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Good composer. It seems like he had a long and full life.
Did we meet him at the second FSM gathering some years ago, or am I remembering incorrectly?
Yavar
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May 16, 2015 - 11:32 AM
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Rollin Hand
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Name: Robert Jackson Drasnin
Birthdate: November 17, 1927
Profession: composer, musician (flute, clarinet, and saxophone player)
Trivia:
Robert Drasnin worked on America's best spy shows of the 1960's. He was a very prolific "Man from U.N.C.L.E." composers from its season 2. He also did a lot of QM series. After Richard Markowitz, and especially in the genesis, he was the other dominant composer of the series “The Wild Wild West” for which he created the theme of the arch-character Dr. Loveless (played by Michael Dunn) in the season 1 "The Night The Wizard Shook the Earth" and during the third season of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", he composed an oddball episode entitled “The Wax Men”, with, again, Michael Dunn--the arrangements of this score made references to both "The Night The Wizard Shook the Earth" and “The Night of the Man-Eating House”. Drasnin wrote a lot of ABC Movie of the Week scores as “Daughter of the Mind” (1969), “The Old Man Who Cried Wolf” (1970), “Crowhaven Farm” (1970), “Dr. Cook’s Garden” (1971), “A Taste of Evil” (1971), “Night of Terror” (1972), “The Heist” (1972).
Favourite works:
Television
THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR
(season 1)
"The Thirty-First of February"
"The Paragon"
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
(season 2)
"The Foxes and Hounds Affair"
"The Re-Collectors Affair"
"The Tigers Are Coming Affair"
"The Dippy Blonde Affair"
"The Nowhere Affair"
(season 3)
"The Galatea Affair"
"The Pop Art Affair"
THE WILD WILD WEST
(season 1)
"The Night of the Deadly Bed"
"The Night The Wizard Shook the Earth"
"Night of the Casual Killer"
(season 2)
"The Night of the Man-Eating House"
I SPY
(season 3)
"The Seventh Captain"
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
(season 2)
"The Slave, Part I"
(season 3)
“The Mercenaries”
"The Play"
(season 5)
"Butterfly"
"My Friend, My Enemy"
(season 6)
"Run for the Money"
"Nerves"
MANNIX
(season 2)
"A Night Out of Time"
(season 3)
"Color Her Missing"
"Penny for the Peepshow"
(season 5)
"Days Beyond Recall"
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
(season 3)
"The Wax Men"
THE TIME TUNNEL
"Crack of Doom"
"The Death Trap"
LONGSTREET
Pilot
CANNON
Pilot
THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
"Interlude"
Cinema
"Ride in the Whirlwind" (1965)
"The Kremlin Letter" (1970) (Intrada)
Film Score Monthly released three superb volumes of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.":
Volume 1
http://www.screenarchives.com/fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=245
Volume 2
http://www.screenarchives.com/fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=280
Volume 3
http://www.screenarchives.com/fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=320
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He also did a few episodes of Lost in Space, particularly Forbidden World (the final cue, "Space Walk," was tracked a lot in the third season for the more humorous endings) along with West of Mars, Thief of Outer Space and Curse of Cousin Smith. A fine composer...
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