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My life changed when, as an eleven year old, I saw a double feature of Dr. No and From Russia With Love, which was released in the wake of the Goldfinger success but before thunderball.
I must have really loved the music because my mom bought me the From Russia With Love soundtrack. After that, whatever sublimity affected my viewing/listening went out the window. I was hooked.
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Jun 28, 2021 - 8:41 AM
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Solium
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For me, I think it was overt.
Believe it or not, the first film / TV music I fell in love with was actually "Star Trek: The Animated Series".
As a five year old, I loved that series and it was in the children's after-school cartoon slot. I didn't even know a live action series existed at that point.
But the first time I asked for a "record" (as we called them then) was when the James Bond films started showing on television. I just loved the music. It was "Big Bond Movie Themes".
Then "Star Wars" happened.
However, despite being wowed by the music in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "Moonraker" and "The Black Hole" in 1979, I did not extend my record collection or think of myself as a film music fan until I saw "The Omen" on its British television premiere. (Strictly speaking, I was way too young to be watching it.)
Those opening bars made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I made it my mission to get that music and it was in that mission I discovered "Discount Soundtracks" (later: Movie Boulevard) and realized that all the music I'd already loved like the ORIGINAL James Bond film music, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Black Hole", etc, was just sitting there waiting for me to buy it.
That's my origins story.
Since all that is what I would call 'overt' film music, I guess we can say my initial lure was overt.
Cheers
Overt. for myself as well. Johnny Williams score for the (second) pilot of Lost In Space always had a huge impact on me. The music greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the program. Likewise I loved the Star Trek episode, The Doomsday Machine, again the music was very integral in my enjoyment of the episode. For decades I wished for a soundtrack release of The Doomsday Machine but said to myself that would never happen. As a kid I would record movies onto cassette tape so I could hear the music in the background, most notably Godzilla (1954). I loved Star Trek the Animated series soundtrack. I recorded lots of stuff from Saturday morning cartoons.
It helps I grew up in a family that loved music, classical, movie themes and Disney albums. My family played in marching bands. My father had many of the Stanley Black Phase 4 movie themes albums which influenced my taste in music. A sibling had scores for The Three Musketeers, Swashbuckler among other soundtracks. Then there was Star Wars- from that point forward I started to take note of composers and what films they scored and actively seek out those scores.
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I used to notice the music on Lost In Space. (I was the perfect age for the original series!) Not only did I notice it, I waited for it. It's as though I had developed a personal relationship with the tracked music that recurred week after week. "Oh, this is the music for this feeling" and "oh this is the music that means this!" Mind you, I'm only 4 years old. I think that's when it all began. The first words I learned how to read were during the end credits: Theme by Johnny Williams.
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It seems I have always been aware of film music. My father was both a (classical) music buff and a film buff, and we had a piano at home, I had some good music teachers when I was a kid. I was always "aware" of film music. So I was already humming and be very aware of the themes of some of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid growing up. STAR TREK, THE PINK PANTHER cartoons, DAKTARI, THE COWBOYS (probably the first John Williams theme I could whistle... by way of the TV series, not the movie). As far as I can think back, I took notice of music. I could not watch a movie or a TV show without listening to and being aware of the music. I only saw THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY once as a kid together with my dad on TV, but I still can whistle along with John Wayne Tiomkin's iconic tune. I audio taped movies from the TV to listen to them again, and of course, I very much noticed the music then.
It was, however, only when I was 14 or so that I became aware you could actually BUY film scores on LP, when through a friend of mine, I got tape copies of the soundtracks to STAR WARS and STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE... listening to these scores on their own, without the movie attached, was a revelation. I learned much about (classical, orchestral) music just by listening to these two scores up and down. I then started to buy some soundtracks of my own, often without having seen the movie. I selected them either by composer or just because I was generally interested in hearing the music of that particular picture. Among my first own "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" LPs were THE BLACK HOLE & JAWS 2.
So I fall into the "overt" category. I was aware of film music early on and pretty much listen to it in one way or another ever since.
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Bond was next, and I remember my supreme disappointment when I got this album at 9 or 10 and knew immediately that this wasn't the music featured in Bond movies.
Yeah, but you got a KILLER album cover, which is just as important as the music.
Amen! And it's a great album in its own right, I don't think ever available on CD or digital. Though you can find it on youtube, or at least I did a while ago.
But I was so grateful some years later, at the elderly age of 12, to find this terrific compilation of the first seven flicks.
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PS - Intrigue with Soul is available on CD after all, on Amazon at a reasonable price if you need to add to your kinda-like-James-Bond albums (it does have a couple of one of a kind covers).
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