Quick, Henry, the Kryptonite!

One of my earliest compilations of music based on one mind-numbing theme.  Hence the graphic design that is more amateurish than my current level of amateurism.

Some versions of the "Superman" themes, and a few songs ABOUT our favorite Kryptonian.  Some of them are pretty bumpin' as in Track One.

1)  Movie Theme - Walter Murphy

2)  Superboy TV Theme

3)  Superman - Herbie Mann

4)  The Adventures of Superman TV Theme

5)  Sound from Krypto / Movie Theme - Let's All Dance with Super Friends cassette

6)  Superman the Animated Series TV Theme (extended)

7)  The Batman / Superman Adventures TV Theme

8)  Movie Theme - Gotham's Greatest

9)  Comic Book Heroes / I'm Your Superman - Rick Springfield

10)  The New Adventures of Superman TV Theme

11)  The New Adventures of Superman Episode Title Music

12)  The New Adventures of Superman TV End Credits

13)  Movie Theme - Super Hero Music cassette

14)  It's Superman - The Supermen

15)  You've Got Possibilities - The Supermen

16)  TV Theme - Ruby-Spears

17)  Movie Theme - Cinema Sound Orchestra

18)  The Superman / Batman Adventures TV Theme

19)  Superboy TV Theme (Filmation cartoon)

20)  SuperPup TV Theme

21)  Movie Theme - Fleischer cartoons

22)  Theme from Superman (original) - Wonderland Space Shuttle

23)  Movie Serial Theme

Yes, the actual cassette labeling for Track Five is "Sound from Krypto," not Krypton.  Also I think the speaking voice sounds a little like a Robin Williams impersonation.

Well, I'll be a three-eyed Kryptonian Babootch!

  

I Embarrassed My Family

In summer of 1976, I was in-between years at OCU (Oklahoma City University).  My girlfriend Joyce was driving an ice-cream truck.

For our nation's Bicentennial, my brother Robert picked up Joyce and I and we drove to Kansas City, where our sister Sue lived with her husband Bob.  We went to a movie, a KC Royals game, and watched some of the TV coverage of the Bicentennial celebrations.

On the morning of Sunday, July 4th, Joyce and I walked up the street to a neighborhood church that burned its mortgage, having just paid it off.

Also on that weekend, we watched Mel Brooks' new Silent Movie.  I embarrassed everybody else by shrieking and contorting with laughter.  But man, it was worth it!

This is the LP release of the film's soundtrack, composed and arranged to perfection by John Morris.

1)  Silent Movie March
2) Sidewalk Oddities; Custom Suit and Acupuncture
3) Burt Reynolds' House
4) Engulf & Devour
5) The Wrong Dog Rag
6) Liza Minnelli and Knights in Armor
7) Coat Routine; Men's Room
8) Anne Bancroft; Rio Bomba Bossa Nova
9) New Flamencos; Jalousie
10) Marcel Marceau
11) Wheelchair Chase
12) Marty Feldman Two Step
13) Babalu
14) Hotel Sleez; Lord of Winos
15) Sneak Preview
16) Film Chase; Coke Machine War
17) Silent Movie March

You can't go wrong with this one!  Your sense of fun will be Engulfed and Devoured!

Silly Trekkin'

Want to hear the lyrics to Goldsmith's "Theme from STAR TREK: The Motion Picture"?  Want to listen to the imitation-Disco LP single stuck into the Search for Spock soundtrack LP?  Want to hear more variations on Courage's theme than you can shake a Tribble at?

Well, my friend, you're in the right place!

1     The Galactic Force Band  Star Trek TV Theme

2    Gene Page  Star Trek TV Theme

3    Gotham’s Greatest    Star Trek TV Theme

4    Gotham’s Greatest    STAR TREK: The Motion Picture Theme

5    Chris Holland   Star Trek TV Theme

6    Nichelle Nichols Theme from Star Trek

7 Now Sound Orchestra Ilia’s Theme from ST:TMP

8 Now Sound Orchestra Star Trek II Theme

9 Now Sound Orchestra ST:TMP Theme

10 Schnauzer Radio Orchestra Star Trek TV Theme

11 The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde Star Trek TV Theme

12 Orion Star Trek Tekkno

13 The Secret Agents Star Trek TV Theme

14 Phil Reavis Star Trek TV Theme

15 Super Hero Orchestra Star Trek TV Theme

16 Ettore Strata Star Trek Suite

17 Ed Willett Star Trek TV Theme

18 Wonderland Space Shuttle Star Trek TV Theme

19 Laserlight Label  Star Trek TV Theme

20 Phil Woods Quintet Star Trek TV Theme

21 London Philharmonic Star Trek TV Theme

22 James Horner The Search for Spock

23 Opie & Anthony Star Trek Rhapsody

24 The Firm Star Trekkin’

So, let your Federation Freak flag fly!

See you Monday.

Fantastic, Honky Tonk Player BARROOM PIANO

This is a relic of Paul Eakins'Gay '90s Village -- 1890s, that is -- and this is player-piano-type ragtime/barroom music, for a generation raised on Gunsmoke.

01. Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
02. School Days
03. My Blue Heaven
04. Col. Bogey
05. My Little Girl
06. Red Wing
07. For All and Forever
08. Devil's Hornpipe
09. My Wild Irish Rose
10. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
11. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
12. Battle Hymn of the Republic
13. Smile a While, Til We Meet Again
14. Where Do You Work a John

So swing on over, pull up a mug o' suds, and kick your way through the sawdust to park your keister next to the bar.

Gay '90s Village!

MA-69 - Final Themes from U.N.C.L.E.

That's it man, game over!

I don't foresee EVER coming across enough more and different versions of Jerry Goldsmith's U.N.C.L.E. theme or other music freatured in the show, to EVER compile another anthology.  So this, the fourth one, is the last!

And here are the contents of the dead man's pockets (That's also the title of a dynamite story by Jack Finney, which may be read here.)

01. The Man from Thrush - The Clee-Shays  (2:00)   1965

02. The Spy - The Guys from U.N.C.L.E. (2:31)   1966

03. Man from America (Medley: Theme from Man from U.N.C.L.E. - America) - The Ring (7:03)   1980

04. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Times (5:14)   1985

05. Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me - Cleaners from Venus (2:58)   1987

06. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - London Theatre Orchestra (2:36)   1996

07. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - TV21 (3:24)   1998

08. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Johnny Pearson and His London Orchestra (2:04)   1999

09. Agent for Love - Girls from U.N.C.L.E. (2:20)   2000

10. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Ray Fischer (2:10)   2001

11. The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. - The Four Corners (1:41)   2001

12. Lament for a Trapped Spy - The Moon-Rays (2:14)   2002

13. Run Spy Run - The Moon-Rays (2:03)   2002

14. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Spy-Fi (2:05)   2003

15. Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me (Slow Version) - Cleaners from Venus (2:52)   2004

16. The Man from Thrush - Jet Set Sweden (3:54)   2005

17. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Los Tortures (1:40)   2005

18. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Paul Brooks (2:44)   2005

19. Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me - The Jennifers (3:02)   2006

20. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Warren Barker Orchestra (2:44)   2006

21. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Countdown (2:31)   2007

22. The Man from Thrush - Movie Sounds Unlimited (2:37)   2008

23. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Chris Rime (featuring Lionel Fortin) (4:56)   2011

24. Napoleon Solo - George Zhen (4:44)   2011

25. Season 1 Theme - Dominik Hauser (1:07)   2012

26. Season 3 Theme - Dominik Hauser (0:41) 2012

27. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - The Grave (2:59)   2012

28. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - West Hell 5 (2:40)   2012

So, for other obsessive completists like me, here's something else to tide you over until the remake movie comes out.

Also included is a PDF of notes and brief commentary.

We wish to thank the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, without whose assistance this compilation would not have been possible.