Library Music Themes
Info Database => Labels => Topic started by: apmnut on June 13, 2025, 07:11:34 PM
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Been seeing a few things related to this lesser known library pop up lately on eBay, felt like it was time to give this company its time in the sun.
Obscure US tape library established in 1969 under Shoreham Music Corp. and GLO Publishing Company, and run by library music entrepreneur Gordon Zahler, essentially an expansion of his older General Music Corporation music/sound effects library. The contents of this library totaled well over a whopping 5,000 tracks (as confirmed in a 1972 Billboard article describing the library, the biography "Strange As It Seems" elaborates the number as being around 5,500), many of them licensed from various European sources (mainly Italian composers, but ASCAP has a few tracks from German composers like Herbert Thusiek and Horst Ackermann/Fritz Spannuth under Shoreham in their database), including 1,400 which were "original tunes on which Globe controls the copyrights", as per the Billboard article. The library also distributed sound effects, under the "Globe Sound" label.
The library was acquired in 1972 by NY closed circuit television firm Project 7, Inc., and surviving sound effect reels mention the company as "a division of Project 7". No idea on when the library shuttered, but I've seen a listing of a company in Chicago ("Shield Productions") in the 1985/86 Audio-Video Market Place directory as having "Globe" as their sound effects library of choice.
As I have no access to a catalog or anything that would reveal a discography for this label, here's a list of tracks under Shoreham in ASCAP that I've no doubt are from the "Globe" iteration of Gordon's library:
Beautiful Things - Gino Mescoli, Vito Pallavicini
Black Panther - Desy Lumini
Blue Waltz - Willy Bestgen, Wolfgang Priedoehl, Emil Wolf
Bohemian Forest - H. Haas
Boxer (I and II) - Stefano Torossi
Brite and Lite - Edward Greely
Broad Romantic - Edward Greely
Charge - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Cheers to You - Bruce Alan Cadkin
City Travel - Edward Greely
Colombe - Paolo Renosto
Coral Reef - Ernest Zeiner (originally released on the Polyband album "Und Dazu Musik")
Coral Reef - Antonio Luciani
Dancing in the Moondust - Fritz Spannuth, Horst Respich (originally released on the Contour album "In Search of Far Horizons")
Dark Mystery - Edward Greely
The Deserted Track - Stefano Torossi
Disputed Territory - Bruce Alan Cadkin, Rita O'Neill
Down in the City - Francisco Potenza
Electrospeed - Ugo Fusco, Guiliano Sorgini
Engines - Paolo Renosto
Escape - Paolo Renosto
Firm (A B) - Oronzo Di Fillipi
Flooded Country - Antonio Luciani
Flying Cakes - Fernando C. Mainardi
For the Kiddies - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Gentleman Thief - Ernani Migioli
Giesla - Paolo Renosto
Green Meadows - Giorgio Sabelli
Happy Whole World - Herbert Thuesk
Hard Work - Bruce Alan Cadkin, Rita O'Neill
I'm Grateful - Ernani Migioli
In Dispute - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Insect Revue - George Bruns
It's a Mystery - Edward Greely
Jewel - Ferroni Raimero
Johnny's March - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Little Crazy Girl - Ennio Pellegrini
Little Song - Enrico Cortese
Mare Tranquillatis - Gunnahar Erec (originally released on the Contour album "In Search of Far Horizons")
Marisa - Paolo Renesto
Mexican Happy Dance - Herbert Thuesk
Mind Blower - Alessandro Alessandroni
Moon Over Scandinavia - Fred Spannuth, Martin Laiser (originally released on the Contour album "In Search of Far Horizons")
Motorcar Driver A - Stefano Torossi
Mountains and Valleys - Franceso Potenza
The Murderous Scythe - Palma De Luca
My Cousin Keeps You Company - Gino Messcoli, Vito Pallavicini
My Old Virginia - Herbert Thuesk
Nessun Altra- Gino Messcoli, Vito Pallavicini
Night Under the Stars - Ernest Zeiner
Nighttime - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Not Now - Bruce Alan Cadkin, Rita O'Neill
Ode Per Soledad - Elvio Monti
Piacevole - Luigi Zito
Ping - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Plankton - Antonio Luciani
The Quickly Bird - Karl Grell
Retreat - Enrico Cortese
Right Choice - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Rugby - Stefano Torossi
Ruins - Enrico Cortese
Samba di Luna - Alf Beckstein, Horst Respich (originally released on the Contour album "In Search of Far Horizons")
Senso Unico - Ennio Pellegrinni
So Young and Tender - Ennio Pellegrinni
Song from the East - Bruce Alan Cadkin
Sports March #2 - Bruce Alan Cadkin, Rita O'Neill
Sunny Day - Willy Bestgen, Cornelius Peeters
Swinging in Moscow - Herbert Thusek
Tango del Mare - Luigi Pulci, Nicola Salerno
Theme for Monica - Paolo Renosto
Traffic - Paolo Renosto
Transparencies - Antonio Luicani
Ultima Tarentella - Ingazio Privitera
We Are Moving Forward - Bruce Alan Cadkin
What's Up - Edward Greely
When Sunday Comes - Gino Messcoli, Vito Pallavicini
Who's Bossa - Luigi Cerri
Without Return - Palma De Luca