Apples and Alternates

            The amazingly talented TV-film composer Gerald Fried passed on February 17, 2023. He composed music for early films of Stanley Kubrick, as well as lesser horror flicks like The Return of Dracula and I Bury the Living. He scored hundreds of TV episodes, including Gilligan’s Island, It's About Time, Mission: Impossible, and Star Trek TOS.

            His contribution to 45 episodes of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is our focus for this month!

            Gerald Fried—SALUTE!

The Apple-a-Day Affair

(March 24, 1967)

Tracks 1-5 ­– 24:19

 

4th Season Alternate Titles

(recorded July 28, 1967)

Tracks 6-11 – 03:25

 

The Test Tube Killer Affair

(September 18, 1967)

Tracks 12-15 – 20:08

 

TOTAL TIME:  48:25

The third-season "Apple-a-Day" has some fine slinky-cum-insouciant exposition-chase music.

Tracks 6-11 are various takes of various Fried arrangements for Season Four's theme.  All were rejected.  For the life of me, I can't figure out if the wailing solo instrument is a filtered guitar, or an electrified clarinet, or ...?

To my mind, they would have signaled a break from the Third Season and its silliness.

FRIED: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. -- Disc 7

Enjoy this musical trip around the world, campers! See you on Monday.