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Byew! Byew! Byew! or Why Does One Theme Song Click While Another Falls Flat? |
Posted By: Neil Shurley on March 14, 2009 - 10:00 PM |
When FSM released music from the Logan’s Run tv show I just about crapped in my pants. Mid-seventies science fiction shows like that one formed the backbone of my TV viewing as I began to hit my teen years. And while I remembered few real details about the show let alone any of the music, when I played the sample and heard that siren opening of the theme tune, something primal in the back of my brain lit up with glee. Yes. The music was imprinted in the very fibers of my being and I couldn’t wait to place my order. The CD as a whole didn’t disappoint and, in fact, remains one of my very favorite FSM releases.
Now, thanks to the magic of the internet, I can even relive the actual title sequence which, again, as soon as I viewed it, flooded straight back into my brain like it was the mid-seventies all over again.
So then I started looking for some of the other shows from around that time that I also remember fondly, hoping again to feel that jolt. But when I watched the opening for the Fantastic Journey, a show that I recall more details from than Logan’s Run, the music left me flat.
Nothing. No big warm flash of nostalgia. The theme just isn’t very memorable. The show itself, the characters and concepts, stayed with me. The music, not so much.
So next I look for Gemini Man, another short-lived show that I loved, about Ben Murphy wearing a watch that made him invisible.
Sort of familiar but, really, again, nothing. Rosenthal just really nailed that Logan’s Run theme, creating something indelible, as opposed to these others that were infinitely more forgettable.
Ah, but what about the Amazing Spiderman?
That’s more like it. Cool and funk-tastic. But still, not that really primal hit in the back of the skull.
Better just go back to one of my all-time favorites, one I taped off the television numerous times and have been humming to myself ever since.
Yep, still hoping for a release of the Man From Atlantis. A boy can dream, right?
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Today in Film Score History: November 10 |
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Billy May born (1916) |
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Bruce Broughton records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Thanksgiving" (1986) |
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Carl Stalling born (1891) |
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Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Child” (1988) |
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Ennio Morricone born (1928) |
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Julian Wass born (1981) |
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Michel Colombier begins recording his replacement score for The Golden Child (1986) |
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Mischa Bakaleinikoff born (1890) |
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Philip Sainton born (1891) |
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Recording sessions begin for Christopher Young’s score for Hush (1997) |
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Richard LaSalle records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “A Place Called Earth” (1969) |
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Robert Gulya born (1973) |
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Sylvain Chomet born (1963) |
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Victor Young died (1956) |
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