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Worst Music?
geno57:
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--- Quote from: DjohnsonCB on April 22, 2020, 02:45:10 AM ---And I'm quite nostalgic for the Three On A Match theme.
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As am I - and for its prize music. Does that exist in the clear somewhere I've missed?
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Would absolutely love to hear it someday, before I become too decrepit to recognize it.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: chris319 on April 23, 2020, 10:21:18 PM ---What I don't know is how long it would take to produce a music package under ideal circumstances, and whether some of the music companies had tunes already composed and arranged in the event of a rush job. I'm under the impression that the Password Plus music was done on rather short notice. I remember Howard Felsher saying he "hadn't done a thing" about music, after I was hired on December 11, 1978, about 2 weeks before the first rehearsals.
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I've always wondered if companies like Score, with several different composers working for them, would always have an existing library of ideas they were working on, partial demos recorded, etc. which hadn't been "claimed" yet, that producers could choose from if they needed something in a rush? With all the shows they worked on over the years, it would be surprising for me if every time a show needed music from them that they'd start from scratch. Aren't composers always working on stuff?
tyshaun1:
--- Quote from: Ian Wallis on April 23, 2020, 11:34:55 PM ---
I've always wondered if companies like Score, with several different composers working for them, would always have an existing library of ideas they were working on, partial demos recorded, etc. which hadn't been "claimed" yet, that producers could choose from if they needed something in a rush? With all the shows they worked on over the years, it would be surprising for me if every time a show needed music from them that they'd start from scratch. Aren't composers always working on stuff?
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Thing is, especially by the 80's, most game show themes were taken from existing music.
Hit Man theme = "Worlds Away" by Pablo Cruise
Press Your Luck theme = "Flash" by Keith Mansfield
Blockbusters 87 theme = "Run, Don't Walk" by Richard Myhill
Hot Potato open and close = "Stop, Look and Listen" by Donna Summer, "You Make Me Feel" by Sylvester
Body Language theme = "Working Girl March" (though I would argue the Classic Concentration theme sounds more like it)
Whew!, Go, Wordplay, and Dream House are other examples shows that used existing music for their pilots and simply borrowed elements of them for the series music.
chris319:
Edd Kalehoff has a library of music already performed by him on synthesizer. He offers to customize any of the tunes if needed.
What existing music was Whew! taken from? I thought Alan Thicke did a good job with that show.
TimK2003:
--- Quote from: chris319 on April 24, 2020, 06:24:22 PM ---Edd Kalehoff has a library of music already performed by him on synthesizer. He offers to customize any of the tunes if needed.
What existing music was Whew! taken from? I thought Alan Thicke did a good job with that show.
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Unless he was talking about the Whew pilot, I don't remember any song that came close to Thicke's theme.
/TANLMAD theme seems to be loosely based on "Let's Hear It For The Boy", by Deniece Williams.
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