Mystery Score Clips

Nope, it's Billy Goldenberg.


So there's no longer any guessing needed, since I said it was the last known score he did: this is from a 2011 short film titled "Surprise Surprise, Mr. Conovy".

Soem of the famous TV series he's worked on:
"Columbo"
"Kojak"
"The Name of the Game


The famous director, Steven Speilberg. He scored "Duel" and co-scored an episode of "The Name of the Game" Steven directed.

I'm feeling generous, so I'm gonna go ahead and give you the e-cookie.

Don Davis

Fantastic.

Reveal.


The deja vu comes in because not only have I already done a show by this name, but I've featured the composers before.


This is from the pilot to yet another TV series by the name of "The Quest" (A Stephen J. Cannell production). I skimmed through it since it was quite longand boring. The jist is it seems to be about the king of a (ficticious) country who is looking for someone to take this place, and he leads a group of Americans on his long quest to get from some spot to another, in order to decide who gets it.


The score is by Mike Post and the late Pete Carpenter. Both of whom, to this day, have not had a single CD of original score released.

Alexander Courage

Reveal.


This is from the short-lived series "Spencer's Pilots". The particular episode of "The Search", where Spencer's plane crashes and he and three passengers must survive with little water and the heat (yeah, that's my summary on IMDb; I submitted that along with some of the credits).


The composer on the episode is Morton Stevens. This is the only one, thus far, that we know he scored.


There were eleven episodes total (that final has no credited composer). Aside from his score, Jerrold Immel is credited for the pilot on IMDb. An excellent little site called Film Score Rundowns shows the composers to be (he goes into studio archives sometimes, and collections, and looks at paper work):

Jerrold Immel
Bruce Broughton (also credited as a music supervisor on the episodes)
William Broughton (yes, his brother, who's done a tiny bit of scoring)
Morton Stevens
Harry Geller
Dick DeBenedictis


An impressive line-up for a short-lived series, and with the excellent Stevens' score, and that Immel often did excellent episodic work, there's probably a wealth of wonderful unheard TV scoring there. Something about certain settings brings out good scores from composers: space, flying, landscapes, under water, etc.

No idea on this one Justin.

Mystery Score Clip 83


For this interesting suite we get tribal percussion and other percussion instruments and rhythms, with one solo ethnic flute woodwind -- no strings, no brass, nothing else.


I'd like to tell you who the composer is, but nobody was credited! Whether tracked or originjal, it's obvious it's the same person as ideas and the woodwind theme run throughout the score.


This is from a tense and interesting documentary from a few decades ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzek0QJ-orw

Mystery Score Clip 84


Oh my goodness, there's so much to say about this.

First off, if you like 1980's orchestral scores (with a touch of the 1970's), you'll probably enjoy this. Like some scores of that era, it has some cues kind of out of joint with the rest of the score, though I've only included one or two of them here.


The score is unreleased, the composer is no longer with us, and this represents probably about 40% of the score.


The film? OMG, it's awful. I don't mean a it's so bad it's good film, this is bad. Thankfully now forgotten and best left to people like The Nostalgia Critic, this film has bad acting (especially from it's lead character), bad writing, and cheese ahoy! I mean cheesy sound effects were even added to the film. The special effects were terrible; just a few years later Spaceballs had SUPERIOR effects.

And before any of you even think of that line, "It was a paycheck", you are wrong. This poor composer is not only credited as one of the two writers, but he was also a producer. He had more than a hand in this terrible film.


It makes "Elves" seem like quality work. IF you read my review of that film over a year ago, you know what I'm talking about.


Enjoy the music, and thank your dear fluffy lord you don't have to see the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDepBObBdwQ




Thor would probably like it, 'cause it blows.

I forgot composer clues.

The compsoer was never famous, though he did a score that got some acclaim with a portion of the film score community for a score he did (which was released by a popular label years ago). He died relatively young.

Reveal.


This is from a terrible science fiction movie called "Prisoners of the Lost Universe", from 1983.


The composer is Harry Robertson.

The composer is related to a famous composer.

Yes. Should I call it?

That's it! You got it.

Good score, yes?