Yeah, I've seen those youtube videos before. I wonder how many episodes he did. Sometimes, the same music was tracked throughout a season (like GILLIGAN'S ISLAND).
Williams' early TV work is really something to get lost in.
Yeah, but were they 44 original scores, or just a handful that were then tracked throughout the remainder?
Having watched all of them some time ago as they aired on Retro TV, they seemed to be original scores for each episode. But I didn't undertake a detailed study of the scores.
Here's an MP3 which includes the most complete version of the end title that I could find AND the cue underscoring a montage from the episode "Bentley and the Brainy Beauty" (where Bentley is dragged around to various civic rallies and ends up speaking at a number of them): http://members.cox.net/thx99/Bachelor_Father_-_End_Title_&_Montage.zip
[Note: The song doesn't appear in the episode in its entirety, including all stanzas and the instrumental section (which underscores a montage of majorettes trying out for the squad). I pieced this together from as many stanzas as I could, and threw in the instrumental section as a "bridge".]
The music credits on the episode didn't indicate otherwise, but of course, that may not be a true indicator. The instrumental version sure sounds like he arranged it, though, so even if the song wasn't written by him, his touches are there IMO.
Here's a picture of Dean Reed and his pals singing the song:
I am trying my very best to find out more about what Williams did and did not do in his TV days, but it's a hopeless task for several reasons.
Any more info on what he did or did not do in this show? Which episodes etc.?
There are several more episodes of the series on youtube now (and some of them have Williams scores), but his theme usually only appears at the end, not in the opening.
Williams scored the second half of the second season and all of the third season. He also wrote a theme (the third of four themes for the series) that was used for the third season.
Williams scored the second half of the second season and all of the third season. He also wrote a theme (the third of four themes for the series) that was used for the third season.
Thanks, Jeff.
If he wrote a new theme, why was it relegated to the end credits?
If he wrote a new theme, why was it relegated to the end credits?
Williams' theme was used for both the opening and closing credits during the third season.
Ah, ok. Then I haven't been able to find a third season episode on youtube. The ones that are available there all start with the old theme (written by???), but has the Williams theme over the end credits.
If it has the Williams theme over the end credits, then it's most likely a third-season episode. What you see on YouTube isn't necessarily the way the show was broadcast on TV 50 years ago.
As run on the Retro TV channel, the opening credits are mixed and matched, and appear to have no true bearing on what season the episode is from. The YouTube vids could have originated from these airings.
