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The Laurel CD of cues from The Rifleman is excellent; even powerful for listeners with memory of the series, as so many of the pieces evoke associations with great moments from multiple episodes. My only regret is that the decision wasn't made also to include Gilbert's poignant end-title theme from Sam Peckinpah's Four Star Productions series The Westerner, though the release is still wonderful.
Is there anything released from Have Gun – Will Travel?
A 10-minute suite of Herrmann's score for the Have Gun pilot episode "Three Bells to Perdido" was issued decades ago on a Cerberus Records LP, as well as the CD from the Film Music Preservation Society (is that their current name?) Bernard Herrmann: The CBS Years Vol. 1 - The Westerns. It's limited, but I believe the disc is still available from them.
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Disc 2 isn't merely more Rifleman show music. Gilbert pulled cues from his film scores into the show, so most of disc two is (in addition to being music heard in the show) a sampler of his film work. Quite a few titles are represented, too, but one can only find out via the liner notes, after buying the disc.
Here they are
Riot in Cell Block Eleven (1954)
2-06 Brother Rats
Models, Inc. (1952)
2-07 Man Eats Newspaper
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
2-08 Shorty Plays
2-09 Seasons Change Montage
No Place To Hide (1956)
2-10 Greg's Plan
2-11 Poison Pills
2-12 The Prowler
Witness to Murder (1954)
2-13 Give Him The Needle
2-14 Killer In The News/Police Office
No Time For Flowers (1952)
2-15 March To The Toilet/Follow That Man
Without Warning (1952)
2-16 Torn Suit/The Package
The Highwayman (1951)
2-17 The Highwaywoman
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
2-18 Guilty Or Not
2-19 I'm Leaving/Stalking A Killer
2-20 Vicenti Dies Final
The Naked Dawn (1955)
2-21 Bank Hold-Up
2-22 Hide & Seek
While the City Sleeps (1956)
2-23 Catch Him!/The Fight
The Thief (1952)
2-24 Hidden Microphone
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Is there anything released from Have Gun – Will Travel?
A 10-minute suite of Herrmann's score for the Have Gun pilot episode "Three Bells to Perdido" was issued decades ago on a Cerberus Records LP, as well as the CD from the Film Music Preservation Society (is that their current name?) Bernard Herrmann: The CBS Years Vol. 1 - The Westerns. It's limited, but I believe the disc is still available from them.
It's the Film Music Society, though they've been inactive in recent years.
Thank you, filmmusicnow. I remembered the Society's name change, just not exactly. However, I apologize to BornOfAJackal on being wrong with the label referred to: The Herrmann CD containing the Have Gun - Will Travel pilot's suite came from Prometheus, not the Film Music Society.
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My first inadvertent double post here.
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Apr 1, 2022 - 12:23 PM
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Gilbert was wise to retain the publishing rights to his film and television music, and seven of the films listed have been released on either D.V.D. or M.O.D. D.V.D.-R..
It's not that he was wise -- all composers would like to retain their publishing rights. He was lucky in that he was in a position to request them while at Four Star and not be told to go jump in a lake. Way back then, even for low-budget productions where the composers were paid little to score the projects, it was no easy feat for a composer to retain any publishing rights. Nine times out of ten, he would have to assign those rights to a larger publishing entity and have to settle for his writer's share of royalties and other potential income.
According to an issue of "The Cue Sheet" (the journal of The Society For The Preservation Of Film Music), which had a tribute to Arthur Lange, Gilbert was taught the copyright law in order to own the publishing rights to his music. This includes the music that was taken from other film scores on "The Adventures Of Superman" and of course, the cues previously used in other feature films used in "The Rifleman", some of which were from the Mutel Music Library and besides Gilbert, were composed by Rudy Schager, Joseph Mullendore, Herbert Taylor, Richard Mohaupt, Jack Schaindlin. The "The Adventures Of Superman" theme was said to have composed by Leon Klatzkin, though it's not known if he composed the whole theme, and was published by Bourne.
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also on disc 1:
The Naked Hills (1956)
1-26 Love in a Laundry
1-27 Wilkins Clips Tracy
1-28 Jimmo Dies
1-29 Drunkard's Walk
1-30 Monday Rejected
1-31 You Have a Baby?
1-32 Tracy, Please Come Home
1-33 End Title (The Naked Hills)
Hey, thanks!
See? It's a veritable cornucopia of music sources.
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Apr 1, 2022 - 9:40 PM
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MMM
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"According to an issue of "The Cue Sheet" (the journal of The Society For The Preservation Of Film Music), which had a tribute to Arthur Lange, Gilbert was taught the copyright law in order to own the publishing rights to his music. This includes the music that was taken from other film scores on "The Adventures Of Superman" and of course, the cues previously used in other feature films used in "The Rifleman", some of which were from the Mutel Music Library and besides Gilbert, were composed by Rudy Schager, Joseph Mullendore, Herbert Taylor, Richard Mohaupt, Jack Schaindlin. The "The Adventures Of Superman" theme was said to have composed by Leon Klatzkin, though it's not known if he composed the whole theme, and was published by Bourne."
That's fine that he understood copyright, but that has nothing to do with whether you can GET the copyright. Almost all film composers understand copyright and how important it is, but they are simply not hired by a company that will allow them to KEEP the copyright. In fact, if they demanded they keep the copyright, most of the time they would be told to take a hike and they'll hire another composer.
There's a reason that 95% (or more) of film music is NOT published by the composers, and that is because production companies and their publishing arms simply won't allow a composer to retain his publishing rights. Certainly, it was good that Gilbert understood rights and how to file his copyrights, but the reason he was able to keep those rights was because he happened to be in a situation where his "bosses" allowed him to keep them.
But it should be noted that Gilbert doesn't own the copyrights on all of his music -- much of it is owned by the publishing companies who had connections with the production companies who made the films and TV shows.
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Apr 3, 2022 - 6:49 AM
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chriss
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According to an issue of "The Cue Sheet" (the journal of The Society For The Preservation Of Film Music), which had a tribute to Arthur Lange, Gilbert was taught the copyright law in order to own the publishing rights to his music. This includes the music that was taken from other film scores on "The Adventures Of Superman" and of course, the cues previously used in other feature films used in "The Rifleman", some of which were from the Mutel Music Library and besides Gilbert, were composed by Rudy Schager, Joseph Mullendore, Herbert Taylor, Richard Mohaupt, Jack Schaindlin. The "The Adventures Of Superman" theme was said to have composed by Leon Klatzkin, though it's not known if he composed the whole theme, and was published by Bourne.
Some of the cues used for the first season of "The Adventures of Superman" were taken from the old B pictures "Open Secret" with music by Herschel Burke Gilbert and "The Guilty" by Rudy Schrager. I recently watched both movies and the MUTEL cues can be heard there.
But many of the MUTEL Superman cues are taken from a different unidentified source. Surprisingly some of the them contain the famous Adventures of Superman main title theme. So were these pieces re-arranged from an old B-Movie and a clever arranger added that theme to the existing music? Or was that theme even part of an old score? Since this score is not identified it was possibly taken from an old european B movie? It's known that MUTEL's library was recorded in Europe.
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Apr 3, 2022 - 12:45 PM
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filmusicnow
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"According to an issue of "The Cue Sheet" (the journal of The Society For The Preservation Of Film Music), which had a tribute to Arthur Lange, Gilbert was taught the copyright law in order to own the publishing rights to his music. This includes the music that was taken from other film scores on "The Adventures Of Superman" and of course, the cues previously used in other feature films used in "The Rifleman", some of which were from the Mutel Music Library and besides Gilbert, were composed by Rudy Schager, Joseph Mullendore, Herbert Taylor, Richard Mohaupt, Jack Schaindlin. The "The Adventures Of Superman" theme was said to have composed by Leon Klatzkin, though it's not known if he composed the whole theme, and was published by Bourne."
That's fine that he understood copyright, but that has nothing to do with whether you can GET the copyright. Almost all film composers understand copyright and how important it is, but they are simply not hired by a company that will allow them to KEEP the copyright. In fact, if they demanded they keep the copyright, most of the time they would be told to take a hike and they'll hire another composer.
There's a reason that 95% (or more) of film music is NOT published by the composers, and that is because production companies and their publishing arms simply won't allow a composer to retain his publishing rights. Certainly, it was good that Gilbert understood rights and how to file his copyrights, but the reason he was able to keep those rights was because he happened to be in a situation where his "bosses" allowed him to keep them.
But it should be noted that Gilbert doesn't own the copyrights on all of his music -- much of it is owned by the publishing companies who had connections with the production companies who made the films and TV shows.
Unless it was published by John Paul Music, which was Gilbert's music publishing company, which owns the theme to "The Rifleman" (the name was made up of Gilbert's two sons).
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