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 Posted:   Feb 8, 2020 - 12:14 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I forgot to say: Out favorite mystery person, Fish Man, has several suites of scoring ripped from the show on his page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCEoz8yJmr4VN0h7QXH8x4w/search?query=%22Six+Million+Dollar+Man%22

Including the Gil Melle TV movies which I was not able to cover. And a number of suites to other Melle scores.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 17, 2020 - 7:47 PM   
 By:   jmarc   (Member)

Out of curiosity, has it been confirmed the scores for Six Million Dollar Man even exist?

 
 Posted:   Feb 17, 2020 - 9:42 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Out of curiosity, has it been confirmed the scores for Six Million Dollar Man even exist?


I don't think we've heard a word about it, for the studio vaults or the composers' personal tapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Nelson#Breakthrough_and_afterwards

"On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Oliver Nelson among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire."

I hope it was only his jazz album tapes that were burned up, and not his television scores. But Universal wouldn't tell us about it either way. The studios always play down their losses after every vault fire, to the point of not being entirely honest about it.

In theory, Oliver Nelson's estate could do what Joe Harnell did, and sell us a wonderful set of CDs from the composer's own tapes. But it's also possible that Nelson's widow went out to the garage in late-1975 and said "I want to park my car in here. All these dusty boxes can go in the trash." We don't know, but in my opinion that's very possible.

So it could be that all TSMDM tapes exist, or that none of them do.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 7:53 AM   
 By:   Sartoris   (Member)

Time to bump this SMDM thread which got no more feedback for 3 years.

Would there be anything new on the issue that could feed the hope that this music isn't buried in the grave?

This is SMDM 50 years anniversary this year!
About time this music comes out a way or another.

 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 8:00 AM   
 By:   steffromuk   (Member)

All I know is that LLL has it on their "hope to do" list

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 20, 2023 - 1:57 PM   
 By:   Sartoris   (Member)

One question haunts me about the Bluray DTS HD encoding.

Does anybody here around own that Bluray set of SMDM? Or any foreign Bluray edition?
How has the sound quality on the Bluray set been improved, if any, compared to the standard DVD set edition?



 
 
 Posted:   Nov 26, 2023 - 1:06 AM   
 By:   jmarc   (Member)

I have the Time Life dvd set but the more my tvs improve, the worse it looks. I’ll have to get the new set.

 
 Posted:   Nov 26, 2023 - 11:33 AM   
 By:   DJS   (Member)

While it's nowhere near as melodic or memorable as The SMDM, BSX released a new Joe Harnell Bionic Woman volume worthy to any fan starving for Bionic music.



ASSAULT ON THE PRINCESS
1. Jaime Sommers, Card Dealer (0:49)
2. Jaime and Lucky (3:24)
3. Searching For The Iceman (5:04)
4. Trouble On “The Princess” (4:38)
5. Search For The Energy Cells (5:02)
6. Lucky’s Day (1:04)
BIO-FEEDBACK
7. Hot Coals (1:54)
8. Water Test (5:18)
9. The Kiss (3:10)
10. Tear Gas Run (3:04)
JAIME’S SHIELD-Pt. 1
11. Jaime The Cop (5:03)
12. Following Arlene (6:58)
13. Police Academy (4:13)
14. The Red Van (5:41)
15. Graduation (0:56)
THE OVER-THE-HILL SPY
16. Jaime and Quinn (9:27)
17. New Disguise and Backstage Chaos (3:49)
18. Bomb Search (1:57)
19. Pocket Watch and The War Is Over (5:57)
Total Time: 78:18

https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases/products/the-bionic-woman-assault-on-the-princess-bio-feedback-jaimes-shield-the-over-the-hill-spy-music-from-the-television-series-1

 
 Posted:   Nov 26, 2023 - 5:40 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

While it's nowhere near as melodic or memorable as The SMDM, BSX released a new Joe Harnell Bionic Woman volume worthy to any fan starving for Bionic music.
https://buysoundtrax.myshopify.com/collections/new-releases/products/the-bionic-woman-assault-on-the-princess-bio-feedback-jaimes-shield-the-over-the-hill-spy-music-from-the-television-series-1



The download version has the digital booklet, and with bonus tracks it runs 83:55. I was already window shopping in iTunes and grabbed it just now, due to DJS's timely and well-placed announcement.

If you use the iTunes store: it filed the booklet (only) under Joe Harnell on my computer, which gave me a start. I looked around for the music files and found them in the Compilations folder for some reason.

But it's all here and it's excellent. "Boarding the Princess" is Jaime's fantastic character theme, backed by really good, swingin' improv jazz. Breezy, upbeat, cool— a day in the life of Jaime Sommers. I'm liking it. Now "Jaime and Lucky" is bringing in those syncopated triangle notes I like so much. smile

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 26, 2023 - 8:39 PM   
 By:   ANDREW   (Member)

This volume is right up there with Joe Harnell’s KILL,OSCAR and BIGFOOT scores which have already been released…as anyone reading this would know!
Thankfully his wife and daughter are working with BSX and Ford Thaxton to get this music out there. I truly thought/hope/wished that this 50th anniversary year of SMDM would see a soundtrack release….but I’m not holding my breath anymore. While I know rererereleases of anything with Williams, Goldsmith and Horner attached sell high quantities(which is what ANY business needs to do), personally am sick of titles getting pressed again because 7 minutes of extra music was found…..while TONS of other titles drift to oblivion. Again..it’s business, which I understand….but Harnells music and Olver Nelson’s scores are outstanding, compared to the crap,that even gets a digital release these days. We can but dream….

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 26, 2023 - 11:40 PM   
 By:   Sartoris   (Member)

I totally second this and couldn't have said it better.
Be sure you are not alone Andrew.

Plus that I like when somebody else but me bumps any such previous SMDM thread with new statements or contribution.

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2023 - 11:45 AM   
 By:   Captain_Kaos   (Member)

Out of curiosity, has it been confirmed the scores for Six Million Dollar Man even exist?


I don't think we've heard a word about it, for the studio vaults or the composers' personal tapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Nelson#Breakthrough_and_afterwards

"On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Oliver Nelson among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire."

I hope it was only his jazz album tapes that were burned up, and not his television scores. But Universal wouldn't tell us about it either way. The studios always play down their losses after every vault fire, to the point of not being entirely honest about it.

In theory, Oliver Nelson's estate could do what Joe Harnell did, and sell us a wonderful set of CDs from the composer's own tapes. But it's also possible that Nelson's widow went out to the garage in late-1975 and said "I want to park my car in here. All these dusty boxes can go in the trash." We don't know, but in my opinion that's very possible.

So it could be that all TSMDM tapes exist, or that none of them do.


Yes, but Doug, Mike, MV and Co. could us and themselves really do a favor: make some kind of inventory in the Universal vaults, the TV-section in particular and check, what's there and what's not.

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2023 - 1:47 PM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)



Yes, but Doug, Mike, MV and Co. could us and themselves really do a favor: make some kind of inventory in the Universal vaults, the TV-section in particular and check, what's there and what's not.


I'm sure that would be an enormous undertaking. It's not their inventory and I'm sure they have more than enough on their respective plates on any given day. I'm also sure that Universal knows exactly what they have. And if they don't, it's on them to do an accounting of their own inventory. I wouldn't think it would be necessary for outside people to do it for them.

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2023 - 5:35 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

I'm sure that would be an enormous undertaking. It's not their inventory and I'm sure they have more than enough on their respective plates on any given day. I'm also sure that Universal knows exactly what they have. And if they don't, it's on them to do an accounting of their own inventory. I wouldn't think it would be necessary for outside people to do it for them.


That's right. We all remember what happened when the 2-inch reels of Superman were discovered in an underground vault in Kansas. Once recognized, they were barcoded and logged into Warner's inventory.

From that point on, the studio always knows where a tape is. When it gets moved, the barcode is scanned at the new storage location, and the records stay up to date.

So if TSMDM tapes exist, and if they were ever barcoded, then Universal could probably find them in a flash. If not, one would hope they have a clerk somewhere whose job is to find and barcode uncataloged tape boxes.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2023 - 9:35 PM   
 By:   GladVlad   (Member)

In the list published by The NYT, it seems that it's the jazz and rock master tapes that got burned. Though the names of Oliver Nelson, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone and Quincy Jones also appears.
I think if LLL or BSX had the chance to put their hands on some master tapes, it would have already been published.
Unless there is also a copyright problem or tapes got lost.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2023 - 10:47 PM   
 By:   Sartoris   (Member)

What haunts me the most is that nobody had never gotten the opportunity to clarify the issue here or there once for good, or I badly missed something...

Why no transparency from Universal about the issue?

I wish some professional like Jon Burlingame, with possible good connection with Universal music dept, while visting the board or other internet public website, could have at least attested that these tapes have been actually preserved or not.

The SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN show is entering is 50th Anniversary, a Bluray complete series set has just been released....so it' s really time to know better about the matter.

Eventually, I always hoped that legendary actor Lee Majors could have helped to resolve the issue and if I'd ever had the chance to meet him at some film fair, this would be the first thing I would ask to him.

I want this, and would pay big bucks to have it.



 
 
 Posted:   Nov 28, 2023 - 8:52 AM   
 By:   jmarc   (Member)

I wish someone would at least do a re-recording of some of the music. I remember getting the Superman symphony recording and it was quite a treat since that’s all that was available at that point.

 
 Posted:   Nov 28, 2023 - 9:20 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Before we start clamoring for a re-recording, we should at least get some official statement on the condition of the tapes.

On the one hand we get told the scoring tapes were not part of the fire losses, but then First Breath talked to one of the "Miami Vice" composers who said otherwise. When this was pointed out, one of the label heads (I wont' say who -- no need to poke anybody here) that brought up scoring tapes were not part of the losses, did not reply.

Like pointed out before, the studio hasn't been honest or forthcoming in the past about such things.

Hell, I'd like a list of lost a scoring masters assets. If it's gone, it's gone -- better to know than continue speculating. Now that doesn't mean everything is gone for any series that suffered a loss; back-ups may be other places. They may be mis-catalogued tapes elsewhere (is it possible there is still uncatalogued tapes?). Estates and universities may have donated materials. Duped copies may be afoot (remember Len Engel). And, the fire may not have consumed everything in the vicinity before it was put out.




My old Len Engel thread:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=111070&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Nov 28, 2023 - 9:34 AM   
 By:   Captain_Kaos   (Member)

Before we start clamoring for a re-recording, we should at least get some official statement on the condition of the tapes.

On the one hand we get told the scoring tapes were not part of the fire losses, but then First Breath talked to one of the "Miami Vice" composers who said otherwise. When this was pointed out, one of the label heads (I wont' say who -- no need to poke anybody here) that brought up scoring tapes were not part of the losses, did not reply.

Like pointed out before, the studio hasn't been honest or forthcoming in the past about such things.

Hell, I'd like a list of lost a scoring masters assets. If it's gone, it's gone -- better to know than continue speculating. Now that doesn't mean everything is gone for any series that suffered a loss; back-ups may be other places. They may be mis-catalogued tapes elsewhere (is it possible there is still uncatalogued tapes?). Estates and universities may have donated materials. Duped copies may be afoot (remember Len Engel). And, the fire may not have consumed everything in the vicinity before it was put out.


That's why, I prefer an inventory, because I do not think, that Universal knows, what's there and what's not, especially after one (?), two (?), three (?) fires. Maybe nothing is left, maybe a little bit, maybe everything. But there is hope: the fire was in a part of the studio where mostly the masters of the Universal Music Group (UMG) were stored, not Universal Studios' stuff! These are two different companies. A lot of masters are lost (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Louis Armstrong, The Who..., but I think there are backups), but maybe nothing of the TV-stuff ended up in smoke.

 
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