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Nov 15, 2022 - 5:17 AM
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Broughtfan
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I wonder if BUYSOUNDTRAX is done releasing Mort's work.
There hasn't been a release from them since HARDLY WORKING
and that was in 2012.
BTW, HARDLY WORKING is a truly wonderful score and a great CD release...:-)
Yeah, HARDLY WORKING is a musical tour-de-force, Mort even writing a cool disco instrumental for a daydream sequence (undoubtedly influenced by David Shire's work on SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER).
I noticed on Mort's Demo there was no music from say, "The Beacon" episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1985 version), which is, I think, a great score. Outside of the HAWAII FIVE-O stuff (surprisingly, not including cues from such superb latter season scores as "The Bells Toll at Noon," "Nine Dragons," or "A Lion in the Streets") I think I most enjoyed the one cue from SPENCER'S PILOTS (fantastic theme arrangement for brass and percussion) and, especially, the suite of cues from SMORGASBORD (a.k.a. "Cracking Up"), Mort proving a worthy successor to Walter Scharf, for years Jerry Lewis' go-to composer.
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This and Dominic Frontiere's Search/Probe is THE quintessential 70s TV scoring!
This was my first spin of Wheels. Yep, it's a good one, I'd pick it up.
Search/Probe is my second most-wished-for 70's TV music, after Goldenberg's Columbo. Especially the long version of the theme from the pilot movie. But I won't share that number so we don't get off track of Morton Stevens.
I've enjoyed and noticed his work ever since I saw the H50 episode with Hume Cronyn - "Over 50? Steal" in 1970.
Yes would love esp. more H50 music, but I'd take whatever I can get. So glad Intrada revisited Masada, I gained a fuller appreciation of his music in that brilliant score.
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