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Nov 21, 2019 - 10:13 AM
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Broughtfan
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Hey, Stu.
Been going through your book "Stu Who?" attempting to find the answer to the question of who made the first "McCloud" (S4-7 Larson theme) arrangement (which I love...it's so right!), which I always assumed was you because of your long-term association with Larson on this, Galactica, Switch, Quincy, etc. Though Frank Devol's first McCloud effort "Butch Cassidy Rides Again" opens the season in which Larson's theme is first heard I understand that main title themes, at least in those days, were often recorded sometime in advance of episode scoring sessions (certainly true of Universal TV during the Stanley Wilson Virginian/Ironside-era) Also, I know that "Switch" was reworked in S2 into more of an action-adventure show and was wondering what was the show's producers directive to you for transforming the Larson theme (from laid back jazz sound to a much more exciting, driving sound)?
Hope all is well with you.
P.S. - Been enjoying hearing your work on "The Monkees," which has been airing Sunday afternoons on ME-TV. Sounds like you had a blast doing it.
Bill (from Florida)
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I love the McCloud theme. Stu's book reveals that Elmer Bernstein said he'd have loved to have done a McCloud, which I always thought was both cool and awesome all at the same time 
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Nov 21, 2019 - 1:43 PM
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rerunkr
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Hey, Stu.
Been going through your book "Stu Who?" attempting to find the answer to the question of who made the first "McCloud" (S4-7 Larson theme) arrangement (which I love...it's so right!), which I always assumed was you because of your long-term association with Larson on this, Galactica, Switch, Quincy, etc. Though Frank Devol's first McCloud effort "Butch Cassidy Rides Again" opens the season in which Larson's theme is first heard I understand that main title themes, at least in those days, were often recorded sometime in advance of episode scoring sessions (certainly true of Universal TV during the Stanley Wilson Virginian/Ironside-era) Also, I know that "Switch" was reworked in S2 into more of an action-adventure show and was wondering what was the show's producers directive to you for transforming the Larson theme (from laid back jazz sound to a much more exciting, driving sound)?
Hope all is well with you.
P.S. - Been enjoying hearing your work on "The Monkees," which has been airing Sunday afternoons on ME-TV. Sounds like you had a blast doing it.
Bill (from Florida)
I did not join the McCloud team until 1974 so I had no connection to the theme music or the arrangements done before I came on board. In the '70s, the musicians union insisted that every season the theme be rerecorded, or the musicians be re-payed. If I remember correctly I did a new arrangement one season. I can be pretty sure that the theme was recorded before episode one since it was written by Larson.
Glenn wanted Switch to be light comedy. The Network and Eddie Albert didn't. So the original version of the theme was reworked into more of an action theme as was the entire show. I only worked on the first season of Switch. Have no idea what happened to the theme in season two.
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