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Get Smart starring Don Adams

Posted by Bruce on May 11, 2010 in Comedy, Soundtrack with No Comments

…Would you believe, a soundtrack/comedy LP of “Get Smart” season 1 highlights?

LP Title: Get Smart

Starring Don Adams

Label: Raven Records (under License from EMI Records)

Catalogue Number RVLP 1005

Category: Comedy/Soundtrack

“Get Smart” Season 1 cast: Barbara Feldon, Ed Platt, Vince Howard, James Millhollin, Roger Price, Susanne Cramer, Robert Cornthwaite, Frank De Vol, Donald Curtis, Bill Zuckert, Willis Bouchey, Robert Simon and Joey Forman

Special Material for Don Adams written by Buck Henry

Get Smart Segments Written by Stan Burns & Mike Marmer, Gerald Gardner & Dee Caruso, Buck Henry

Produced by Burt Nodella for Talent Associates, Ltd.

Special Effects and Engineer: Art Becker

Cover Notes: Bill Dana

Prepared for re-issue by Glenn A. Baker

Side 1

Washington 4 – Indians 3
School Days
Satan Place
Cone of Silence
Too Many Chiefs – Countersign
The Latest Devices
All In The Mind

Side 2

The Incredible Harry Hoo
I’m Only Human
Kisses for KAOS
Plane Sequence
Too Many Chiefs – Hotel Sequence
Weekend Vampire
Sorry ‘Bout That

A complete volume of highlights from the first season of the smash hit TV series “Get Smart” with a linking device of Max being caught in the crossfire of (what he thinks) some KAOS agents

But knowing Max, he’s sure to get it wrong.

This LP was released by Raven Records under license from EMI records. Below is the label for Raven Records.

The Thunderbirds theme by Barry Gray and Orchestra

Posted by Bruce on April 24, 2010 in Childrens, Soundtrack with No Comments

How many kids of my generation (i’m in my mid 40′s) would wake up early on a Saturday morning, and watched this show?

Title: the Main Theme from “Thunderbirds”

performed by The Barry Gray Orchestra

Label: PRT (1980′s pressing)

Catalogue Number 7P 216

with the voice talents of Sylvia Anderson, David Graham and Peter Dyneley

Side 1:

Thunderbirds Theme

Side 2:

Joe 90 theme

Parker - Well Done! (with Sylvia Anderson, David Graham and Peter Dyneley)

the theme to the iconic 1960′s series created by Gerry Anderson.

The EP I have here is a 1980′s pressing (I do not know if the theme was ever released originally on the Pye Label back in the 1960′s). Can someone from the U.K. confirm whether or not the single was ever released by Pye originally? thanks.

Thunderbirds was a regular feature on Saturday mornings in the late 60′s until the early 90′s on Channel 9.

Go! now seems to run Thunderbirds at 6:00 AM (but it seems to be a cut down half hour version)

Magic Monkey – Godiego

Posted by Bruce on February 23, 2010 in Childrens, Soundtrack with No Comments

for this LP, we go back to the early part of the 1980′s for a show which first aired in Japan in 1979, and has become a cult classic.

LP: Magic Monkey (soundtrack to the ABC TV series “Monkey” performed by Godiego)

Category: Childrens/Soundtrack

Label: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Records distributed by Festival

Catalogue Number: L 38256

Originally released as YX-5004-AX by Jeniko Music Group, Ltd., Japan

Produced by Johnny Nomura & Godiego by NTV Music Corp.

All songs composed by Mikie Yoshino (Side 1 Tracks 1 and 4 and Side 2 Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5) and Yukihide Takekawa (Side 1 Tracks 2, 3 and 5 and Side 2, tracks 2 and 6)

All lyrics written by Yoko Narahashi

All Songs arranged byMikie Yoshino

Recording Engineers: Keizo Suzuki and Yoshio Miyamoto

Assistant Engineers Teruya Mitzutani, Susumu Mera and Keji Takeuchi

Remix and Mastering: Keizo Suzuki

Sound Co-Ordinator: Steve Fox

Recording Studios: Freedom and Sound City

Management and Co-Ordination by Jenika Music Co., Ltd.

Special Thanks to Japan Foundation, Roland Corporation Australia, Tama Drums and Colleen Ironside

the members of Godiego:

Mikie Yoshino: Keyboards

Yukihide Takekawa: Vocals

Steve Fox: Bass and Vocals

Takami Asano: Guitar

Tommy Snyder: Drums, Vocal and Marimba

Female Vocals:Kayoko Ishu, Midori Umegaki, Sandi A Hohn

Sax Solos: Jake H. Concepcion

All songs Published by Jenika Music Co., Ltd. and MCA Music Australia P/L (Universal Music Publishing Australia, P/L if they still have the music rights today)

Side 1:

The Birth of the Odyssey/Monkey Magic
Ghandara
Asiatic Fever
We’re Heading Out West to India
Thank You, Baby

Side 2

Steppin’ Into Your World
Havoc in Heaven
Dragons and Demons
A Fool
Flying
Celebration

The original soundtrack to the Cult Classic “Monkey”.

This LP is probably also notable as being the first LP to be released by the (by 1984 corporatized) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (prior to this, the ABC was a broadcasting commission)

this was not the only release for Godiego in Australia. Concurrent to this release, the ABC also released the opening title music and the series 1 closing theme “Ghandara” as a 45 RPM single.

the label for this release appears below:

(this post took a little longer than I anticipated)

the Super Gran theme by Billy Connolly

Posted by Bruce on January 31, 2010 in Childrens, Soundtrack with No Comments

And now, the final post for this month brings us a TV show theme from the mid 1980′s

Title: Super Gran theme – Billy Connolly

Label: Festival/Stiff Records

Catalogue Number: K 9647 (Festival) and BUY 218 (Stiff)

Category: TV Theme

Side 1: Super Gran Theme

Side 1 Credits: Produced by Phil Coulter, Remixed by Bob Andrews

Side 2: Yootha’s Song

Side 2 Credits: Produced by Billy Connolly, Recorded by Stephen Street at The Fallout Shelter

Now this one is a bit of a rarity – the Big Yin singing the theme to a kid’s show

This was one of the few shows that ITV affiliate Tyne Tees had produced that had been sold internationally (in Australia, it was part of the Nine Network’s afternoon childrens program “C’mon Kids” (it used to air on Monday’s show)

the following link (from Wikipedia) will explain the story behind the series

According to the back cover Festival released this as a ‘limited edition’ release.

Here is the back cover art: