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Williams's best work in the 60s and early 70s, generally, was for tv. For films he scored a lot of comedies and B-movies. The Reivers really opened doors for him. So, depending on when Raksin's shows ran, it may not have been surprising that Williams was not included.
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Tough to find much info on this one.
According to:
https://pandora.com/artist/full-bio/david-raksin/ARzdqXP6vbqrxPm
"He also worked in radio, most notably writing, narrating, and conducting interviews for a three-year series of 64 hour-long programs entitled The Subject Is Film Music..."
According to:
https://secure.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=3&threadID=95040&archive=0
It looks like one interview can be read
“I felt that the task of the score to this movie was at the beginning,” Jerry Fielding told fellow composer David Raksin in a 1979 interview for the radio show The Subject Is Film Music (according to a transcript published in Soundtrack! magazine No. 23). “[To] set up something that’s tenuous…because you see the Wild Bunch coming, in American Army uniforms, and if you know that they’re not who you think they are, then the whole thing is shot.”
And:http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2012/073112.html
...it sounds like it would be nice if this 2012 program pops up somewhere
David Raksin Centennial Broadcast
KUSC-FM salutes revered film composer on August 4
"...Raksin, who was writer and host of his own KUSC program, The Subject Is Film Music, in the 1970s, will be heard in numerous excerpts from his broadcast commentaries..."
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Bump. Does anyone know how we can get access to the interview with Alex North and others?
Not online, I don't.
Email me privately, Linae. Use my screen name here, at the Yahoo.
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"I remember these. I think they were usually on Friday and then Sunday night. Little did we know what treasures these were. Ah, things taken for granted."
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I knew, and it looks as if maybe David in Berkeley knew. Somewhere in my dusty archives I have a bunch of audiocassettes I recorded at the time. Raksin's tributes and his interviews tended to take up two one-hour programs each, includung, most happily for me, his conversation with Hans J. Salter.
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I know he interviewed a number of notable film composers about film music and also played excerpts from their film scores. I just listened to an episode on Hugo Friedhofer which I found here: https://hugofriedhofer.dudaone.com/interview-with-hugo-friedhofer - fascinating!
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Thank you so much for pointing this out!
There is another Friedhofer episode. In it, I recall that they play some of THIS EARTH IS MINE, and both Raksin and Friedhofer profess a liking for the looks of Jean Simmons.
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I've always said, film music composers are no fools.
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"I remember these. I think they were usually on Friday and then Sunday night. Little did we know what treasures these were. Ah, things taken for granted."
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I knew, and it looks as if maybe David in Berkeley knew. Somewhere in my dusty archives I have a bunch of audiocassettes I recorded at the time. Raksin's tributes and his interviews tended to take up two one-hour programs each, includung, most happily for me, his conversation with Hans J. Salter.
I don't remember a Salter program. Is there a list anywhere of all the ones he did? I'm combing my memory to see how many I can remember.
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I don't remember a Salter program. Is there a list anywhere of all the ones he did? I'm combing my memory to see how many I can remember.
HELP ME OUT HERE, PRESTON! 
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David in Berkeley, I can confirm that Hans J. Salter was Raksin's guest on two occasions. I know this because dear Preston taped the programmes on to a cassette for me many years ago... I still have the 120-cassette, but nothing to play it on these days!
Elmer was on the programme three times - interviews one and two dealt with his composing career, in interview number three the subject was his Film Music Collection series.
Thanks for your list. I never knew about Alex North or David Shire being interviewees. It is a great shame that the series isn't available for all who are interested to explore and learn from...
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Hi, I'm back. I taped lot of them, but all this time later I can't lay my hands on them. Motivation for major spring cleaning!
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Yavar is going to get excited if that Goldsmith one is found.
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