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, unexepcted 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