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 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 10:18 AM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

In the days of Steven Spielberg's AMAZING STORIES TV Series we got a nice number of decent and some excellent scores to the episodes, provided by many of Hollywood's greatest composers.

It seems some composers were left out of the mix. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think there were any episodes scored by Dave Grusin, Bill Conti or even Ennio Morricone.

We did get some excellent work from John Williams and Georges Delerue who I think did the best scores for the series including Wiliams THE MISSION and Delerues beautiful scoring of 3 episodes, THE DOLL, DOROTHY AND BEN and WITHOUT DIANA.

What composers do you wish might have scored an episode or episodes for the series and what are some of your personal favorites of the existing AMAZING STORIES Scores?

Thanks.

youtuber Fish Man has posted some enjoyable suites of scores from the series. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAGHmpWJr8

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 10:28 AM   
 By:   James MacMillan   (Member)

Well, it would have been nice if Elmer Bernstein had done one of them...

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 10:37 AM   
 By:   leagolfer   (Member)

Well, it would have been nice if Elmer Bernstein had done one of them...

Ditto, i don't think Schifrin was either, he was still composing good-scores around that time.

 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 12:50 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini were at the top of my list.

 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 1:30 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Most of them already mentioned in the post, but I'd add Ken Harrison and Richard Lewis Warren (both retired from scoring now).

But since the series is apparently coming back, we can maybe fulfill a with or two.

 
 Posted:   Jul 9, 2017 - 1:45 PM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

Cool that Pat Metheny and Thomas Newman scored one episode each.

 
 Posted:   Jul 10, 2017 - 3:07 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Miklós Rózsa... would have been really nice to see (hear) him score an Amazing Stories episode, perhaps an episode in the style of the Buster Keaton Twilight Zone episode... taking place in Hollywood in two different eras (both the then contemporary 1980s and the 1950s or 40s). Rózsa's music could have provided a lush backdrop for the Hollywood of the Golden Age. Would have been nice too see him return for such an episode, and in fact, I'm almost sure somebody would have loved to write and direct such an episode had Rózsa scored it.

(PS: I know Rózsa drastically curtailed his output in the 1980s and retired from film scoring because of his stroke, so it's just wishful thinking.... but it would have been a great TV score, I'm sure.)

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2017 - 8:57 PM   
 By:   Paul MacLean   (Member)

Spielberg asked David Lean to make an episode -- but Lean wanted six months to shoot it!

Too bad, I would love to have heard a Maurice Jarre score for a 30-min. David Lean-directed fantasy.

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2017 - 8:57 PM   
 By:   Paul MacLean   (Member)

Double Post. embarrassment

 
 Posted:   Jul 11, 2017 - 9:42 PM   
 By:   SBD   (Member)

Miklós Rózsa... would have been really nice to see (hear) him score an Amazing Stories episode, perhaps an episode in the style of the Buster Keaton Twilight Zone episode... taking place in Hollywood in two different eras (both the then contemporary 1980s and the 1950s or 40s). Rózsa's music could have provided a lush backdrop for the Hollywood of the Golden Age. Would have been nice too see him return for such an episode, and in fact, I'm almost sure somebody would have loved to write and direct such an episode had Rózsa scored it.

Maybe it's just me, but David Shire's opening of "Hell Toupee" sounded very Rozsa-esque.

 
 Posted:   Jul 12, 2017 - 8:37 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Oh, never mind -- my hopes just went out the window looking up the still in-the-works reboot: no Steven Speilberg, and headed by Bryan Fuller.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 1:31 AM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

Is is somewhat interesting that George Lucas or Francis Ford Coppola did not direct an Amazing Stories episode? Did Brian De Palma?

Also, for anyone who is interested, I have started to review Amazing Stories episodes on youtube:

Here's my review of "Dorothy and Ben" and you can find more, once you are there.

Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRbwMfRfZ0&t=2s

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 3:33 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I was disappointed John Williams didn't score all of them!!

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 8:11 PM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

I was disappointed John Williams didn't score all of them!!

Sort of what he did in the old days scoring ALCOA THEATRE where he did entire seasons of the series.

So many sub par AMAZING STORIES though and many that were just plain silly and pretty much unwatchable. Perhaps Williams scoring the crappy one's might have at least uplifted them a touch.

Then again, perhaps not. The maestro is Awesome but even the pro's have to find it hard to score garbage.

The best scores in the series for me are John Williams THE MISSION and George Delerues AS Trilogy including DOROTHY AND BEN, THE DOLL, and WITHOUT DIANA. Pat Metheny's score for GRANDPA'S GHOST is wonderfully effective in the episode.

 
 
 Posted:   Jul 15, 2017 - 9:26 PM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Or maybe John Barry, Dave Grusin, or Lalo Schifrin?

 
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