 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: I Spy, Vol. 2—The LPs |
| |
|
Hearing this today has made me very happy - great sound, great music, and one of my all-time favorite pieces ever used in a TV show, the song Voice In The Wind - it's my favorite I Spy episode as well.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've received my copy and listened to it... and all I can say is WOW!
Lukas, this is a perfect listening experience from beginning to end. The mastering is absolutely impeccable, and the music has never sounded better. I used to play the original LPs on a ceramic cartridge back in the '60s, then transcribed them to reel-to-reel, then from reel-to-reel to cassette, then from cassette to CD, so this release is more than nostalgia -- it's a sonic revelation to my ears, as if hearing an old favourite for the first time... thank you. (I'm definitely buying a second copy of this as well as a second copy of Volume 1 before it sells out.)
Jon Burlingame's notes are concise and informative, the colour photographs are magnificent, and -- I'm surprised that nobody else has noticed this yet -- the inside back cover of I SPY, Volume 1, is autographed by the late Earle Hagen and Robert Culp!
Is there any chance you could post a higher resolution of your autographed cover so that I could print it out and insert it into my Volume 1 CD?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It's sad to listen to these recordings when you consider how far tv scoring (all scoring) has slid. No drama, no emotion, just a synth pad and a drone on 1 or 2 notes. Are we marching backwards?
For me, Earle Hagen's (and, I should add, Hugo Friedhofer's) I SPY was the zenith of the golden age of television scoring, with every episode having its own dedicated music score.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There's 29 minutes (in stereo) of Hagen's and Friedhofer's isolated music on the I SPY DVD episode of "Bet Me A Dollar."
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've received my copy and listened to it... and all I can say is WOW!
Lukas, this is a perfect listening experience from beginning to end. The mastering is absolutely impeccable, and the music has never sounded better. I used to play the original LPs on a ceramic cartridge back in the '60s, then transcribed them to reel-to-reel, then from reel-to-reel to cassette, then from cassette to CD, so this release is more than nostalgia -- it's a sonic revelation to my ears, as if hearing an old favourite for the first time... thank you. (I'm definitely buying a second copy of this as well as a second copy of Volume 1 before it sells out.)
Jon Burlingame's notes are concise and informative, the colour photographs are magnificent, and -- I'm surprised that nobody else has noticed this yet -- the inside back cover of I SPY, Volume 1, is autographed by the late Earle Hagen and Robert Culp!
Is there any chance you could post a higher resolution of your autographed cover so that I could print it out and insert it into my Volume 1 CD?
George, I'll email it to you. I got that at a Queen Mary spy convention event with Earle and Culp attending.
Lukas
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FANTASTIC release!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Image received. Thanks for the great cover, Lukas.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wow, that's some fantastic letter! Thanks for making it available. I can't belive Earl Hagen remembered all that I Spy scoring info, from what was at the time, almost 20 years ago. (I guess he kept great notes!)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Writing 'fan' mail to composers is worth it, if that's the sort of reply you can get!
What a gent Mr Hagen was. And thanks, Lukas, for adding it to the website as a rather fascinating footnote to the release. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Writing 'fan' mail to composers is worth it, if that's the sort of reply you can get!
What a gent Mr Hagen was. And thanks, Lukas, for adding it to the website as a rather fascinating footnote to the release.
I remember a Jerry Goldsmith event in Toronto some 30 years ago that Mr. Hagen attended. When some fans discovered that Mr. Hagen was in the audience at the end of the evening, he was swarmed. In the end it was harder to get to talk to Mr. Hagen that to talk to Jerry.
This letter is a wonderful addition to the FSM on line notes!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I just got this today, and listening to it now. Still only on the first LP, but man is this great. Great sound quality, great orchestration (gotta love bass clarinet + harp), great melodies, great rhythm...yummy.
It's a wonderful album, and one I turn to a lot. The days when tv shows had real melodies and musicianship...
I think I prefer the second album on the disc, the first occasionally veers a bit too much into 'lounge music' territory for me. But overall it's just a superbly listenable set which probably won't appeal to those who don't like jazz - but despite that, it's worth them giving it a try anyway.
And who knows - someone, someday, may have a crack at releasing another album of the original scores 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
