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Favourite TV and Movie themes


ianrendall

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[quote name='julesb' timestamp='1434743489' post='2802506']
I always at some point in any given rehearsal even for just a tiny bit play the Jaws riff, Sweeney and The Professionals.
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like those, been so many great ones in this thread.
I'll add Minder, I always thought it sounded Chas and Dave :)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ohUHIjAxI[/media]
and Dr Snuggles always makes me feel good for some reason.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSAwLKWs5Ow[/media]

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My first proper band in the 70's had Hammond, a new fangled polyphonic synth with "strings" and a real brass section. We did loads of TV and Film Themes as they went down really well with the audiences.

Shaft, Hawaii 5-0, Six Million Dollar Man, Charlies Angels, Summer of 42 Biddu arr., Muppet Show Theme, Monty Python Theme, Exodus, The Avengers, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Shadow of your Smile etc.

Really enjoyable tunes to play especially as the composition/arrangements were by people such as John Barry, Michel LeGrand, and Lalo Schifrin and recorded by top session players. I miss those days, playing 5 nights a week plus Sunday lunchtimes, how times have changed!

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[quote name='kev b' timestamp='1434918435' post='2803882']
My first proper band in the 70's had Hammond, a new fangled polyphonic synth with "strings" and a real brass section. We did loads of TV and Film Themes as they went down really well with the audiences.

Shaft, Hawaii 5-0, Six Million Dollar Man, Charlies Angels, Summer of 42 Biddu arr., Muppet Show Theme, Monty Python Theme, Exodus, The Avengers, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Shadow of your Smile etc.

Really enjoyable tunes to play especially as the composition/arrangements were by people such as John Barry, Michel LeGrand, and Lalo Schifrin and recorded by top session players. I miss those days, playing 5 nights a week plus Sunday lunchtimes, how times have changed!
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Now that's a band that I would have loved to see! 👍
:)

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[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1434741326' post='2802470']
Ooh, where to start?
TV:
This. Delia Derbyshire was just amazing...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPJ6GMXM3E[/media]
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+1

A great iconic theme made long before the advent of synthesisers made using tape loops, I believe.
It was truly boundary pushing for 1963.

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[quote name='kev b' timestamp='1434918435' post='2803882']
Really enjoyable tunes to play especially as the composition/arrangements were by people such as John Barry, Michel LeGrand, and Lalo Schifrin and recorded by top session players. I miss those days, playing 5 nights a week plus Sunday lunchtimes, how times have changed!
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Indeed they have changed.
I very much remember those gig schedules.
Plus throw in the Monday lunch times 'Lovely Jubbly club',
or packing up as quick as you could and go and do a gig in a late night hostess
club in the West End...lol..

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Movies

Howard Shore – Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Pat Metheny – A Map Of The World

Javier Navarette – Pan’s Labyrinth

Schindler’s List

TV

Bill Conti’s Theme From Cagney and Lacey. Great lines

Mr Benn – A Don Warren (Duncan Lamont) composition that featured UK Jazz/session legends like Kenny Wheeler, Ken Baldock and Ray Swinfield (the musicians are featured on the Mr. Benn credits; how rare is that?)

Noggin The Nog – a solo bassoon thing by Vernon Eliot. I loved it long before I had the faintest idea what was required to make it happen!

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[quote name='Rikki1984' timestamp='1434922742' post='2803933']
+1

A great iconic theme made long before the advent of synthesisers made using tape loops, I believe.
It was truly boundary pushing for 1963.
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This is a great site:
http://dwtheme.com/derbyshire/1963/

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[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1434969288' post='2804188']
This is a great site:
[url="http://dwtheme.com/derbyshire/1963/"]http://dwtheme.com/derbyshire/1963/[/url]
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Talk about a dream job. The Radiophonic Workshop must have been an amazing place to work back in those innovative days.

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My vote goes here, I always thought it should have been used for a more 'Starsky & Hutch'-type show. I might as well confess to cobbling up an extended version for the car with a DAW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2faXYZSSs

A very close second...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHp9oZPqs8E

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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1434977715' post='2804311']
[url="https://youtu.be/j3nM2Ul4rLU"]https://youtu.be/j3nM2Ul4rLU[/url]

Bloody hell!

Someone remind me how to embed YouTube would you?
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Get a link that looks like** this: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nM2Ul4rLU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=j3nM2Ul4rLU[/url] and remove the "s" from "https"

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nM2Ul4rLU[/media]

** ie not youtu.be, not m.youtube, etc

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Top Gun Anthem has to be top of my list. One of the first guitar instrumental tracks i actually liked, and one of the first good films i watched as a kid.

Liam

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTJmXrgsFg"]http://www.youtube....h?v=zCTJmXrgsFg[/url]

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