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May 31, 2020 - 6:33 PM
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OnyaBirri
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I have asked this before, but in my never ending quest to find this piece of music, I am asking again:
The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, hosted by EG Marshall, was a syndicated radio show that ran in the 70s and I think into the 1980s.
The opening theme music is by Nathan Van Cleave, a passage from the Twilight Zone episode "Two." Then EG Marshall talks, and there is a tease from the upcoming program.
Then, after the tease, each episode had this piece of music with a fluttering clarinet, with reverb, and a low octave piano ostinato beneath. In the link, you can hear it begin at around 2:17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQyH4zh7cmk
Anyone recognize it?
Thanks in advance.
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Anyone recognize it?
No.
Sorry, Onya, I don't even recall hearing it before.
Hope you don't mind if I still chat about it, though.
First impression is, even knowing this is coming from CBS, that it doesn't sound
American to me. Perhaps this is because I own (and listen frequently to) a lot of
Italian soundtracks from the early '60s. The clarinet and keyboard/percussion was
relied upon much in Italian genre flicks.
Library stock cues were sometimes commissioned from French (i.e. Marius Constant) or
British (i.e. Wilfred Josephs) composers - maybe circa 1958?
What do you think? Have you already tried researching those two names?
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Jun 1, 2020 - 5:58 AM
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OnyaBirri
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Anyone recognize it?
No.
Sorry, Onya, I don't even recall hearing it before.
Hope you don't mind if I still chat about it, though.
First impression is, even knowing this is coming from CBS, that it doesn't sound
American to me. Perhaps this is because I own (and listen frequently to) a lot of
Italian soundtracks from the early '60s. The clarinet and keyboard/percussion was
relied upon much in Italian genre flicks.
Library stock cues were sometimes commissioned from French (i.e. Marius Constant) or
British (i.e. Wilfred Josephs) composers - maybe circa 1958?
What do you think? Have you already tried researching those two names?
I have not. I wouldn't know where or how to begin to look.
My assumption about the CBS library is twofold: First, the radio show was produced by CBS. Second, CBS library music is used liberally across the series. Herrmann, Goldsmith. And Van Cleave are everywhere. In fact, the 4-CD Twilight Zone box set could have been marketed as the soundtrack for this radio show.
I have wondered if this was a passage from one of the longer Constant works that wound up in the library, but I don't have access to those.
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