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Worst Music?
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on April 20, 2020, 11:22:02 AM ---It isn't BAD, but Las Vegas Gambit's theme reminds me of something from one of the early Care Bears TV specials.
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While we're on that subject..........the piece playing just as you hear "From the Tropicana Hotel..." always sounded like it belonged in one of those little films that you'd see on Sesame Street (kid taking the llama to a dentist, kids at the doctor's office, etc.).
SamJ93:
One more note, from an admitted music theory geek...
If anything, Bob Cobert may have been the one who composed the Blockbusters theme at the last minute, since it's just a basic three-chord blues progression. Playing off what Tim said about the last part being "cacophonous"...I wouldn't be surprised if they just told the studio horn players to go ham after playing the melody and sax solo backgrounds, since the arranger didn't have a full chart ready for them. Obligatory "idle speculation" disclaimer, of course.
Strike It Rich, though still sounding cheaply-made, at least has that iii-vi-IV-bvi twist toward the end of the main melody that's more interesting to my ears musically.
tyshaun1:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on April 20, 2020, 11:33:53 AM ---One more note, from an admitted music theory geek...
If anything, Bob Cobert may have been the one who composed the Blockbusters theme at the last minute, since it's just a basic three-chord blues progression. Playing off what Tim said about the last part being "cacophonous"...I wouldn't be surprised if they just told the studio horn players to go ham after playing the melody and sax solo backgrounds, since the arranger didn't have a full chart ready for them. Obligatory "idle speculation" disclaimer, of course.
Strike It Rich, though still sounding cheaply-made, at least has that iii-vi-IV-bvi twist toward the end of the main melody that's more interesting to my ears musically.
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I'm under the impression that most themes back in the day were composed within a couple weeks of the show airing. IIRC, the $ale music package was put together around December 3 and 4, 1982, just a couple weeks before the show began taping.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: aaron sica on April 20, 2020, 11:29:53 AM ---
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on April 20, 2020, 11:22:02 AM ---It isn't BAD, but Las Vegas Gambit's theme reminds me of something from one of the early Care Bears TV specials.
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While we're on that subject..........the piece playing just as you hear "From the Tropicana Hotel..." always sounded like it belonged in one of those little films that you'd see on Sesame Street (kid taking the llama to a dentist, kids at the doctor's office, etc.).
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And then they threw in a random kazoo. :P
The one thing that kinda bugged me about the Heatter-Quigley themes - and this may be more of a Stan Worth thing - was that, while the themes were catchy, there was never really any flow to them. Some felt like Stan took a few different compositions and stitched them into a three-minute piece. The Split Second theme definitely feels this way, and I saw this as someone who loves that theme song.
I always loved the Blockbusters theme, but the eighth notes that ended the first and second verses always felt so....dry. When the soloists do their thing towards the end of the theme, the horn player does turn them into jazzier 16th notes.
bossjock967:
Hot Potato. There's no melody to the main theme, and the end theme is something completely different.
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