Library Music Themes
General Sharing & Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: zach on February 05, 2018, 06:03:53 AM
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every iteration of the board needs this fun thread.
finally got my hands a mega rare vhs video yearbook of the 1988 Notre Dame football team, the last time they won the national championship.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8YnULcDsPm4/WnfegLWd3XI/AAAAAAAAMyQ/wLE5ZSzy6u0b1ZSgxJCidouBl0VZkoAiwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2034.JPG)
what a tape, and halfway through the season highlights they started playing 'Enigma' from de Wolfe 3499. great sports tune.
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2WoHQGvs3Qc/WnfegI65V4I/AAAAAAAAMyU/BruRMbh1Q10pSckYysGPw6j22Pdbxvf4gCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2029.JPG)
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I love it when something familiar pops up.
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Was just watching a weird educational film from the late forties/early fifties entitled "The Adventures of Junior Raindrop" that utilized a couple of library tracks I recognized: "The Runaway Rocking Horse" by Edward White (Boosey and Hawkes) and "Pelican Picnic" by Jack Shaindlin (Langlois Filmusic/Cinemusic).
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I always mark out when a library tune pops up during an old VHS tape or commercial.
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Your Home in Their Hands S1 E5 - about 15 mins in they use Simon Benson’s ‘Dark Doings’ from KPM 1185 - String Family
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Hawkshaw classic "Beat Me 'til I'm Blue" is currently peddling home insurance where I'm at.
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Check it out with Dr. Steve Brule on the Adult Swim network is filled withholdings from Walter Bennett and Jeff Newman. For those outside the USA, do you get Adult Swim? If so what do you think about this show which at times is so stupid it's insanely funny.
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I swear to god, sometimes stuff pops up in the most random places - I just caught one of the (frankly, unfitting!) A. Riccardo Luciani cues from "Dal medioevo al rinascimento" in some trashy reality show rerun. Haha.
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Gardeners World played a classic ‘swinging 60’s’ track the other day. You know I’m rubbish with names- might be an old Amphonic
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Sorry for the bump, but I just found a few episodes of an obscure 60s sitcom called "Mack and Myer for Hire" which uses several cues now with Sound Ideas:
Capri Twist
One Clown Band (#17)
Round & Round (#1, #2, #14)
All credited to Albert Marlowe (pesu. for Brian Niemens), although the closing credits for the show credit "Ross-Gaffney" for "music and editing".
Can't tell if they originally had these cues, or if whoever these copies came from slapped them on certain scenes.
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Finally managed to track down the first episode of ITV's "The Hanged Man", which is chock-full of Alan Tew's "Drama Suite" cues. The lovely "The Detectives Link 7a/7b" aptly serves as ending credits theme.
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Sky/ Virgin movies just showed a trailer for Unsane which uses Brian Bennett’s Hideout - used in Rabid also. So weird when you recognize it- at first I thought Halloween and it took a few seconds for my brain to realize what it was.
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But why?
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Why did they use it? I guess it's cheap and it's only a trailer for a TV company.
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It wouldn't surprise me if the person who made the trailer knew exactly what they were doing as regards 'Hideout', and knew that certain clued-up people would recognise it - I always think of The Sweeney when I hear it, myself. It's a track that still does the job without seeming too dated.
Finally managed to track down the first episode of ITV's "The Hanged Man", which is chock-full of Alan Tew's "Drama Suite" cues. The lovely "The Detectives Link 7a/7b" aptly serves as ending credits theme.
Something I've never quite been able to get to the bottom of re: The Hanged Man - was the music composed for the show initially and later brought into the Themes International library, did Yorkshire Television get it off the shelf, or was it a co-production? I'm sure there was a YTV connection with TIL somewhere along the line, maybe via Alan Hawkshaw, but I'm not quite sure what it was. The Contour LP release credits the publisher as Chevron Music, who were YTV's music publishing company.
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Sky/ Virgin movies just showed a trailer for Unsane which uses Brian Bennett’s Hideout - used in Rabid also. So weird when you recognize it- at first I thought Halloween and it took a few seconds for my brain to realize what it was.
Good catch, Retro. You made me track down the trailer to this movie. Looks fun... Soderbergh. Seems reminiscent of the 1948 film "Snake Pit" with Olivia de Havilland.
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Watching an episode of The Gentle Touch recently, I heard a blatant Blondie rip-off called 'Heart Of Stone' which sounded maddeningly familiar - after some digging I remembered it was from the Bruton album 'Pop Vocals'.
Further digging led me to this version by one Edith Bliss, which was apparently released as a single in Australia - I think this is a different recording from the Bruton one, but a bit of a curio nonetheless!
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Haha wow, nice find! I do wonder how this came about.
- According to Edith Bliss' only LP release, It seems to have been licensed through Brian Wade's Waif Productions Ltd.
This cue got around:
... according to this board game, it's by "Near Miss".
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How fascinating! Great seeing the video!!
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Ha, I've never seen that Radio Luxembourg board game thing before, that's great!
It looks like there are a few other Brian Wade tracks on Ms Bliss' album, so I wonder if there are any other Bruton tracks on there?
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On a recommendation, I've recently started watching the FX show "Atlanta". One episode is structured around a spoof TV channel, and littered with goofy-sounding library cues. Among the lot, I recognized a cue also used in the Eric Andre Show, "Oregon Spirit" by Rolf Krüger off of Selected Sound 5160.
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Just heard "Hawaiian Happiness" by Jon Jelmer at about 17:31 in this obscure childrens' record:
https://youtu.be/HowuJMhypG4
Immediately recognized it from its usage in SpongeBob.
By the way, anyone here know any of the other library pieces used here? Particularly interested in the Latin music at about 9:35.
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Watching a repeat of Nigella: At My Table, episode one. It uses a lot of Motown instrumentals throughout but I recognized again Keith Mansfield’s On Top of the World (KPM).
I used it toward the end of this mix:
https://retroteque.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/library-music-meets-rare-northern-soul/ (https://retroteque.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/library-music-meets-rare-northern-soul/)
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Hans-Willy Bergen's cheery "Happy Poster" is now advertising eggs on TV here.
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Two KPM things on TV tonight. I watched last Friday’s Gadget Show on 5 and again Craig Charles used a KPM LP to demonstrate a record player.
And the SKY Vegas trailer/ advert uses Funky Fanfare.
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When i visited the Basketball Hall of Fame about six years ago, there was a random video highlight playing and it had Francis Monkman - Strident Theme playing! Made perfect sense for the clip, it was like Pistol Pete running a fast break haha. Heres the song for those not familiar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwZO9pvNHU
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just watched a 1992 notre dame football video yearbook, and they still using de wolfe's 'action, not talk'.
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Wolfgang Kafer "Fly & Spider" from Media used for a 1985 Playboy Mag commercial
youtube.com/watch?v=lOfjE5HbF9k
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Several years ago I bought a VHS tape that contained a review of the year 1962 (the year I was born). PICCADILLY NIGHT RIDE (by Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield) was used in that review.
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Malcolm Lockyer's great tune "The Stroller" is selling Vespa scooters at 14:28 in this drive-in intermission compilation:
archive.org/details/DriveInIntermission15
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Lemon Dips ‘I Am The Man’ is well known from its appearance in ‘The Haunted House Of Horror’ but have only recently come across it’s 1971 appearance in an episode of ‘Armchair Theatre’...
h++ps://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_mjLSgXmx/
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Good old Talking Pictures.
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Good old Talking Pictures.
My most watched channel :)
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Graham de Wilde's "Send Them Victorious (b)" shows up in this commercial for Heath Toffee Bars.
Apologies if this thread revival is in violation of any rules.
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Nice spot. This thread is an on-going one. It's a shame we lost the other form archives as this had a place on all of them.
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I watched the odd Hong Kong horror movie Black Magic (1975) the other day, and around 20 mins I heard the eerie synths of Frank Gartner´s Mechanized Electrons (from Bosworth Music BLP 133 Dramatics Electronic.)
There were probably a few more library tracks used in that film, but that was the only one that stuck out to me.
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Bumping this :) Anyone else happen upon any cues in the 'wild' recently?
Caught Massimiliano Bruno's new "Non ci resta che il crimine" as in-flight entertainment recently, which featured a few seconds of (I think) one of the "Drama Suite" stings - something Themes, at least.
Finally got around to watching "Nightcrawler" a while back too, which fittingly had at least one of the themes from the Carlin CD "24 Hour Orchestral News" that someone posted to the board a few years ago.
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The episode of Within These Walls 'Prisoner By Marriage' has a scene in a kitchen with a radio on in the background, where the DJ back announces Tony Woods' 'Restless Woman', from the de Wolfe album of the same name.
He then goes on to introduce a piece which he claims is by a group called Pink Sable, called 'Bad Manners' - this is probably the track of the same name from Standard Music ESL 123 'Small Group Pop' by Herbie Flowers and Roger Coulam, with Pink Sable alluding to Flowers and Coulam's band Blue Mink!
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Love it! I have them in DVD but never really watched them.
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I remember watching the infrequent behind the scenes videos for Saturday Night Live. I believe this is from the Film Unit one. There’s a couple of scenes where the show the timeline view of the video editing software with a couple of Brutons and KPMs.
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Might be interesting if the cues can be matched to the sketch. I also recall some Cinemusic stuff being used. Though I wonder how many times they had a licensed track when they air live vs. dropping in a library track on reruns. Also wonder what they used in the 70s before APM.
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A fun thing with libraries digitizing their archives is that cues suddenly show up in odd, unexpected places. I just recognized Franco Altissimi's "Ballad" and Nino Rapicavoli's "Erea" and "Gustosita'" in a youtube video about video games.
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Don't know if this one was posted before, but I discovered some time ago that "Skin Tight" from Paul Keogh (on Brutons' Souled Out) was used in an episode of the Young Ones:
edit: see/hear at 5:36
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Watched the finale of Donald Glover's excellent series "Atlanta" last night and it briefly features Bruno Nicolai's "Skyscrapers" (Gemelli GG - 10.024).
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I have found some tracks in some media and it always makes me go "A-ha!" :)
This educational video of a Zenith VHS... (at 13m 35s)
KPM - CLASSICAL FUSION - Newsweek (Track 1) https://www.kpmmusic.com/en/browse/labels/KPM/2
Or maybe the intro video of "Medical Detectives", one of my favourite TV shows? Not sure about the U.S. version, but the German dubbed version... (at 48 seconds)
has "CONSTANT PRESSURE" from the HIBOU album "Dramatic Vol. 2".
https://www.nslibrary.nichion.co.jp/keywords?page=1&keyword_search=HIBCD157-7&target_search=track
One of my favourite computer shows from the 80s to early 2002s was the Computer Chronicles. From the mid-90s to the end, it uses an edited version of the track "Zenith" (at 15 seconds and continously in the show - they just have one track for all their airings!)
ZENITH - John K. Manchester - (Track 8)
https://www.kpmmusic.com/en/browse/labels/OMLP/152
I know two more from German channels Pro7 and RTL, but that'd be too specific. Pro7 uses lots of "ExtremeMusic", RTL loves to use "Baby Rock" for commercials since the early 2000s (a KOKA track).
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I found a certain Dutch game show that has a library music track in it.
It’s “Op Goed Geluk” from TROS that uses Walter Murphy’s “Entertainment Theme” from Valentino V-CD 2
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Probably been discussed before, but for Christmas here's documentation of two cuts featured in A Christmas Story.
- Footsteps of Horror 1 by William Farran [Bruton BRM 5], plays throughout the decoder scene.
- Passport To Soho Part 3 by Trevor Duncan [orig. Impress IA 304, reissued on JW 490], which plays right after the decoder scene when Ralphie mutters "Son of a bitch."
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I check(ed) out John_Fred's ceefax shares and because I was curious where the difference to regular teletext service was, I looked up a video about the history.
When one of their competitors came up (4-tel from Channel 4), oh what is playing in the background?
Brain Damage by Keith Mansfield (KPM - Future Perspective) [1982]
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Brain Damage by Keith Mansfield (KPM - Future Perspective) [1982]
One of the many variations on his fabled "Funky Fanfare." For me, Funky Fanfare is the track I'd choose if I had to represent library music with a single example.
Hmm- sounds like a good thread topic.
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Brain Damage by Keith Mansfield (KPM - Future Perspective) [1982]
One of the many variations on his fabled "Funky Fanfare." For me, Funky Fanfare is the track I'd choose if I had to represent library music with a single example.
Hmm- sounds like a good thread topic.
Oh?! I must check the other(s) out! I just recently found the "original" version of "Exhibition" (BRUTON album "Focus", 1984) by Patrick Wilson - I just knew the '87 version from "MUSIC JUKEBOX". And I like both versions to alternate inbetween. Let's see hear how Keith re-interpreted that tune!
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Oh?! I must check the other(s) out!
Covers of Keith Mansfield's Funky Fanfare (1969):
https://www.whosampled.com/Keith-Mansfield/Funky-Fanfare/covered/ (https://www.whosampled.com/Keith-Mansfield/Funky-Fanfare/covered/)
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This old video from YouTube's 1911 April Fools' Day prank in 2011 uses a few pieces from KPM, CPM Archive, and West One Music.
- Cornet Voluntary - John Leach [KPM-0090] (Title card and ending)
- Another Fine Mess - Keith Nichols [KPM-1148 / KPM-0108] (The Irksome Citrus)
- Comedy Capers - Sam Fonteyn [KPM-1147 / KPM-0108] (Buggy Intruder)
- Honky Tonk Rag - Lee Jacobs [CAS-026] (Swing Flummox)
- Vaudeville Chase 1 - Harry Lubin [CAS-033] (Horse & Buggy Crash)
- That's Jazz (c) - Paul Reeves [WOM-140] (Ruth Roll'd)
"Honky Tonk Rag" was also used as the music for the 1911 button added to all videos on that day.
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Went to see The Super Mario Bros. Movie a few days ago, this Cinemark Coca-Cola ad that played after the onslaught of trailers uses the arrangement of "Vesti La Giubba" specifically from Sonoton SCD-100 "Opera Favourites."
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I already posted this in another thread (Tracks ID's) but... I think it belongs here...
One of the tracks at 1:14 is "Blue Bottle" by Frank Barclay...
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Just heard "Hawaiian Happiness" by Jon Jelmer at about 17:31 in this obscure childrens' record:
https://youtu.be/HowuJMhypG4
Immediately recognized it from its usage in SpongeBob.
By the way, anyone here know any of the other library pieces used here? Particularly interested in the Latin music at about 9:35.
I don't know the Latin music in the record, but I do know that Mam'selle Moderne and French Leave (Both Trevor Duncan tracks from Impress IA 174), one of Van Phillips' Light Comedy Transitions (Conroy BM 111), and Wilfred Burns' "News Documentary" (Conroy BM 346) also appear in this as well.
EDIT: I just found "Beano" by Bruce Campbell (Impress IA 157) in that same record just now.
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I must be on a roll, because I found some Disney records that used Synchro-Fox tracks sourced from Capitol Hi-Q records.
Grasshopper and the Ants (youtube.com/watch?v=lhe-qNz7FgI&ab_channel=GregEhrbar) used Jacob Merkur's "Mountaineers Hoedown" (FM 225) and Hugo Friedhofer's "The Nagger" (FM 109), and Jiminy Cricket in Dutch (Yes, that's the actual title) (youtube.com/watch?v=u-3r9lbXk1s&ab_channel=GregEhrbar) uses Jack Belasco's "Monorail" (FM 111).
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In a 2001/2002 educational video about the (now-defunct) discounter chain "PLUS" where they show how to handle the change between the Deutsch Mark and the upcoming Euro there are OMNIMUSIC tracks going on.
Intro and outro: OMNIMUSIC 45 - TRACK 1 (Optimism)
1:50 - OMNIMUSIC 47 - TRACK 12 (Night Out)
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This MTV promo uses a split second of Hail to the Chief by Graham De Wilde (KPM 1273). https://youtu.be/pKih9ZnM0QI
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This State Farm ad uses Phillipe Pares' "Cellar Search" from Bruton BR-0354.
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Just yesterday in that ATMOSPHERE thread that is still ongoing, my favourite track from ATOMOS19, "Dazzle", was actually used by Eurosport, a, as the name suggest, European sports TV channel.
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In this Apple Promo from 1995, at minute 1:00
... "On Course" by Frederic Curtis Schwartz (KPM - Life and Leisure) plays.
EDIT: At 15:15 it plays a track that sounds like from the BBC - very similiar to tracks from ATMOS CD 38 - MAGAZINE.
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I managed to stumble upon a KPM track as being used in one of Total TV's "Hunter" cartoons: "Suddenly It's Swing" by Tommy Watt (at about 1:09 here). This struck me as unusual since, at this point, they were mostly using Winston Sharples' stock cues originally written for Paramount's theatrical cartoons.
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I was slowly losing my mind watching the final lasagnacat video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg) when I noticed the background music and instinctively went to the Bliss Records collection and easily identified the Orchestra Heinz Kiessling - With Love In My Heart by composer Werner Tautz. It's played on loop for almost 4 and a half hours in a video with 2.5 million views.
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Managed to recognize a couple of Shaindlin tunes off of CMR 212 in a bizarre "Pooh for President" special done in Florida - "The Kibitzer", which shows up during a segment with a monkey act (along with a non-library version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Stuart McKay and a raft of other stuff I couldn't ID), and "Trombone Slider", which is heard during a narrated segment with some clowns.
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This holiday movie/special-themed podcast I've started listening to uses Neil Richardson's "Fun in the Sun" for a recurring "History of..." segment.
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Saw a promo for Discovery's upcoming Hustlers Gamblers Crooks today, it uses "Brass and Bongos" by Elliot Ireland and Allessandro Rizzo from KPM 822, which is a remix of Syd Dale's iconic "The Hell Raisers" from KPM 1002.
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I finally caught up on Fargo Season 5, hon and heard a couple of KPM used as muzak:
In a fast food restaurant I think, heard in the background:
In a later episode at Wayne's car showroom:
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Was going through the Rankin/Bass Jackson Five cartoon of the early 70s earlier today when I heard a familiar Harry Bluestone fanfare later released on CPM's archive series, "Award Winner 1". The episode I caught it in was "Cinderjackson", specifically, and it really took me by surprise since they mostly used original music by Maury Laws.
EDIT: Just ID'd "Jazz Fanfare 1", another Bluestone track, as being heard in the same episode.
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I watched Alligator again the other day (1980) and it had one random library shock cut as said alligator bursts up through the pavement. It was Startle 1.
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I recently watched the new Fallout series on Amazon, and it of course featured some library cues already featured in the games, like Jack Shaindlin's "I'm Tickled Pink", but also several other library cues - I recognized Sam Fonteyn's "Journey Into Melody" and to my surprise, "Summer in Love" by Santany/I Marc 4, there's probably more.