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 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 8:36 AM   
 By:   BrenKel   (Member)

Dallas is now showing on UKGOLD and it is bringing back some great (if old!) memories of the music when I used to watch on the BBC some 15/20 years ago.

The music and the great theme by Jerrold Immel is great. I know Bruce Broughton wrote a lot of scores for Dallas as did John Parker.

Does anyone know how possible it would be for some one to release a disc of Dallas music.

With Knight Rider, Chips and Amazing Stories finally getting a release it would be great to see this epic series with great music finally hit the CD player!


NP YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES 2cd set BRUCE BROUGHTON

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 8:46 AM   
 By:   Heath   (Member)

I for one would be interested in a Broughton Dallas CD. His efforts were not only musically interesting, but dramatically axiomatic - quite removed from the usual Dallas musical wallpaper.

I remember The Who Shot JR ep being helped enormously by his music. I think he got an Emmy for that one (?).

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 11:37 AM   
 By:   Professor Hubert Farnswor   (Member)



Does anyone know how possible it would be for some one to release a disc of Dallas music.





That`s a very good question indeed.
As far as I know was Lorimar taken over by Warner Bros. So I guess that WB also owns the rights to the scores of the Lorimar shows.
Please correct me if I`m wrong.
And we all know that WB isn`t Fox when it comes to licensing their older material to record labels.

Please note that also the other DALLAS composers wrote great scores.
Especially Richard Lewis Warren and Lance Rubin.
Even John Parker with his jazzy style that really sounded different from the other composers wrote some fun scores.

And please don`t forget the two other Lorimar soaps FALCON CREST and KNOTS LANDING.
The romantic Dana Kaproff scores to FALCON CREST
and Lance Rubin`s and Richard Grant`s scores to
KNOTS LANDING are very memorable.

All that wonderful music would make tons of great Intrada or FSM releases if it would be legally possible which it most likely isn`t.

But comming back to the original question :
Did FSM or Intrada (or maybe another label) already check out the possibility of such releases ?

I can`t imagine that nobody did. And I also can`t imagine that WB is extremely interested in such releases.

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 12:11 PM   
 By:   BrenKel   (Member)

Thanks for the response guys!

I also love Broughton's work. love Jerrold Immel's scores where he uses the theme in the dramatic underscore. However one of the most cheesy pieces of music in the entire series must be when Bobby and Pamela Ewing are at the night club in the second or third episode and they see the poison dwart (as she was called by Terry Wogan on Radio 2 in the UK at the time!!) trying it on with Ray Krebs. The disco music in the background was a seriously bad version of the main theme!!!

Bring on a CD release now!!!!!

NP Amazon - Alan Williams

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 2:07 PM   
 By:   afn   (Member)

That's exactly the time to ask a question that's been bugging me for 20 years now (and please don't laugh):

There was this one episode where there was an establishing shot of Southfork right after the main title and the music was by a woman if I'm not completely mistaken, and I remember it vividly because it sounded so different from the usual underscore, and in my childhood days it somehow reminded me of GONE WITH THE WIND in its thematic beauty and "splendor", but this was only in this one episode (at least of those I saw and I saw quite a bit in those days...), and I also never read the composer's name ever again, and this is exactly why I remember this whole thing in the first place.

Who was the (female?) composer and what was the episode's title?

 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 2:15 PM   
 By:   chriss   (Member)

Angela Morley? She scored a number of episodes.

A release of some of those great Dallas scores would be most welcome. Especially those by Broughton and the powerful ones by Richard Lewis Warren. And also don't forget the tuneful scores by John Parker. He released a Dallas LP at the time with easy listening arrangements of his themes for the main characters. I own it, it's quite nice.

 
 
 Posted:   May 20, 2007 - 3:17 PM   
 By:   Professor Hubert Farnswor   (Member)


Bring on a CD release now!!!!!


Well, the answer to that is probably : WB.

Provided that I was right with my assumption regarding the ownership of the Lorimar scores.

But I mean a few WB score releases have been possible in the past (OMEGA MAN for example).

Is there anyone who can confirm my assumption regarding the ownership of the Lorimar scores and (if I`m right regarding WB) who knows if someone (FSM, Intrada, Varese etc.) has contacted WB and tried to release scores from DALLAS ?

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2007 - 11:00 AM   
 By:   persuaders   (Member)

Iwas told that all Mr. Immel documents and recordings are in The film music society to be archived at UCLA soon. Marilee Bradford, editor of The Film music society said they re planning a Dallas/Knots landing CD in the near future. Let¨s see if it happens !!!

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2007 - 12:39 PM   
 By:   Professor Hubert Farnswor   (Member)

Iwas told that all Mr. Immel documents and recordings are in The film music society to be archived at UCLA soon. Marilee Bradford, editor of The Film music society said they re planning a Dallas/Knots landing CD in the near future. Let¨s see if it happens !!!

I hope they will not only release Immel scores, because IMO the scores by Jerrold Immel weren`t as good as the stuff by Bruce Broughton, Richard Lewis Warren, Richard Grant and Lance Rubin.

 
 Posted:   May 21, 2007 - 1:50 PM   
 By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member)

Mr. Broughon won emmy's for these two Dallas episodes:

Ewing Blues
The Letter

He was nominated for two others:
The Search
The Lost Child

He also won for an episode of Buck Rogers called The Satyr. I loved his work on that series (especially Time of the Hawk).

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 16, 2017 - 6:06 PM   
 By:   Reeve   (Member)

There are other "Dallas Threads" available - but I chose this one, because the discussion here was that fans of the show - like myself, would like to see a CD release.
There has never been any music released (only the main title).

Is there any chance? I would obviously like the ultimate box-set... but even - if only one CD was released - at least it is a start?

This is probably the longest running TV series of all time, and I know it would be a great seller - if someone like La La Land Records was to do it... I realise that some of my other Holy Grail's are sitting on the fence, but "WHAT ABOUT DALLAS?"
Look at the list of "A" list composers involved? PLEASE?

 
 Posted:   Aug 16, 2017 - 6:12 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Back in 2010 Film Music Society was promoting they'd have this, but from one composer:

Our line of compact discs, featuring recordings of scores and songs restored from original production masters, will soon be expanding with releases including a never-before-heard interview with Miklós Rózsa, Jerrold Immel's music from Dallas and Knots Landing, the documentary music of Paul Sawtelle, and many other fascinating productions.

Here we are, about seven years later and not only has it not materialized, but there'd been no update.

That same quote is still on their site.


In fact, has there been anything from them (let alone the other projects mentioned in that quote) since 2010? I certainly can't name a single one.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 16, 2017 - 6:20 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Presumably FMS actually possesses some of those recordings, but dont have the motivation to release them. Do some brown nosing and maybe one of the upper echelon will share privately with you.

 
 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2017 - 6:19 AM   
 By:   leagolfer   (Member)

The show had its moments, the JR shooting, Etc, but, the demise of the show was Bobby Ewing, he was dead, why in hell, inn bringing him back, a dumb idea, it has a classic theme-track, though.

 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2017 - 9:51 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Mr. Broughon won emmy's for these two Dallas episodes:

Ewing Blues
The Letter

He was nominated for two others:
The Search
The Lost Child

He also won for an episode of Buck Rogers called The Satyr. I loved his work on that series (especially Time of the Hawk).


Bruce (and William) Broughton are all over QUINCY, M.E., with BB often composing in the style he used during his time on Hawaii Five-0, in which he does his best Morton Stevens impersonation. Broughton also uses the Stevens Sound on S4 of Quincy.

Is his composing style on DALLAS reminiscent of those other series?

 
 Posted:   Aug 19, 2017 - 10:10 AM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

I eventually got fed up with the series just being there, it became so hard on the teeth. I've only just remembered there was one short repetitive sequence of notes that were downward descended until they culminated with a single, lingering piano note which was allowed to tail off. It was a generic symbol of the uncertainty left in Jr's wake episodically, or something like that, and was particularly prevalent latterly in the series. What I mean to say is that short sequence did for Dallas what Horner's Danger Motif did for the films he scored. Does anyone recognise that simple musical sequence?

 
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