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Jun 18, 2016 - 8:21 AM
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HARRYO
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I suspect this is somewhat old hat now, but I wondered if anyone could help. On various sites, Jerry Goldsmith is listed as composer on this series, but obviously as we well know, his name is not on the credits. It sounds like early JG theme but you would have thought early out in his career, he would have made sure he had a visible credit. Good series, and music, and interesting that on most, not all Arthur Morton is listed as composer. If you have been here before I apologise, it is my first posting
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Jerry Goldsmith scored one episode, the first one.
Morton Stevens did one.
Michael Hennagin did one, too.
And Arthur Morton did twenty-four episodes.
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Goldsmith did the theme. IMDb also lists Arthur Morton for a theme, too (maybe he did a new arrangement for the second season -- I don't know).
Goldsmith explained in an interview he was under contract with another studio, so he let Michael Henninagin take credit for it. I'm not sure if it's actually credited on screen on any episode though.
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Michael Hennagin was a real person and composer. FSM covered this in an old issue of their magazine after getting contactyed by I think the widow of the composer.
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The theme for BLACK SADDLE always struck me as the most atypical theme in all of Goldsmith's works. It's structure and orchestration is like nothing else he did in those early days. This would have been 1959, AFTER he had done his first western features such as BLACK PATCH and FACE OF A FUGITIVE. I can hear Goldsmith in those two scores but BLACK SADDLE I might have actually bought as being written by someone else.
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Jun 20, 2016 - 11:29 AM
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HARRYO
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I am really taken with the time and effort you have all taken to reply to my small query. It seems to me that Jerry wrote the theme and for various reasons at the time, his name was not to the fore. To me, as a Goldsmith listener - casually from 1963 and in depth, from 1965 , it sounds like a JG theme, as he said all the way through. Oh for the days when TV music was that good. The trouble Jerry took in the Seventies writing TV music when many lesser talents would have just sloughed off anything does him real proud. Thankfully, my other all time favourites for TV scoring, John Cacavas and Billy Goldenberg could write, say scores for KOJAK and BANACEK respectively that bordered on sheer genius for episodic TV. Nothing that passes for TV music today comes close.
If it sounds like I am pining for the Good Old Days, then you are spot on!!
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Jun 20, 2016 - 12:42 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Talk about answering my own question!! Just been reading some of FSM Vol 9 No 8 and lo and behold, an interview with Arthur Morton conducted by Douglass Fake and the real first question is about BLACK SADDLE! Anyway, Mr Morton says that JG wrote the theme, and it was listed as both on the LP - previously mentioned- as he, Mr Morton probably arranged it.
Here's the exchange:
Doug Fake: There are certain pictures that we’re wondering about, say, at Columbia in the late ’50s—there was a film called City of Fear composed by Jerry Goldsmith. There’s no record of an orchestrator; could you have done it?
Arthur Morton: Dave Tamkin might have…
DF: How about Studs Lonigan [1960)]?
AM: That was Jerry! He did his own orchestrations. As for Black Patch [1957], he probably did that himself.
DF: Then your earliest association with Jerry would have been [Four Star Theater episode] “Black Saddle” [1959].
AM: “Black Saddle”! Oh my, you do take this stuff seriously.
DF: Yes.
AM: Well, that was done during the musician’s strike, so he went to Munich, Germany, and I came along. The theme was something composed by Jerry, but I had to write something—I’ve forgotten what—so the credit reads, “Black Saddle, written by Jerry Goldsmith and Arthur Morton.”
DF: That was released on a Dick Powell Four Star Theater LP. You’re co-credited for composition.
AM: That must be my arrangement. He wrote the theme, and I wrote the rest of the score. Gosh. I’d almost forgotten that.
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