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Recently, The Goldsmith Odyssey was thrilled to join forces with The Legacy of John Williams podcast and the Ipswich Film Theatre to present Score Masters, a celebration of both Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. While you can watch the full program on YouTube, we're pleased to present this audio-only version (enhanced by newly-added illustrative music clips) for those who prefer the podcast format.
You'll hear insightful commentary from a truly remarkable panel of experts: Oscar-nominated composer/conductor David Newman, Grammy-winning classical composer/conductor Leonard Slatkin, soundtrack producer Mike Matessino, sound engineer and producer Bruce Botnick, acclaimed pianist/keyboardist Mike Lang, composer Leanna Primiani, and author/writer Jeff Bond. In addition to the familiar voices of Yavar and David, you'll hear questions from their fellow moderators Maurizio Caschetto and Tim Burden, along with some comments from IFT director Daniel Champion.
It's a truly special, illuminating, entertaining two hours of conversation – don't miss it!
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/8043156-score-masters-celebrating-john-williams-and-jerry-goldsmith
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I've just started to watch the youtube version of the Ipswich discussion, and I promise I will follow it up with your enhanced audio version.
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Mar 10, 2021 - 12:14 PM
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Larry847
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Yavar, Clark and David:
Here's a thought. As you're no doubt aware, whenever somebody posts a blog on the FSM site, people comment and it creates a thread of discussion regarding that particular blog post.
It occurs to me, given that FSM seems to be the most vibrant of the film music boards, that whenever you drop a new episode of Goldsmith Odyssey (including your sub-shows), you might consider creating a freshly titled post announcing that episode and encourage people discuss and comment on that episode right there.
I know that Yavar and I have had several brief discussions about individual episodes via email, but this might be a way for you to interact on individual episodes with your entire audience rather than one person at a time via email. As you know, I'm a big fan of your podcast, and it would be cool not only to interact with you, but have our comments lead to a dynamic complementary feature to your show with the collective community. At the same time, perhaps the sheriff might give you administrative access so that you could ensure constructive, positive discussions about the maestro and the episodes.
Either way, you have a huge fan here of The Goldsmith Odyssey.
Larry
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...whenever you drop a new episode of Goldsmith Odyssey (including your sub-shows), you might consider creating a freshly titled post announcing that episode and encourage people discuss and comment on that episode right there...this might be a way for you to interact on individual episodes ...with the collective community
Larry, I've thought long and hard (just check our posting dates!) about how to carefully craft a reply to a suggestion like this, especially delivered to us in the manor you've chosen. I've had to be very careful with my words, here.
I 100% agree.
(whew!)
For the Face of a Fugitive Spotlight, out today, we're putting the posts where the release is already being discussed, which is already in a lot of places, and since the episode is really about the album, it seems right to throw the attention albumward, but I think we'll follow your suggestion for more regular episodes from now on, for sure. Thanks for the nudge!
Also, coming up is a real doozy (sp?). Editor (and host!) Jens is back for this one, part of his Nugget side series, this more of a... mound? It's a big nugget, whose size is consistently warranted in ways I could not have imagined when we took this particular production on. I've heard 2/3 of it finished, and it's fascinating, and so much more listenable than I'd thought could be made of anything like it. Hopefully we get it out by month's end, but you never know given life and diseases and meteors and stuff.
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/8192306-odyssey-soundtrack-spotlight-face-of-a-fugitive-1959
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Thanks for the heads-up!
I just listened to the Spotlight dedicated to Face of a Fugitive and it was another exciting analysis.
I ordered the soundtrack CD on the spot!
Glad you liked it. How about that quick comparison at about 43 minutes in, near the end, with the film clip (the only way we've been able to hear this) followed by the same music from the album? Man, what a difference!
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Just checking. I know the score had a release, but I know you like to watch episodes and I didn't know if you had the episode. Found it accidentally while looking for something else.
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Mar 30, 2021 - 9:40 PM
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Jens
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When Yavar first suggested that we should do a Gold Nugget on the Black Saddle theme to cover some of the variants we missed the first time, I wholeheartedly agreed almost by reflex. I was blissfully unaware of the behemoth Yavar would eventually turn this thing into. That’s what happens when your show is run by completionists. This was a mammoth recording session with two wonderful guests, the bulk of which made it into the finished show, supplemented by four additional interviews David went out to get while I was editing. It is a 3.5 hour epic, a bonus episode years in the making.
Gold Nugget 8 - Black Saddle: History of a Theme (1958-2020)
https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/8223919-gold-nugget-8-black-saddle-history-of-a-theme-1958-2020
Way back in Episode 8 (our Fifties Roundup show), we talked about Jerry Goldsmith's memorable theme for the western TV series Black Saddle and also noted a couple fun cover versions of the theme we had found. Since then, we've uncovered a host of additional cover versions and thought it might be fun to produce a Gold Nugget featuring them. Over time, this nugget evolved into something considerably more grandiose: a massive affair with two special guests (Bill Humphrey of the ‘60s surf band The Revelairs and John Gilbert, whose father Herschel Burke Gilbert was the music director for Black Saddle), several exclusive interviews with musicians who have covered the theme, analysis of the music featured on the TV show itself, and a generous collection of Black Saddle covers. A grand achievement or an excessive work of madness? Take a day off, click play, and decide for yourself!
Besides our two regular guests John Gilbert and Bill Humphrey, the show also includes additional side interviews with:
Tom Bittel of The Aquatudes
Noé Socha, Josh Davis, and Quinn Murphy of The New York Gremmies
Lorenzo Friday of 13 Tikis
Donny Allen, Tim Allen, and Doug Mellenthine of the Ghost Riders Drum and Bugle Corps; during the interview Doug makes reference to this list of Black Saddle performances on the Drum Corps Xperience.
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I'm super proud of this one. It took an insane amount of research, planning/organizing, and prep time... more than I have ever spent on any episode of the Odyssey, to be honest. And Jens put a great deal of work into the editing, which turned out wonderfully. And since I couldn't fit in extra recordings myself, David heroically somehow fit in the time this past month to conduct a whopping FOUR extra mini-interviews, to really flesh things out (TEN people involved with Black Saddle were interviewed total for this, ELEVEN if you count a FB messenger conversation).
It's a big story which nobody has ever told about Jerry's first ever theme for a TV series, and in my not-so-humble opinion amounts to a significant piece of Jerry Goldsmith journalism. I really hope folks enjoy it.
Yavar
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I doubt you could get a 3.5 hours-long show out of the theme for The Waltons...
If it had been folded into others' scores, covered by a cornucopia of marching bands and bugle corps, and been arranged into multiple iterations disco, acid rock, punk, prog rock, folk, new wave and surf music I'll bet we could.
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My own relationship with The Goldsmith Odyssey almost begins with Black Saddle. I discovered the podcast about three episodes in, emailed the guys and quickly uploaded every rarity I could think of, in case they needed them. Of course, they had almost all of it, but right away Yavar emailed back, "Where did you get that badass cover of Black Saddle?!" I think it was the Dick Powell Presents album version. Later, I did a Facebook post on the anniversary of the Black Saddle's premiere, and when I looked for the theme on YouTube I found, I think six or eight more of them beyond the ones from the 50's Roundup, so I just posted all of them, astonished that it had had such a life. Yavar was as astonished as I was and then found... I still don't know, 15-20 more? It's crazy. This may be Jerry Goldsmith's second most covered theme after his Star Trek: The Motion Picture (and Next Generation) theme. This!
I know it's a little self-serving to give your own show a good review, but this one was different for me. Two years ago I became the show's co-host and editor, swapping in for Jens, who departed (fortunately on a kinda-sorta basis), and he put this one together, a show more like a proper episode than he's gotten to do in over two years, so for the first time in a while I got to be a listener again, and I really liked this. It's an impressive feat mainly because it's so listenable and engaging. I usually have around 20 different music cues to work with; Jens has variations on a single theme, but there is so much other music here, and the guests are charming and informative to a one. I even pre-posted about it on our main thread, I was so excited.
Time is what it is, and if you only have an hour at a given moment, you only have an hour, but I won't be surprised if many play this one straight through, too, as I did with an early draft.
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