Working across a wide range of musical mediums, Ivor Novello Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Daniel Pemberton has embraced everything from large scale orchestral and choral works to innovative electronic sound design, live salsa bands to post-rock guitar line-ups.
From The Counselor, The Awakening and the upcoming Steve Jobs film, to name a few, Pemberton has delivered another eclectic score – this time Guy Ritchie’s latest movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in theatres Friday, August 14.
Fans of the TV show are familiar with the theme music from composer Jerry Goldsmith, with additional music for the various seasons provided by Morton Stevens, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin, Gerald Fried, Robert Drasnin and Nelson Riddle.
Now comes the film version and a 5-star, international score that exudes the 1960’s as if it was pulled from a time vault. You’re right into the film from the first musical note and drum beat.
Recently the...
From The Counselor, The Awakening and the upcoming Steve Jobs film, to name a few, Pemberton has delivered another eclectic score – this time Guy Ritchie’s latest movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E., in theatres Friday, August 14.
Fans of the TV show are familiar with the theme music from composer Jerry Goldsmith, with additional music for the various seasons provided by Morton Stevens, Walter Scharf, Lalo Schifrin, Gerald Fried, Robert Drasnin and Nelson Riddle.
Now comes the film version and a 5-star, international score that exudes the 1960’s as if it was pulled from a time vault. You’re right into the film from the first musical note and drum beat.
Recently the...
- 8/10/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
CBS Records has announced a soundtrack release for the new version of the CBS hit show Hawaii Five-0. The album includes the newly arranged Morton Stevens main title theme, as well as a score suite by composers Brian Tyler and Keith Power. Other artists featured on the release include Jimmy Cliff, Goo Goo Dolls, Switchfoot, Corinne Bailey Rae, Train, Bob Dylan, Ziggy Marley and John Cruz. The soundtrack will be released on October 4, 2011 and is now available to pre-order on Amazon. Hawaii Five-0 starring Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park and Masi Oka has just entered its second season earlier this week and is airing every Monday night on CBS. To find out more about the series, visit the official show website.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Hawaii Five-0 Main Title Theme
2. World Upside Down (Jimmy Cliff)
3. The Best of Me (Goo Goo Dolls)
4. Out...
Here’s the album track list:
1. Hawaii Five-0 Main Title Theme
2. World Upside Down (Jimmy Cliff)
3. The Best of Me (Goo Goo Dolls)
4. Out...
- 9/21/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack release for the 1981 adventure mini-series Masada. The album includes the complete original score from all four parts of the series composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens. Goldsmith scored the first two parts and Stevens wrote the music for Parts 3 & 4. The album comes in a 2-cd set and is limited to 5000 copies. To listen to audio clips from the soundtrack and order the CD, visit Intrada’s online store. Masada directed by Boris Sagal (The Omega Man) and starring Peter O’Toole and Peter Strauss tells the story of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in Ad 73. The mini-series was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards and 3 Golden Globes and Jerry Goldsmith has won an Emmy Award for his score for the second part.
The label has also released Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1959 black-and-white...
The label has also released Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1959 black-and-white...
- 5/31/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
Quite simply one of the box sets of the year hands down. Thriller only ran for two seasons 1960-1962, but it was, quite possibly, the best horror anthology in TV history, maybe the best horror show period. Twilight Zone? Sorry guys, dark fantasy, often quite light hearted and cursed with far more clunkers. Night Gallery? Close, but hasn't aged as well. I'll let others argue the merits of Tales from the Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, etc. The bottom line is Thriller offered elegant, well written, well acted teleplays that made unease look easy.
I said elegant. That is a quality lost on a generation of TV watchers especially in the horror genre. Take an episode with the unlikely title of Pigeons from Hell. Adapted from a short story by the great Robert E. Howard Pigeons tells the tale of two men spending the night in a haunted plantation with...
I said elegant. That is a quality lost on a generation of TV watchers especially in the horror genre. Take an episode with the unlikely title of Pigeons from Hell. Adapted from a short story by the great Robert E. Howard Pigeons tells the tale of two men spending the night in a haunted plantation with...
- 10/19/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cue up the classic Morton Stevens theme music, and the clippy cutting of scenic Hawaii, a little surfer action, hula dancer, and the famed blue-light police car racing into the dusk with a couple of show-star zooms on Alex O'Loughlin (McGarrett) and Scott Caan (Dan-o) and the classic TV show is back in a fun, frothy format that unfortunately also reminds us about the dumbing-down of America. The original Hawaii Five-o, which ran from 1968 to 1980, set a high standard for television cop shows. Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett, the tack-sharp, blue-steel-eyed white guy heading a state task-force to bring justice to the lawless, seamy underside of tourist paradise. Five-o had action, but it was about smarts first. The show threw master villains McGarrett's way whom he outsmarted, not out-gunned. The show was more a game of chess than...
- 9/21/2010
- by Brian Ross
- Huffington Post
The people behind "Hawaii Five-0" have updated a lot of the elements of the classic cop show for the 21st century -- but they wouldn't dare try to overhaul the show's indelible theme song.
As the show revealed at Comic-Con last week, "Five-0" composer Brian Tyler and 35 musicians -- including several who played on the original theme -- got together in June to record a new version of Morton Stevens' theme music. It's a nearly note-for-note cover of the original
That's the version that will be used when the series premieres on CBS in September -- and not the guitar-based track that was attached to early versions of the pilot.
"It had been suggested at one point that we get a really popular rock star to come in and redo the theme with electric guitar. We thought, Ok, let's explore it and see how it goes," executive producer Alex Kurtzman says.
As the show revealed at Comic-Con last week, "Five-0" composer Brian Tyler and 35 musicians -- including several who played on the original theme -- got together in June to record a new version of Morton Stevens' theme music. It's a nearly note-for-note cover of the original
That's the version that will be used when the series premieres on CBS in September -- and not the guitar-based track that was attached to early versions of the pilot.
"It had been suggested at one point that we get a really popular rock star to come in and redo the theme with electric guitar. We thought, Ok, let's explore it and see how it goes," executive producer Alex Kurtzman says.
- 7/28/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Hard to match: Jack Lord as McGarrett in the original "5-0"
CBS has released the opening credits sequence for the remake series of Hawaii 5-0. It's underwhelming when compared to the original, but at least there is an opening credits sequence in an era where they are being eliminated as superfluous. The show also retains Morton Stevens' classic theme song, albeit it in a jazzed- up, "improved" version. Click here to view both the new and original openings.
- 5/22/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We'll find out in the fall whether the new "Hawaii Five-0" scores with viewers, but the show has already done one smart thing: It kept the theme music.
The original "Five-0" had one of the most recognizable TV themes of all time. There was almost no way the show could not pay homage to tune, which was written by Morton Stevens -- at least not without turning off a boatload of viewers.
CBS and the show's producers knew that, and so a version of the song plays over the opening credits. It's more guitar-driven than the original (and a little bit shorter), but the series wisely didn't mess around with the music too much. In another nice touch, the credits also re-create a few of the shots from the old show -- including the push-in to McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) standing on the balcony of a high-rise building and the tracking shot of a police siren.
The original "Five-0" had one of the most recognizable TV themes of all time. There was almost no way the show could not pay homage to tune, which was written by Morton Stevens -- at least not without turning off a boatload of viewers.
CBS and the show's producers knew that, and so a version of the song plays over the opening credits. It's more guitar-driven than the original (and a little bit shorter), but the series wisely didn't mess around with the music too much. In another nice touch, the credits also re-create a few of the shots from the old show -- including the push-in to McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) standing on the balcony of a high-rise building and the tracking shot of a police siren.
- 5/21/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
As reported on this blog in January, CBS is bringing back Hawaii Five-o - no, not reruns of the classic 1970s cop series; an update/remake/reimagining/whatever you want to call it, which should debut during the 2010/2011 tv season. Below is a first look at just the opening credits, in which you’ll hear the updated theme song. And all I can say is, Wtf? It sounds terrible, Imho! Is this the best they could come up with? I wasn’t expecting a replica of the original Morton Stevens classic theme song, but surely, they could have done better than this. Watch and listen below, and then do the same with the original underneath.
Here’s the original:...
Here’s the original:...
- 5/20/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Karloff's classic horror television series "Thriller" is finally making its way to DVD courtesy of Image Entertainment and we couldn't be happier. All 67 episodes will be transferred to a 14 DVD box set due out August 3rd...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
- 5/15/2010
- by admin
- Horrorbid
Now this is the way we love to end a Friday. Fans of Boris Karloff and classic horror television shows have long sought after the series "Thriller". It was available on VHS way back when and of course almost every bootlegger has peddled a copy online at one point or another, but now thanks to Image Entertainment the wait and the search are officially over!
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
- 5/15/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We were scoring a film on Newman Scoring Stage last Friday. At take 282 Rick Marvin, our composer, wondered how many takes we would accumulate by the time we finished our fifth session on the day this article posts. Vinny “Smart Water” Cirilli, our Protools Recordist, and software virtuoso of CueChronicle said, “I wonder how many takes "The Simpsons" are up to?” We found out that “The Simpsons”, which had scored mostly at Fox, was at the take thirty thousand mark.
Funny thing is, up until a couple of months ago I had no idea most T.V. shows were scored in the box - that’s how long it’s been since I worked in TV. In my day everything was scored with an orchestra of about thirty players. I started in T.V. and we scored five shows a week, every week. I’m aware of what a composer...
Funny thing is, up until a couple of months ago I had no idea most T.V. shows were scored in the box - that’s how long it’s been since I worked in TV. In my day everything was scored with an orchestra of about thirty players. I started in T.V. and we scored five shows a week, every week. I’m aware of what a composer...
- 8/4/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Scott Stambler)
- SCOREcastOnline.com
Few composers have such a long past in network television music as Dick DeBenedictis. A native of New Milford, New Jersey, DeBenedictis never saw himself as a film composer right up until his first commission! He was thrown into the deep end so to speak... Over four decades he provided music for classic episodes of Columbo, Matlock, Father Dowling, Diagnosis Murder and tons of other series' which may not be as well known today. This was all written in addition to a rich background in writing for musical theatre, another major forte of the composer. In my interview with Dick DeBenedictis, we revisit all these shows with a special focus on select episodes of Columbo where Dick had to write music for murderous musicians!
How did your fascination with music begin?
I began piano lessons at the age of ten or eleven, then I attended Ithaca College. I got a...
How did your fascination with music begin?
I began piano lessons at the age of ten or eleven, then I attended Ithaca College. I got a...
- 5/21/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
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