Oh yeah. I might also mention that I've been doing this for all the Animated Series episodes since I got the DVDs. I'm through the first volume of DVDs -- 28 episodes (did it several months ago and haven't gotten around to continuing yet but I will).
This series has some of the best and certainly most consistently amazing original TV music ever. Shirley Walker's team deserves a legal release of their music. And a good chunk of it too. Of course if I had my way it'd be like these Amazing Stories releases but with, say, 10 2 disc volumes rather than three.
It's Warner Bros. and on one of the DVD episode commentaries, Shirley does mention the possibility of a release of some stuff in the future.
Anyway they take up more space but I can post them too...maybe I'll wait 'till I finish the whole thing though.
The other little project I only *just* started working on yesterday was the Columbo scores. I've done Dave Grusin's score to the first pilot, Prescription: Murder. Pretty good jazz/symphonic score. Just started doing Billy Goldenberg's score to the second, Ransom for a Dead Man. Very different style but also cool music. Of course some Columbo episodes used tracked music and I will note when that happens. Yet another series I could go for Amazing Stories treatment on. Doug/Roger/Intrada guys, you're really kinda set the benchmark for TV music releases with this series!
I hope the fact that you were able to crack Universal's vault means there is some small chance now of Columbo scores being released...don't forget Steven Spielberg did direct the first regular episode. Anyway, ideally I'd say three two-disc sets would sufficiently cover the Columbos...this is a case where some of the scores I don't think need to be released in their entirety (some are a bit repetitious) -- but of course some, like the pilot and Oliver Nelson's fantastic single outing, The Greenhouse Jungle, would be really nice to have complete. I'm thinking two volumes for the original Columbo run (Prescription: Murder in 1967/8 plus the episodes from 1971 to 1978). These would have music by Grusin, Goldenberg, and Nelson (as already mentioned), and also good music by Gil Melle, Dick de Benedictis, Jeff Alexander, and Bernardo Segall (especially his score to Identity Crisis, the first episode directed by Patrick McGoohan which gives a few nods towards The Prisoner). Maybe Mancini's Mystery Movie theme could be included.
Then the third 2-disc volume would have scores from the 1989-onwards continuation of Columbo which Peter Falk helped produce. John Cacavas, Patrick Williams, Dennis Dreith, David Michael Frank, Richard Markowitz, James di Pasquale, Dick de Benedictis (apparently returning) are all listed on the IMDb, though I myself haven't seen/heard most of these new ones yet. I've heard good things about some specific Patrick Williams scores though. Come to think of it I think he scored a few towards the end of the first run in 1978 as well.
Darn...really should have started a new subject I guess.
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