Have an Ultimate New Year!

I bought this 1999 release soon after it hit the shelves.

01. The Adventures of Superman (1:23)

02. Superman: The Movie - Main Title (4:34)

03. The Trip To Earth (2:45)

04. Leaving Home (3:57)

05. Superfeats (3:21)

06. Love Theme From Superman (5:37)

07. Superman: The Columbia Serial (1:01)

08. It's Superman (3:03)

09. Fanfare/Clark Kent Screws Up (3:36)

10. Love Theme From Superman II/Flying (3:28)

11. Phantasmagoria On Themes from It's a Bird ... (5:38)

12. Honeymoon Hotel (3:30)

13. March of the Villains (3:42)

14. Supergirl - Main Title (2:46)

15. Main Title - Superman III (The Streets of Metropolis) (5:23)

16. Superman: The Max Fleischer Cartoon (1:37)

Why o why?  “Money, my dear boy.”  You could argue that this is a handy compendium for those who are fans, but not fans enough to have rounded up the original recordings.

At least they admit these aren’t the originals.  And here’s the rub, unless you’re one of those lazy semi-fans:  To the extent that these performances deviate from the original recordings, they’re worthless.  And to the extent that they replicate the original recordings (nowhere, in fact), they’re unnecessary!

Well, now you may grouse for yourself.  What do you think?

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See you Monday!

  

You May Wax Rhapsodic!

Yup, this collection of film music by horror maestro Hans Salter might fix you right up!

01. Maya Theme (0:54)

02. Maya Goes on an Expedition (2:23)

03. Terry in Jeopardy (2:02)

04. Terry's Escape (1:33)

05. Jungle (1:41)

06. Maya to the Rescue (1:49)

07. Crowded City Bazaar (1:12)

08. Tiger Hunt (1:33)

09. Bombay (1:42)

10. Gateway to India (2:13)

11. Tea and Crumpets (2:08)

12. Night in Calcutta (1:42)

13. Ferocious Animals (1:14)

14. Sounds of Bengal (1:36)

15. Star of India (1:09)

16. Maya's Mud Bath (1:55)

17. Kashmir Dancers (1:07)

18. Warm Friendship (2:16)

19. Title Music; End Title (1:45)

20. Horror Rhapsody Suite: Son of Frankenstein / The Mummy's Hand / Black Friday / Man Made Monster (24:42)

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That's all until FRIDAY, HALLOWEEN, when we'll have another NEW HALLOWEEN MUSIC COMP, kiddies!

  

You Too May Be Remarkable

And then I can meet ya!

Until then, listen to this introspective, interesting music.

01. Thomas de Hartmann - Main Title - Father & Son (3:21)

02. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - Boyhood in Kars (3:56)

03. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Duel (The Artillery Range - The Question) (3:03)

04. Thomas de Hartmann - 'American Canary' (1:25)

05. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - At the Ruins of Ani (3:08)

06. Thomas de Hartmann - Prince Lubovedsky (3:59)

07. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Gobi Desert (4:01)

08. Thomas de Hartmann and Laurence Rosenthal - The Expedition Fails (The Stilts - Death of Soloviev - Departure) (5:26)

09. Laurence Rosenthal - The Journey (5:09)

10. Thomas de Hartmann - The Great Prayer (5:18)

11. traditional - The Contest of the Ashokhs (3:43)

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I trust you too may be fascinated.

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See you Monday.

  

Biddy-Biddy, BUCK!

While the show Buck Rogers in the 25th Century had a lot of silly aspects, Stu Phillips's music was pretty boffo.

01. Cosmic Forces (0:37)

02. Song from Buck Rogers (Suspension) (3:01)

03. The Draconia / Buck Awakens (2:07)

04. Princess Ardala / Seduction (2:47)

05. Buck's Heroics (1:46)

06. Introducing: Twiki & Dr. Theo (1:07)

07. Pirate Attack (2:25)

08. Buck Returns to Earth (2:41)

09. Dead City/Attack of the Mutants (3:55)

10. Something Kinda Funky (3:09)

11. Buck Vs. Tigerman (2:47)

12. Fanfare & Appearance of Draco (2:12)

13. Tailpipe Torpedo (2:12)

14. Wilma Saves Buck / What An Ending (2:45)

15. Song from Buck Rogers (Suspension) reprise (2:22)

16. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV Theme (0:52)

17. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV Theme (Narrated) (1:10)

18. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century End Credits (0:30)

19. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Neil Norman) (1:32)

20. Buck Rogers Extended Theme (2:26)

21. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (edit) (1:12)

This contains a lot of "official" tracks plus some "bonus tracks" from somebody at the Final Fantasy Shrine Forum (now defunct).  The last track is an edit I attempted in the 1980s using two cassette decks and a PAUSE button.

Another edit (a mite better) of the Buck theme is found in my Thanksgiving 2024 comp, MA-204 - The Sound of Adventure!

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See you on Thursday for the commencement of 2025's July SPOCKebration!

  

Be Cool, Goolies!

This file was assembled by one or more folks from the good ole Final Fantasy Shrine Forums.

I cleaned it all up a bit and regularized things.

01. Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies TV Theme (1:15)

02. Goolie Get-Together TV Theme (1:03)

03. Monster Cookbook (2:53)

04. When I Grow Up (3:08)

05. Lights Out (3:10)

06. Monsters on Parade (3:07)

07. The Monster Trio (2:53)

08. Super Ghoul (3:08)

09. Feed the Ghost Some Garlic (2:53)

10. Midnight (3:08)

11. Darlin' Darlin' (2:52)

12. Kings and Queens (3:07)

13. Shadows (2:53)

14. A Lovely Night for Scaring (3:08)

15. Witches Brew (2:53)

16. Creeper Crawler (3:07)

17. The Goolie Swing (2:53)

18. Listen for the Bells (3:07)

19. Be Kind to Monsters Week (3:07)

20. What's in the Bag? (2:50)

21. When the Moon Is full (3:08)

22. Goolie Picnic (2:52)

23. Little Texas Goolie (2:52)

24. Noises (2:53)

25. Where You Going, Little Ghoul? (3:08)

26. Ghoul School (2:53)

27. Chick-a-Boom (3:08)

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See ya Thursday, if ya don't chicken out!

  

Don't Keep THIS Secret!

This 1984 cassette is technically "various artists," but most of the performances are by guitarist Billy Strange.  The other couple are by Neil Norman.

01 - Octopussy - Neil Norman

02 - I Spy - Billy Strange

03 - Reilly, Ace of spies - The Olympic Orchestra

04 - Casino Royale - Billy Strange

05 - Ipcress File (A Man Alone) - Billy Strange

06 - Thunderball - Billy Strange

07 - The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Billy Strange

08 - The Prisoner - Neil Norman

09 - The James Bond Theme - Billy Strange

10 - Our Man Flint - Billy Strange

11 - Moonraker - Neil Norman

12 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Billy Strange

13 - Run Spy Run - Billy Strange

14 - Get Smart - Billy Strange

15 - You Only Live Twice - Billy Strange

16 - 007 - Billy Strange

17 - Goldfinger - Billy Strange

18 - The Rockford Flies - Billy Strange

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See ya Monday, fellow followers of fun!

Three Exclamation Points !!!

It's a 1966 album of James Bond themes.

01. Goldfinger Theme (2:28)

02. Violence! (3:08)

03. From Russia with Love (3:22)

04. Blues for Dr. No (3:04)

05. Pussy Galore Meets Bond (2:57)

06. James Bond Theme (2:57)

07. "M" Joins the Hunt (4:09)

08. A Gilded Corpse (3:15)

09. Warm and Deadly (3:46)

10. Death of Goldfinger (2:35)

Doubtless the "Zero Zero Seven" moniker is a group of studio performers.

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But you can still have fun!  See you Monday.

  

Classic Thrillers

I was a thrilled kid of 15 or 16 when I watched the TV movies The Night Stalker and its follow-up The Night Strangler.

Part of the fun and thrill was the music of Robert Cobert.  But as you will hear, he wrote other music for eerie things!

01. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Suite (1968) - Robert Cobert (11:40)

02. Dead of Night - A Darkness at Blaseidon Suite (1969) - Robert Cobert (3:00)

03. The Night Stalker Suite (1972) - Robert Cobert (4:00)

04. The Night Strangler Suite (1973) - Robert Cobert (5:33)

05. Dracula Suite (1974) - Robert Cobert (8:10)

06. Trilogy of Terror Suite (1975) - Robert Cobert (6:10)

07. Burnt Offerings Suite (1976) - Robert Cobert (8:40)

08. Dead of Night Suite (1977) - Robert Cobert (13:33)

09. Curse of the Black Widow Suite (1977) - Robert Cobert (7:10)

10. Dark Shadows Suite (1991) - Robert Cobert (8:44)

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Happy hauntings, fellow fearmongers!  Hope you fall in love too!  See you Thursday.

  

Give 'em the Finger!

... Because a deformed ring finger was one of the ways to detect AN INVADER.

This is a bootleg from who knows where.

Disc 1 - 38 Tracks, 40 minutes

Disc 2 - 56 Tracks, 52 minutes

The 1967-68 was instrumental in making a bunch of us Sixties kids distrustful of the Space Brother scenarios promulgated by the likes of George Adamski or Truman Bethurum.  What if the aliens weren't here to help ... they were just HUNGRY!?!?!?

This 2-disc file of Dominic Frontiere's atmospheric music is in one big file.

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See ya Monday!

  

I Love 'em!

... That's how I picked the topics to share in February, the month of love as they say.

A few years ago I went through all available releases of this great score to assemble my own.  None of the commercial releases has "everything," as evidenced by the ten-second segment I pulled from the film, "Superspeed Letter."

DISC ONE:

01. Main Title and Argo City (3:20)

02. Argo City Mall (1:01)

03. The Butterfly (1:41)

04. The Journey Begins (1:17)

05. Arrival on Earth / Flying Ballet (5:42)

06. Chicago Lights / Street Attack (2:28)

07. A New School (2:18)

08. Superspeed Letter (0:10)

09. The Superman Poster (Goldsmith / Williams) (0:56)

10. The Map (1:15)

11.  Ethan Spellbound (2:18)

12. The Monster Tractor (7:39)

13. First Kiss / The Monster Storm (4:35)

14. The Bracelet (2:02)

15. Where Is She? / The Monster Bumper Cars (3:02)

16. The Flying Bumper Car (1:31)

17. Where's Linda? (1:26)

18. Black Magic (4:13)

19. The Phantom Zone (3:47)

20. The Vortex / The End of Zaltar (5:55)

21. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (short version) (12:12)

DISC TWO:

01. Overture (6:14)

02. Main Title and Argo City (Alternate) (3:16)

03. Flying Ballet (Alternate) (2:18)

04. The Map (Alternate) (1:18)

05. The Monster Bumper Cars (Film Version) (1:47)

06. First Kiss / The Monster Storm (4:40)

07. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (long version) (Alternate) (13:33)

08. What Is Love? (Howard Jones) (6:35)

09. New Song (Howard Jones) (4:20)

10. Final Showdown and Victory / End Title (long version) (13:44)

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Disc One PERMANENT LINK.

Disc Two PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Thursday!

  

Twenty Minutes of DYNAMITE!

Dare you remember when what adults called "camp," we called adventure?

Then you're in luck now, baby!

When I received this album I had to play it on big brother's record player, but he put up with it once in awhile.

01. Batman Theme (2:32)

02. Batman Riddles the Riddler - Or - (Hi Diddle Riddle) (1:36)

03. Batusi A-Go! Go! (I Shouldn't Wish To Attract Attention) (1:32)

04. Two Perfectly Ordinary People - Or - (!!!) (0:41)

05. Holy Hole-in-the-Doughnut! - Or - (Robin, You've Done It Again) (1:53)

06. Batman Pows the Penguin - Or - (Aha, My Fine-Feathered Finks!) (1:46)

07. To the Batmobile (2:13)

08. Batman Blues (1:42)

09. Holy Flypaper! (2:57)

10. Batman Thaws Mr Freeze - Or - (That's The Way The Ice-Cube Crumbles!) (2:01)

11. Gotham City (1:59)

12. Zelda Tempts Batman - Or - (Must He Go It Alone????) (2:29)

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PERMANENT LINK.

Your adult mind will call it cheesy, but your eight-year-old self will smell the cheese and live the thrill at the same time.

See you on Thursday, if you don't pass out from nostalgia first!

  

Thankful for ... ADVENTURE!

Yup, on this Thanksgiving Day, the Super Blog and the Record Round-Up are helping you be thankful by reminding you of all the thrills that keep yer ole heart pumpin' ...

This project began in the late 1970s when I held the condenser mic of my cassette recorder up to the speaker of our TV and recorded the audio of the opening credits of Jonny Quest and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Earlier attempts at this grouping were shared as MA-06 - Science Fiction & Fantasy Cassette.

Here's what we got:

01 - Star Wars Suite - John Williams - 1977  (12:39)

02 - The Martian Chronicles Theme - Stanley Myers - 1980  (2:03)

03 - Battlestar Galactica - Erich Kunzel / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - 1984  (3:26)

04 - The Wild Wild West (4th season edit) - Richard Markowitz - 1968  (1:24)

05 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (edit) - Stu Phillips - 1979  (1:24)

06 - Prelude - Outer Space - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann - 1951  (1:49)

07 - Doctor Who - Ron Grainer - 1980  (2:43)

08 - Tales of the Gold Monkey - Mike Post & Pete Carpenter - 1982  (1:02)

09 - Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Jerry Goldsmith - arr Fried - 1983  (1:19)

10 - Scarecrow and Mrs King - Arthur B Rubinstein - 1983  (1:16)

11 - Star Trek II and III Suite - James Horner - 1982  (13:44)

12 - Mission Impossible ’88 - Main Title - Lalo Schifrin - 1988  (1:04)

13 - Also Sprach Zarathustra (excerpt) - Richard Strauss - 1968  (1:39)

14 - The Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarsbury - 1981  (1:47)

15 - Themes from ET - Walter Murphy - 1982  (3:53)

16 - Alien - End Titles - Howard Hanson - 1979  (2:50)

17 - Twilight Zone the Movie - Theme and Overture (edit) - Marius Constant and Jerry Goldsmith - 1983  (5:55)

18 - Jonny Quest (edit - no FX) - Hoyt Curtin - 1964  (2:27)

19 - The Flash (no FX) - Danny Elfman - 1990  (1:33)

20 - Star Trek the Motion Picture - Main and End titles (edit) - Jerry Goldsmith - 1979  (3:25)

21 - System 9 - Mark  Alfred - markssuperblog.blogspot.com - 2024  (8:30)

Full Space Ahead, Junior Spacers!

Beside the tracks marked “edit,” the “Star Wars Suite” and “Star Trek II and III Suite” are also blended by me from the soundtrack releases.

The final track, my space de resistance, is a montage of SF excerpts from film and TV from the last seventy-some years.  (A PDF of the sources is enclosed.)  These dialogue excerpts are laid upon a bed of background fx which contains sounds from Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Wars, The Jetsons, The Bionic Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Ghost, and perhaps some others.  Underlaying it all is the haunting sound of NASA’s Voyager Recordings, which may be found here. --- Symphonies of the Planets  -- 

You might say this is my sci-fi answer to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9.”  What do you think?

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https://www.filefactory.com/file/6o1mgy2l2hno/MA-204.rar

See you on Monday for the beginning of SPOCKY CHRISTMAS 2024!

  

An Interesting Product of Its Time

This is the 1982 OST of the animated film.

Like many children's adaptations of classics, it has its weaknesses but still wields much power for those who surrender to the spell.

01. The Last Unicorn - America (3:11)

02. Man's Road - America (3:25)

03. In the Sea - America (3:20)

04. Now That I'm a Woman - Katie Irving (2:45)

05. That's All I've Got to Say - Jeff Bridges, Katie Irving (2:48)

06. The Last Unicorn, Part 2 - America (3:10)

07. Forest Awakens: The Unicorn Forest / The Hunters - London Symphony Orchestra (2:13)

08. Red Soup - London Symphony Orchestra (0:35)

09. Red Bull Attacks - London Symphony Orchestra (3:37)

10. The Cat - London Symphony Orchestra (1:43)

11. The Tree - London Symphony Orchestra (1:23)

12. Haggard's Unicorns - London Symphony Orchestra (2:15)

13. Bull-Unicorn-Woman - London Symphony Orchestra (2:50)

14. Unicorns in the Sea - London Symphony Orchestra (1:55)

15. Unicorn and Lír - London Symphony Orchestra, America (3:30)

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See you on Thursday!

  

It Says So Right on the Label

This album is from 1966, part of the era during which TV shows actually HAD themes.  And, these themes are so amazing, they were covered dozens of times!

01. King Kong (2:26)

02. It's About Time (2:14)

03. Alice Is Coming to Tea (3:03)

04. Theme from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1:45)

05. Batman (3:00)

06. Tarzan (3:06)

07. Flipper (2:17)

08. The Mystery Theme (3:16)

09. Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion (2:23)

10. Green Hornet Theme (2:09)

Pretty competent, more so than I expected considering the plethora of cash-in albums around this date.  All vocals are OK.

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“Batman” is kinda disappointing because of the slow tempo.  “Tarzan” has several inserts of the Tarzan yell.  The “Special Mystery Theme” is just the Lone Ranger Overture.  The singer of “Clarence” does a pretty good Roger Miller imitation.  Sadly, the last track has folks chanting “Green Hornet” a la “Batman.”

See you Thursday, Bat-Fans!

  

A WATCHMEN Projex

This compilation is from a 2009 blog post from the J. Projex.

DISC ONE:

1. MTV Theme "The Man on the Moon" - Jonathan Elias & John Petersen

2. Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

3. The Times They are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan

4. 99 Luftballons - Nena

5. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

6. Ride of the Valkyries - Budapest Symphony Orchestra

7. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

8. I'm Your Boogie Man - K.C. & the Sunshine Band

9. You're My Thrill - Billie Holiday

10. Protest - Philip Glass

11. Something She Has to Do - Philip Glass

12. Pruit Igoe & Prophecies - Philip Glass

13. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Studio group

14. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

15. Clyde - Waylon Jennings

16. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

17. The Outer Limits Theme - Dominic Frontiere

18. Desolation Row - My Chemical Romance

19. First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen

DISC TWO:

Trailer & Bonus Music:

1. Pirate Jenny [Tales of the Black Freighter] - Nina Simone

2. The Beginning is the End is the Beginning [Trailer 1] - The Smashing Pumpkins

3. Take A Bow [Trailer 2] - Muse

4. Dionysus [TV Spot] - Jocelyn Pook

5. Angel [Online Character Profiles] - Massive Attack

6. 99 Red Balloons (English Version) - Nena

7. Pruit Igoe (Original LP Version) - Philip Glass

8. Prophecies (Original LP Version) - Philip Glass

9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Original) - Tears For Fears

10. All Along the Watchtower (Original) - Bob Dylan

11. Desolation Row (Original) - Bob Dylan

I regularized the volume, created disc art, and formatted titles and metadata.

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See you Monday.

  

She's Wild! She's Cool! She's a Spy! She's a Girl!

And she looks spiffy in go-go boots, especially the white-vinyl kind.

This 1966 album swings a bit in the same campy, wants-to-be-hep style as the show did.

01. Jerry Goldsmith - The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1:33)

02. Dave Grusin - Shall We Gather at the Boat Dock (2:14)

03. Dave Grusin - Out of the Frying Pan (2:07)

04. Dave Grusin - April (2:22)

05. Dave Grusin - Mother Muffin (2:07)

06. Teddy Randazzo - Movin' On (2:15)

07. Dave Grusin - The GirlfFrom U.N.C.L.E. (2:38)

08. Richard Shores - Sneaky Search (2:54)

09. Dave Grusin - Somewhere in Greece (2:07)

10. Teddy Randazzo - The Countess (2:58)

11. Richard Shores - Bomb Scare (2:23)

12. Dave Grusin - Follow the T.H.R.U.S.H. (2:26)

It's still rots o' fun.

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. 

See you Thursday!
  

Don't Drop That Orb!

Until the orb shines again, have fun ridin' down memory lane with Brisco.

VA - Adventures of Brisco County OST

 

 

01 - Main Title - Randy Edelman

 

“No Man’s Land”

(Stephen Graziano)

02 - Brisco Rides

03 - Tumbling

04 - Battle Wagon Arrives

05 - Attack on the Town Pt  1

06 - Future vs Future

 

“Brisco in Jalisco”

(Stephen Graziano)

07 - Cheating at Cards

08 - Map Transition

09 - The Battle

10 - Ambush

11 - Finale

 

“Socrates’ Sister”

(Stephen Graziano)

12 - Chasing Randolph

13 - Science

14 - The Wagon

15 - Confrontation

 

“Riverboat”

(Velton Ray Bunch)

16 - The Hard Way

17 - Brisco Helps Wylie

18 - The Con

19 - The Boxing Match

 

“Pirates!”

(Stephen Graziano)

20 - Pirates of Nevada

21 - The Bravest Man

22 - Bar Fight

23 - Confrontation

24 - Finale

 

“Senior Spirit”

(Velton Ray Bunch)

25 - Bly Takes Jason

26 - Faith

27 - The Wrong Orb

 

 

“Brisco for the Defense”

(Stephen Graziano)

28 - Brisco

29 - Cattle Drive

30 - Finale

 

“Showdown”

(Velton Ray Bunch)

31 - Bar Fight

32 - Does This Work Ever End

33 - The Swimming Hole

34 - Showdown

 

“Crystal Hawks”

(Velton Ray Bunch)

35 - Brisco in the Rain

36 - Meet Crystal Hawks

37 - Street Chase

38 - Brisco’s Destiny

39 - Brisco vs Bly

 

40 - End Credits - Randy Edelman

County

See you Thursday, fellow Brisco-neers!