15 minutes of Star Trek TAS music
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Thanks. I had seen that before but lost track of where it was. 
Is that the entire soundtrack? I know some of TAS' music was reused for the 1977 Batman series that had Adam West and Burt Ward dong the voices.
It's too bad with all the Star Trek soundtracks that have been released over the last few years that there isn't one for TAS. It would pobably onyl be 30-45 minutes long anyway.
It's too bad with all the Star Trek soundtracks that have been released over the last few years that there isn't one for TAS. It would pobably onyl be 30-45 minutes long anyway.
These were just DVD rips. According to Jeff Bond, composer Ray Ellis said the actual music was destroyed.
http://trekcore.com/blog/2012/12/star-trek-os-complete-soundtrack-jeff-bond-producer-interview/
The other thing that people would probably like to see – and I don’t know if it’s possible or practical – is music from The Animated Series. That was done only a few years after the Original Series by a great composer named Ray Ellis who did almost all of the Filmation cartoon music. He actually did the arrangement of the Spiderman song from the original 60s series and if you listen to that song, you can get a very strong idea of what his style was. He did these terrific big-band brassy arrangements - he did a lot of music for that Spiderman show that people remember and he did music for Star Trek that was in a similar style, but not as pop-oriented. The Animated Series music was very memorable, although they didn’t do a lot of music for the show. My guess is there’s probably thirty or forty minutes of music at the very most because they basically created more of a library for that show and tracked it through the episodes. The problem is that Filmation went through a number of ownerships and I’m not sure if CBS have access to the original music elements. According to Ray all of that stuff was destroyed long ago. There can always be dubs and copies floating around, but as far as I know there’s nothing in great quality that you could put together for another release. That’s something that people might like to see, but it’s not certain if it could be done.
http://trekcore.com/blog/2012/12/star-trek-os-complete-soundtrack-jeff-bond-producer-interview/
The other thing that people would probably like to see – and I don’t know if it’s possible or practical – is music from The Animated Series. That was done only a few years after the Original Series by a great composer named Ray Ellis who did almost all of the Filmation cartoon music. He actually did the arrangement of the Spiderman song from the original 60s series and if you listen to that song, you can get a very strong idea of what his style was. He did these terrific big-band brassy arrangements - he did a lot of music for that Spiderman show that people remember and he did music for Star Trek that was in a similar style, but not as pop-oriented. The Animated Series music was very memorable, although they didn’t do a lot of music for the show. My guess is there’s probably thirty or forty minutes of music at the very most because they basically created more of a library for that show and tracked it through the episodes. The problem is that Filmation went through a number of ownerships and I’m not sure if CBS have access to the original music elements. According to Ray all of that stuff was destroyed long ago. There can always be dubs and copies floating around, but as far as I know there’s nothing in great quality that you could put together for another release. That’s something that people might like to see, but it’s not certain if it could be done.
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No insult intended about Ellis, but I wonder if he confused the fate of TAS' tracks with what he once said of the Spider-Man tracks? It seems odd that his music met the same fate at two different studios, especially since Filmation music (or main title cues, at least) ended up on the Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection CD, leading one to believe the cues survived.
^Thank you, Trek God, for recognizing the difference between Spiderman and Spider-Man. So few do.
Phil Spiderman?
Exactly.
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