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INTRADA Announces:



BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY - SEASON ONE
Music Composed and Conducted by LES BAXTER, JOHNNY HARRIS, STU PHILLIPS, RICHARD LaSALLE
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 255

Intrada follows its series of Battlestar Galactica albums with the release of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, featuring music from a selection of season one episodes. Unlike Galactica which featured music composed exclusively by Stu Phillips, Rogers relied on a stable of different composers. While each composer has his own distinctive voice, they all shared a basic understanding that Buck is an old-fashioned hero. He is brave, generous and honorable; always quick to do what is right. He is also suave, funny and fiercely competitive. The series’ humanity and good humor needed to come through in every episode, however intense the action, however cornball the sentiment, and however outlandish the alien trappings. Music played a major role in striking that balance. The scores of Buck Rogers are exciting, funky, tender and strange— but they are never less than fun, and they never lose sight of the hero at the heart of it all.

For this volume, Intrada presents suites from the following episodes on this 3-CD set:

Planet of the Slave Girls (Johnny Harris)
The Plot to Kill a City (Stu Phillips)
Return of the Fighting 69th (Johnny Harris)
Vegas in Space (Les Baxter)
Aradala Returns (Johnny Harris)
Space Rockers (Johnny Harris)
Unchained Woman (Richard LaSalle)

The album also includes the added bonus of "Jelly Belly," a source dance cue from the pilot The Awakening that fans have been seeking for years.

The scoring sessions were recorded directly onto three-channel stereo tape at the Universal Studios The format music (bumper, main titles and end credits) were more elaborately recorded on full 24-track formats, however. All of these elements, both ½″ and 2″, were housed in the Universal vaults in pristine condition—with the sole exception of the second part of “The Plot to Kill a City,” which was fortuitously preserved by the composer on ¼″ full-track (mono) tape.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century stars Gil Gerard as Captain William “Buck” Rogers, an astronaut who is frozen in space for more than 500 years before being discovered and revived. He quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict between the Draconian Empire, led by Princess Ardala (Pamela Hensley) and her aide, Kane (Henry Silva in the pilot, Michael Ansara thereafter), and the embattled residents of Earth, represented by Colonel Wilma Deering (Erin Gray) and Dr. Elias Huer (Tim O’Connor). Buck soon finds new purpose as a galactic “wild card,” bringing his unique perspective to dangerous missions on behalf of the Earth Defense Directorate.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 255
Retail Price: $34.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8284/.f

So happily ordered - thanks to all involved!

This all sounds amazing, both in content and sound quality.

I know I sound like a broken record, but early Universal television programs contain an absolute treasure trove of fantastic music. Thanks for bringing this stuff out and eternally preserving it as a result.

I will be ordering this for sure though not this month, nothing left in the budget :/

@T Newman Fan Universal TV programs do have some great music, I dream of one day getting my hands on more Quantum Leap music, or Seaquest.

"Jelly Belly" only 1:28 ???

Seems odd, because the version i tweaked together a lot of years ago has almost the same length, and my source was an old german VHS tape. And i had to leave out some fragments, because there was dialogue over the music parts.
and the alternate take of "Jelly Belly" from the recording sessions was over four minutes long.

check this out
first, my tweaked version (taken from the german theatrical version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-2-8C10Qs

and the alternate version from the recording sessions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1hpDlPH3o

i am really curious ! unfortunaley there is no snippet of "Jelly Belly"

Thanks guys!! I'm really looking forward to getting this one.

Question.... Intrada dedicated an entire CD to the pilot movie for Battlestar Galactica. Are you guys considering doing the same thing with the original pilot/movie of Buck Rogers?

Thanks for the reply. I thought that since you guys were good enough to give us the "inch" (i.e. releasing the series music), I might as well go ahead and ask for the mile!

Thanks again! Keep up the good work!

Ordered!!!

AWAKENING, featured an alternate version of the series theme,
and a vocal end credits (which was an alternate version of the song "Suspension")

I'm wondering whether these two tracks, are the ones?:

Disc 2
01. Main Title [Version 1] (Glen A. Larson) 1:14
30. End Credits [Long Vocal Version] (Glen A. Larson) 0:51

Beedeebeedeebeedee... Bought

Already looking forward to season two next year.

I am guessing that 2014 is shaping up very nicely.

Intrada you guys have done it again, thank you & to all involved with this release.

ORDERED!

Hopefully sales are so good we might see a Vol. 2 for the first season. I only say J.J. Johnson and Cacavas! Two great completely underrepresented TV composers on disc.

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My Intrada wish list:

The Outfit (Fielding)
The Other Side of the Mountain I (Charles Fox)


and extremely unlikely, but...
Junior Bonner
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot