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Favourite Tv Themes Volume 1 & 2
[CD]
(Date: 2011-10-28)
Price($):
HK$161
(US$)
Publisher:Dutton
With this Vocalion release, one of Britain?s best-known orchestra leaders of the 1940s and ?50s shows that he was more than capable of getting in a funk groove, ?70s-style. Composer of ?50s light music classics as Marching Strings and Blue Violins, here Ray Martin displays a very different side to his musical persona. Both volumes of Favourite TV Themes were recorded for Decca, and for each album Martin assembled a studio orchestra built around a very tight and very funky rhythm section. Indeed, the funk is particularly apparent on Martin?s skilful, hip arrangements of the themes for International Golf, Kojak, Hawaii Five-0 and Ironside (from Favourite TV Themes Vol.2), as well as the themes for Wheelbase and General Hospital (from Favourite TV Themes Vol.1). This compilation features a host of other classic TV themes from the 1960s and ?70s including Eye Level (from ?Van der Valk?), News at Ten, Grandstand, Midweek, Nationwide and Mission Impossible, all in immaculate new arrangements and brilliantly performed by Ray Martin and His Orchestra. This release features an exciting bonus in that it contains three previously unissued Ray Martin recordings from the ?70s ? namely the themes for Anglia TV game show Sale of the Century, BBC TV?s long-running film review series Film ?74 (or whichever year it?s shown in) and cult sci-fi series Star Trek.
CD
1. European Football (?The World at Their Feet?) (Joan Shakespeare)
2. Kung Fu: Caine?s Theme (Helms)
3. Ironside (Jones)
4. Spring and Autumn (Lewis)
5. Mission Impossible (Schifrin)
6. The High Chaparral (Rose)
7. Kojak (Goldenberg)
8. Upstairs Downstairs (?The Edwardians?) (Faris)
9. Hawaii Five-0 (Stevens)
10. Emmerdale Farm (Hatch)
11. International Golf (?Red Carpet Ride?) (John Shakespeare)
12. Warship (Isaac)
13. Film ?74 (Taylor) previously unissued
14. Sale of the Century (Fenn) previously unissued
15. Star Trek (Courage) previously unissued
16. Van der Valk (?Eye Level?) (Trombey)
17. Nationwide (?The Good Word?) (Scott)
18. Match of the Day (Stoller)
19. Softly, Softly ? Task Force (Spiegl)
20. News at Ten (?The Awakening?) (Pearson)
21. Horse of the Year (Mozart arr Martin)
22. The Big Match (?La Soiree?) (Ordini)
23. Midweek (Scott)
24. Top of the Form (?Marching Strings?) (Ross)
25. Wheelbase (Lee)
26. General Hospital (?Girl in the White Coat?) (Scott)
27. Crossroads (Hatch)
28. Grandstand (Stoller)
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