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 Posted:   Aug 19, 2016 - 4:48 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

Cool find bobb.
Hearing that title music, I can just imagine the producers saying 'make it sound like National Geographic by Elmer Bernstein'.


I'm actually not sure that Scott wrote that music. That title sequence is also used in other Cousteau docs from the era, including ones that Scott scored and DID release, and that music - Nor its melodic fragments - Has ever been anywhere to be found on CD.

I actually assume someone else wrote it (unless I can be corrected otherwise) as it really doesn't sound like Scott at all.

I just love that short, adrenal end title piece Scott wrote. There's a little bit of Holst's JUPITER in its for sure, but more notably it has that bustling orchestral late 70's sound heard Lalo Schifrin's more 'symphonic' output, and a few Williams scores (TOWERING INFERO's main title comes to mind). Does anyone know the origin of this particular 'sound'?

 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2016 - 5:01 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

"Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot"

"Music Composed & Conducted by"

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2016 - 5:43 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

"Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot"

"Music Composed & Conducted by"


No I know, I'm talking about only that opening title sequence music. It also shows up in Cousteau docs scored both by Scott and others, and has never appeared on any of Scott's releases, which leads me to believe it's not by him.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2016 - 10:26 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

As I suspected, it was indeed Bernstein himself that wrote that main title music:

http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=71797&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 1:14 AM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

Another gorgeous effort from film music's equivalent of Maurice Ravel:



Just listen to some of the underwater sequences here. My God, this man's treatment of the natural world through music is just so endlessly enchanting. I could listen to this stuff all day. No one else in film has the same acumen for orchestral writing as he does. The craft is just incredible!

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 2:57 AM   
 By:   KT   (Member)

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 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 3:06 AM   
 By:   moolik   (Member)

The Long Duel
1000000 Eyes of Sumuru
Berserk
Journey to the Unknown
Rocket to the moon
Stranger in the House
The Amsterdam Affair
Crooks and Coronets

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 6:28 AM   
 By:   cody1949   (Member)

Let's not forget HAREM. A possibility has recently been mentioned on this board.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 7:07 AM   
 By:   KT   (Member)

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 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 8:52 AM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

Does anyone know the origin of this particular 'sound'?

I'm unsure whether you are limiting examples to the 1970s or not, but I think there has always been film music which communicates metropolitan hustle-bustle and/or has propulsive rhythms.

Some pre-1970 titles which come to my mind include Rosenman's man theme for Hellfighters, Goldsmith's main title for The Prize plus a track or two from Fielding's Advise and Consent.

https://youtu.be/TDcTt6wp2TA?list=PL2ylERpMRqHFYTJYiQUD8xAbTsUVExgAx

There's likely plenty of Elmer B.'s music which has enough of these characteristics that one might even consider such as one of Bernstein's signature facets...

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 9:09 AM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

The Long Duel
1000000 Eyes of Sumuru
Berserk
Journey to the Unknown
Rocket to the moon
Stranger in the House
The Amsterdam Affair
Crooks and Coronets


I appreciate your interest, moolik, in late-'60s Scott as some of FSM's Scott fans tend to focus on the 1990s & 1980s at the expense of titles in excess of 45 years in age.

2 of the titles mentioned above did get an album released on LP at the time, but most folks tend to think of 'unreleased' as meaning not available on compact discs.

 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 9:12 AM   
 By:   PollyAnna   (Member)

Always liked his unreleased score to the Alistair McLean TV movie "Hostage Tower"

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 9:15 AM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

-England Made Me


Hi, Kari T.

Are you wishing for the LP program to receive a re-issue into CD?
That record was mostly source music cues (dance music, radio tunes, period songs, etc.)
Or are you interested only in Scott's instrumental incidental music from England Made Me?

 
 Posted:   Aug 20, 2016 - 10:58 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I'm going to cehat here and copy and paste my comments from another thread...

His unreleased replacement score to the short film "Shellarama". All told, probably a little over twelve minutes of light-hearted fun themes and orchestration, with some fun percussion.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 21, 2016 - 3:44 AM   
 By:   KT   (Member)

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