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What about "Rudy" and "Chinatown," both very distinctive and easy to remember? I'm sure that even if they don't know the composer, a broad range of movie lovers would recognize that music as coming from those 2 films. Can't watch the end of "Rudy" without crying my eyes out, although I found that when I listened to the isolated music score, it wasn't nearly as effective as when you hear the crowd screaming and the radio announcer talking about Rudy's struggle. Brings me very close to tears just writing about it now!
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Nov 16, 2013 - 11:17 AM
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orion_mk3
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Goldsmith's "Star Trek" work definitely towers over everything else he's written in terms of public recognition, so much so that I sort of doubt that anything else he's done has come close to it in terms of people recognizing it. A large part of that is the fact that it was cross-generational: the theme was used in 1979, 1988, 1996, 1998, and 2002 on the big screen and 1987-1993 on the small, which is a wide enough net to catch the baby boomers, generation X, generation Y, and whatever kids today are called.
Anything else, no matter how popular it was at the time, is pretty generational. I have never seen an episode of The Waltons or the Man From UNCLE, for example, and I was born in the early 80s in America! That's not to say it's bad of course--I'm no Goldsmith cultist but everybody knows that he was never as successful as John Williams in getting his name to be a household word.
Apropos of what MV said, I would have to add Hans Zimmer to the list of composers people on the street know. I've had quite a few people mention his name to me when I bring up my film music collection; they are usually stunned that I don't have very many 
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