children
Composer: Jerry Styner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JKFzzwrcBv0
Suite #3.
Final suite covering this score. Now none of you need ever watch this pervert film.
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What to expect from Monday's suites:
The final batch of the year, another mega batch. You got your Elfman, you got your John Barry, you got your A-Team on, Thomas Magnum will stop by, a trip back in time with the Waltons, Pete Rugolo, and a special salvage job on a wonderful piece of original commercial music.
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Would you guys want a Delerue for the final batch, too? Let me know and I can try to rush it and get it done tomorrow.
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This week's suites -- the FINAL suites for 2024.
And some notes about 2025 suites if I make it.
"Family Dog"
Composers: Danny Elfman & Steve Bartek
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PqNf3CRH_KU
This was an episode of the 1980's "Amazing Stories". It's one of my personal favorite animated projects and I never tire of it. I still, to this day, when it's appropriate, use that line "Do I have dreams?! Do I have aspirations?! No, but I have a toilet bowl that's spring-time fresh!"
The popularity of this episode spawned a TV series that was scored by Bartek. The series re-vamped it some and now the dogs could talk, which was not the case in the original. And I swear back in the day with the original end credits, only Elfman was credited for the score.
Anyway, when Intrada Records did those volumes of scores from "Amazing Stories", they could not expand this score because tapes could not be found, so only the two awesome cues from one of the Music for a Darkened Theater compilations is what you can own right now.
But now I can do something about it in the interim until tapes are found. Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations.
"Magnum, pi"
Composer: Ian Freebairn-Smith
Suite #1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p1XesejGPY
Suite #2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNC2LZ3_hg
These are special salvage-job suites covering the entire feature-length pilot score.
People tend to forget that when the series originally began, it had a theme and episode scores by Ian Freebairn-Smith, who was quickly replaced as composer (as noted in my thread for the show, based upon other info', it appears he even had a scored tossed for his final effort) and his theme then bounced back and forth between a replacement theme by Mike Post until finally the theme was dropped all together. There's nothing inherently wrong with Ian's theme, it's even catchy and works, but Post' theme worked gangbusters and is iconic.
Also included is the disco music for the club. I recorded it all, copied and pasted cleaner parts over bad ones, since it was edited up and tracked, then used the A.I. programs to do the best I could with it. PLEASE NOTE: I do not know if the disco music is original music by Ina is something another composer did as source music, but in the chance it is by him, I had to include it.
Once again, Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations.
In re-runs the feature-length pilot was cut into two episodes. Then sometime later down the road for video release, Ian's opening music and end credits music were cut from the two-part pilot edit and replaced by Post's theme.
Muloorina
Composer: John Barry
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1dC2Vqsdg
In the past I did a shorter suite where I had to edit the hell out of the music, but this special redo suite fixes that and includes damn near every single bit of the score.
Yet again, Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations.
"The A-Team"
Composer: Mike Post and Pete Carpenter
Suite #4: https://file.io/lx1rVE5qUbYI (download link)
Suite #5: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nYWIY3-v6Tw
Once again, I continue threw season one of the show, only this year is different. These are the first two suites from the show where I was able to apply Lalal A.I. and Easeus A.I. to remove as much dialogue (and some FX) as possible. Previously, I was just editing up scores. Here, entire liens are dialogue are gone, singing while flying a plane is gone, and I did a little salvage work as one cue was edited up and tracked inside an episode.
Suite #4, while Fair Use, was still copyrighted and blocked world wide, so I had to host the video on a file site. One of the ways you can use intellectual property under Fair Use, is that it has to be transformative. The music has been divorced from the episodes, ran threw A.I. programs, edited up, and presented in a suite format -- it's transformative, but Google/YouTube doesn't care.
If I make it to next year and I am not busy working, there will be two more suites for the final batch of 2025 as well.
"The Waltons"
Composer: Alexander Courage
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0TnNl4YS98
Suite #1.
Another special salvage-job suite where the A.I. programs ere used to remove dialogue and some light FX.
Selections from all episodes Courage scored for season one.
Walgreens
Composer: Steve Ford
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HmkNgBYnfyA
And finally, to appropriately close out the year, this super special salvage-job work on a piece of commercial music I love.
This music played in the long-running ad campaign by Walgreens for commercials for a "town called Perfect". These commercials ran from the late 1990's into the early 2000's.
Not all the commercials are online, but I found all version with usable sound that are on YouTube (not easy, given not are were readily findable), recorded them, copied and pasted cleaner parts over bad ones, then ran the cue threw Easeus to remove dialogue. It's not perfect, but it's close enough for a cue from a musical world called Perfect.
The music is supposed to be by Steve Ford. I didn't want to pass that off as 100% fact, so I decided to not use his name in the video picture of video title.
Suites return February, 2025 like the previous two years.
2025 SUITES:
So, here are my intentions for 2025, should I make it threw this year:
More suites from series I already do suites for, so that means two more "Charlie's Angels", two more for "The A-Team", the starting of season two of "Remington Steele", the start of season two of "T.J. Hooker", and "Hart to Hart".
As usual, one Morton Stevens and one Mike Post & Pete Carpenter suites each month.
I don't mean this to sound morbid, but when Stu Philips has his 97th birthday a few weeks ago, it was kind of a shocking thing to realize he's 97 years old. I think I need to add him to the monthly suites roster. And given he contacted labels and tried to get interest in a release of "Fall Guy" going but no label was interested, I think maybe a suite from that show each month is needed.
Adult film scores will continue.
More western suites, more suites from shows I have only done one or two suites of, and suites for shows I have done none for yet.
Obscure projects, failed TV series, TV movies, even an episode of a short British documentary series.
Alex North, Frank Skinner, Dominic Frontiere, never know who will pop up. Well, Jerry Goldsmith will not pop up unless some super obscure never surfaced pilot surfaces.
And, of course, requests will be taken where possible (load availability being one factor, and projects that have too much FX to make it possible, and then bad sound quality).
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Edited my post to include intentions for 2025 suites.
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