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2 unknown cues from Nosferatu (Kartes VHS/Thunderbird Films), Possibly Valentino

Started by Certainly1080, November 02, 2026, 01:39:37 AM

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Certainly1080

A while back I made a thread on the 1974 Thunderbird Films print of Nosferatu to catalog all the cues it used. Most of them came from Major Records/Valentino LPs. While I was able to find the vast majority of them, there are still two more cues that remain unidentified. I've tried going through as many Valentino releases as possible but to no avail. I'm wondering if it's on one of the LPs that isn't availble online or if there's a small chance the cues are from another library entirely.

The first track is more of an orchestral mood-setting piece. (1:36)
Cue two is an eerie sounding vipraphone solo. (1:03)

h__ps://mega.nz/folder/6QEHCB4A#KgM8BVXLKRD-mSVo-BMEvQ

If these are both Valentino cues, they'd have to be from 1974 at most since that's when the print was made.

Bronic

The second has to be something from Capitol. Another show I do similar research also sourced their music mainly from Capitol/Valentino and there are some missing cues including a similar vibraphone piece:

https://vocaroo.com/1fnBatEYpCr6

Certainly1080

After recording the second cue to do a Google search, one of the results was a kids cassette tape called "Think About Outer Space" from the Little Thinkers series. It appears to use 5 vibraphone tracks that almost certainly came from the same LP the Nosferatu cue was originally on. That includes 'cue 2' itself that I uploaded earlier. Guess that's how Google 'identified' it. Weirdly it's shorter on the Outer Space tape but also contains a section that's not in the Nosferatu version; I think the cue might've been edited there like several others on the Thunderbird print. This unfortunately doesn't tell us the track titles nor the exact release they came from, but it's a start. I've uploaded the Think About Outer Space cues with the voice-over removed for reference:

h<>ps://mega.nz/folder/nZ13lDgL#AD3Gj8CQFsEZg8J5ozIgNA

Quote from: Bronic on November 02, 2026, 04:59:43 PMThe second has to be something from Capitol. Another show I do similar research also sourced their music mainly from Capitol/Valentino and there are some missing cues including a similar vibraphone piece:

https://vocaroo.com/1fnBatEYpCr6
Thanks for the upload! That sounds very much like the pieces I heard on that Outer Space cassette. What makes me think the cues are from Valentino now is that Little Thinkers apparently licensed their music from them. With that said, maybe there's a chance Capitol licensed the vibraphone cues and released them at some point too.