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What to expect from Monday's suites:
This is the third or fourth year in a row where I am doing my "Spring into action" theme. Here in the United States of America, the first official day of Spring in March 20, so hence the theme.
Four weeks in a row of action to kick you ass or give you a round-house kick to the head.
Like all previous years, right out the gate we spring into action with "T.J. Hooker". And two other suites from other shows.
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I apologize in advance, but I can't take anymore suite requests until maybe August, and even then it'll be maybe two. I got a busy editing schedule that leaves me with no time, and everything will come down to the wire to meet theme months; I got two suite requests I am trying to work on now, then I got to hop onto a Morton Stevens suite that will a beast to handle (very time consuming, weeks of work) in order to get it done for April, while also in-between finishing up the "Carlie's Angels" suites in time for May, then I got to start recording and working on police shows and westerns, then stuff for August. I still have to finish a David Raksin suite today that have already taken me a few days.
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Just a heads up, but MVSep is USELESS and will be so for who knows how long. The last few days it has been over 400 people in line.
I just now went there to see if the file I loaded yesterday morning was done like it should be, and now there are 1,254 people in line. Fuck, this file may not be done until Monday!
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This week's "Spring into Action" suites.
"High Performance"
Composer: Barry DeVorzon
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NZM6HEi9Mc4
This was a failed TV series from 1983 that lasted four episodes.
A former race car driver starts his own elite team of bodyguards who are ex race car drivers.
EaseUS and MVSep were used to remove dialogue and some FX.
The pilot: https://ok.ru/video/6939385268739
"T.J. Hooker"
Composer: John E. Davis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xRWa4mrVHF0
Suite #2.
The suites I did years ago, edited to hell before the A.I. websites, for the episode the "The Mumbler", I have retroactively made suite #1.
This suite covers the first few episodes of season two he scored. See my thread for the show for what episodes are covered in what suites (if you just gotta know).
EaseUS and MVSep were used to remove dialogue and some FX.
"Walker, Texas Ranger"
Composer: John E. Davis
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fgg5jy2wu706tro/WalkerTexasRanger+score+suite+1+John+E.+Davis.wmv/file
https://youtube.com/watch?v=d0W56mj8uzQ (BLOCKED)
Suite #1 (of two).
Before the series began, there were three feature-length TV movies that began it all. The third one, "A Shadow in the Night" (which doesn't seen to describe the episode at all) is the only episode of the series to be scored by Davis.
Originally I praised the score as being better than the music to the first two episodes, but now with the dialogue removed and a good deal of FX gone, my opinion of the score has gone much further up. His ethnic Asian work sounds real and has a beauty to it (and there is way more of it in the episodes than I realized), his action material works very well, and the score is conceptually well constructed and flows. Had the series not gone downhill so fast and become a series of over-the-top action sequences and round-house kick shots and was more in tone with what it was conceived by, I think Davis would have been a good choice as a regular contributing composer.
EaseUS and MVSep were used to remove dialogue and some FX.
EDIT: Once again, GoogleTube refuses to recognize Fair Use from the copyright law and has blocked the video. The material is transformative, once such example of meeting Fair Use: the audio has been divorced from the episode, A.I. programs used yo recreate the music underneath the dialogue and FX, repaired, edited, presented in suite form. I have included a download link for the movie file.
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Suite Notes:
Turns out that Morton Stevens score I thought would take weeks, is going faster than expected, way faster. Recorded it today, might finish it tomorrow!
It's n especially worthy effort because it's more obscure and covered in dialogue, so using the A.I. programs to remove the dialogue will bring the score into a whole new light.
Oliver Nelson suite recorded.
David Raksin suite completed.
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What to expect from Monday's "Spring into action" suites:
A very special "Starsky and Hutch" suite, Bill Conti, and a salvage job on one of my favorite unreleased TV themes. The TV theme might have an interesting an unexpected backstory -- I'm communicating with another composer over it right now (I made my intentions clear, don't worry).
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This week's suites:
Spy Hard
Composer: Bill Conti
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gFXodLQMiZ8
Personal edit and arrangement of action material from more than one cue, for my edit/arrangement compilation I made for myself. This comes from the promo(?) of the score, so not A.I. programs needed.
"Starsky and Hutch"
Composer: Mundell Lowe
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GyfTGDPY-uk
Suite #1.
This is the first of two suites that cover nearly all his score for the first episode of the series he scored, the one I praised in my thread for the show.
This is a special A.I. salvage-job effort. I spent extra time using EaseUS and MVSep to try and clean it up more than normal.
"The Pretender"
Composer: Rick Patterson
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oPcJSp6GX88
This is one of my favorite unreleased TV themes.
Back in the day when the show was still airing, I had never heard of Rick until I saw his name in the end credits for the theme. This theme was used only on season three.
The show began with a theme by John Debney (and an uncredited pre-existing piece edited WAY down for the end credits by Charles Syndor), then Velton Ray Bunch did a new theme each season. Debney/Syndor began as the series composers.
What makes this even stranger is: the end credits for season three is still a piece by Mr. Bunch.
So, as Ford A. Thaxton said years ago, Rick died many years ago (I couldn't get IMDb to take my death submission), and I therefore can't ask him about it, so I e-mailed Velton Ray Bunch. My theory was that perhaps Mr. Bunch knew Rick and was simply helping him out (since Rick barely did any scoring and maybe he needed some royalty checks coming in).
But chatting with Mr. Bunch (who has been very gracious with his time and information), I found he didn't know Rick and it came as a complete surprise to him the show had this theme. I uploaded my work above to him so he could double check it and make sure it wasn't his and a bad screen credit. He has no recollection or record of doing such a theme and thinks it sounds like somebody took some of his work and laid new material over and what not. I guess Ford would be the only person here who could really clarify this.
I have intentions of doing other TV series theme music salvage-jobs, but won't set that in stone.
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Additional note to the "Starsky and Hutch" suite which I forgot to mention at the time:
I went threw all the track-job episodes of season one (except one, going by the title, because it would have too much FX) hoping to find instances of his score tracked so I could do salvage work and not rely strictly on A.I. websites, but, alas, non of his score was tracked.
Suite Notes:
Getting closer to completing Paul Dunlap suites (for October).
"Dallas" suite underway for June or July. Extra special this year.
Continuing work for a Richard Shores score for a TV movie I couldn't resist after I heard the funky opening title.
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What to expect from Monday's suites:
We continue to "Spring into action" with more "T.J. Hooker", and more round-house kicks.
Suite Notes:
Recording "Chase" suites for June and July.
Took a special request, since it would be relatively easy, for some more "Samurai Jack". With special bonus material. 31st.
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This week's "Spring into Action" suites.
"T.J. Hooker"
Composer: John E. Davis
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BAO7V4PtSrQ
Suite #3.
This suite continues threw season two where the prior suite left off. See my thread for the show for what episodes are covered in what suites (if you just gotta know).
EaseUS and MVSep were used to remove dialogue and some FX.
NOTE: Next year, if I am alive or I am not too busy working, will be the final year for two suites for the show. I will concentrate on other contributing composers next year, then after that it'll be cut down to one suite so I can focus on other shows.
"Walker, Texas Ranger"
Composer: John E. Davis
BACK-UP: https://www.mediafire.com/file/c07zaot52gdn1yj/Wlkr,TxasRngr++(score+suite+#2;+John+E++Davis).wmv/file
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BvVDQufXYI (BLOCKED)
Suite #2.
This is the final suite covering the one-off episode he scored. "A Shadow in the Night"
EaseUS and MVSep were used to remove dialogue and some FX.
I have provided a back-up link to the video, incase GoogleTube ignores Fair Use again.
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