Author Topic: Golden Book Video unknowns  (Read 9649 times)

kablamatic

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Golden Book Video unknowns
« on: March 18, 2023, 11:38:30 PM »
Golden Book Video was the first place I started hearing library music when I was young. It was years after watching "Herbert the Timid Dragon" from "3 Mercer Mayer Stories" that I immediately recognized "Royal Entrance" by Dick Walter in another source: Spongebob Squarepants. The episode was "Sleepy Time", in which there was a scene where Spongebob enters Squidward's dream and when Spongebob first interrupts Squidward in the audience, the cue would play as the king would scold Squidward for halting his performance. And it later occurred to me that the music being used in Spongebob was also used in Golden Books' video series.

Here are a bunch of tracks I am interested in identifying from select stories from various video titles:

dropbox.com/scl/fo/9jjnf316uputdyy92h75o/h?dl=0&rlkey=ochzk1b3cm6jpyh34k5xv1g72

musictheorist

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2023, 05:27:57 AM »
The story, David and Goliath, at the end uses "Royal Sovereign (a)" by Keith Mansfield from KPM 1278.

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2023, 05:50:08 PM »
The story, David and Goliath, at the end uses "Royal Sovereign (a)" by Keith Mansfield from KPM 1278.

Thanks! Saw your edit on the Production Music Wiki. Keep it up!

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2023, 11:28:55 PM »
Noah's Ark
- Before The Beginning (a) by Graham de Wilde [KPM 1333/KPM 1333 CD]

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2023, 06:37:45 AM »
Updated as I've found two tracks from "The Wolf and the Kids": "The Petulant Penguin" by Dennis Farnon from Conroy BMLP 083 "Dennis Farnon's Comedy Cuts 1 & 2" (with the pitch raised up 3 semitones higher) and "Lumbering Gait" by Alec Gould from KPM 1187 "The Nature of Woodwind".

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2023, 07:59:24 AM »
Little Toad is 'Elephant Dance' by Harry Pitch (Studio G)
Noah 5 is Dick Walter's 'Quiet Reflection' (KPM)

mediafire.com/file/w0x45hc9lnua5tw/Elephant+Dance.mp3/file

mediafire.com/file/752344820un21so/Dick+Walter+-+Quiet+Reflections.flac/file
« Last Edit: March 25, 2023, 08:20:16 AM by Retronic »

musictheorist

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2023, 09:13:51 AM »
Little Toad is 'Elephant Dance' by Harry Pitch (Studio G)
Noah 5 is Dick Walter's 'Quiet Reflection' (KPM)

mediafire.com/file/w0x45hc9lnua5tw/Elephant+Dance.mp3/file

mediafire.com/file/752344820un21so/Dick+Walter+-+Quiet+Reflections.flac/file


Nice, now the Emil Ascher, Inc. libraries are now a possible guess for the missing music in addition to Capitol’s Media Music which was in Scuffy the Tugboat.

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2023, 06:23:55 PM »
Thanks, Retronic!

Update: I've just re-recorded one of the unknown "Little Toad" tracks, because the previous recording had an error sound from my laptop play while I was recording the background audio through Audacity. Plus, I've added two more unknown "Noah's Ark" tracks as they are the remainder of all the unknowns for that segment, which leaves us with six unknown tracks left to identify.

EDIT: Identified another track; this time from "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" from "Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales": "Return of the Keystone Cops" by David Lindup from KPM 1039 "Light Imitations - Vol. III".
« Last Edit: March 25, 2023, 08:53:37 PM by kablamatic »

Retronic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2023, 11:31:51 AM »
Noah6 is Nature's Colours by Eugene Cines

mediafire.com/file/4lqgpbgnlbmhc2y/Eugene+Cines+-+Nature's+Colours.flac/file

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2023, 04:34:16 PM »
Noah6 is Nature's Colours by Eugene Cines

mediafire.com/file/4lqgpbgnlbmhc2y/Eugene+Cines+-+Nature's+Colours.flac/file

Thanks! I don't know how I missed this one, but the music editors must have used the hell out of this album.

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2023, 12:51:21 PM »
Littletoad 2 is Gentle Rain by Sam Sklair from KPM 1223 'Small Is Beautiful'




musictheorist

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2023, 08:09:27 AM »
Golden Book Video was the first place I started hearing library music when I was young. It was years after watching "Herbert the Timid Dragon" from "3 Mercer Mayer Stories" that I immediately recognized "Royal Entrance" by Dick Walter in another source: Spongebob Squarepants. The episode was "Sleepy Time", in which there was a scene where Spongebob enters Squidward's dream and when Spongebob first interrupts Squidward in the audience, the cue would play as the king would scold Squidward for halting his performance. And it later occurred to me that the music being used in Spongebob was also used in Golden Books' video series.

Here are a bunch of tracks I am interested in identifying from select stories from various video titles:

dropbox.com/scl/fo/9jjnf316uputdyy92h75o/h?dl=0&rlkey=ochzk1b3cm6jpyh34k5xv1g72

More music has been found as I looked over the Theodore Goes to Sea segment and the 3 Hugga Bunch Stories video.

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2023, 06:33:59 AM »
ID'd the first two Noah tracks as "Passing Meadows" by Johnny Pearson from KPM 1191 "Landscapes / Things To Come / New Innovations Suite".

Also added more tracks to the folder from the stories "What Was That!", "Theodore Mouse Goes to Sea" and one from "The House That Had Enough".

NOTE: The newly added "huggabunch" cue is a more full version of the unknown cue from "Little Toad to the Rescue", minus the added trombone.
« Last Edit: April 05, 2023, 06:38:47 AM by kablamatic »

Retronic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2023, 08:20:17 AM »
whatwasthat4 was in Prisoner Cell Block H- likely Bruton

The others you may find by searching for instrument- ie, 'accordian'
I can check a couple of catalogues over the weekend
If you have a list of the ones found so far you can share, it'll have some clues

kablamatic

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Re: Golden Book Video unknowns
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2023, 12:34:21 AM »
whatwasthat4 was in Prisoner Cell Block H- likely Bruton

Actually, it's from KPM 1180 "Tender Emotions"; "Helping Hands" by James Clarke. Kudos to musictheorist for identifying that one!
« Last Edit: April 08, 2023, 12:37:18 AM by kablamatic »