Star Trek 1,5,6,9,10 end credits
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Was that for real or did someone make that up.
In the 70s, disco versions of sci-fi themes was a thing. Star Wars is the most well known one (I think there were several versions).
I used to collect this kind of thing. Perhaps my sentimental fave was a version of the Planet of the Apes theme. I told a friend about this; he said "That movie doesn't actually have a theme tune, does it?"; I played him the "theme" - which was a funky disco groove with people going "Ook ook, eek eek" over the top. It was hilarious - and funky! Other than that, my Geoff Love CD is my favourite.
If you want to see a more modern version of a Star Wars travesty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A
I used to collect this kind of thing. Perhaps my sentimental fave was a version of the Planet of the Apes theme. I told a friend about this; he said "That movie doesn't actually have a theme tune, does it?"; I played him the "theme" - which was a funky disco groove with people going "Ook ook, eek eek" over the top. It was hilarious - and funky! Other than that, my Geoff Love CD is my favourite.
If you want to see a more modern version of a Star Wars travesty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A
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^ I have a nostalgic fondness for that easy-listening style.
The guy signing near the end credits sounds like a theme for a James Bond movie.
Well, someone made it up. The question remains why he or she let anybody else hear it!
Oh, Ferrante and Teicher, you rapscallions!
If you check this link, it looks like I'm not alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txv_1m6oA6U
A LOT of people were also amazed there were lyrics for this and it was released as a single! The OP even says it's one of THE RAREST pieces of ST music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txv_1m6oA6U
A LOT of people were also amazed there were lyrics for this and it was released as a single! The OP even says it's one of THE RAREST pieces of ST music!
Wow. The lyrics aren't great, but the addition of guitar and drums actually works. It rocks!
Oh, yes, Walter Murphy was a big thing for a while when I was a kid. I remember "A Fifth of Beethoven" and his disco version of the Star Wars theme. I don't remember if I heard any Star Trek stuff from him.
It's possible that Walter Murphy did one as well, but the disco version of the Star Wars theme that I'm familiar with, which was a #1 single, was by Meco:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSw6CL-vLHg[/yt]
My sis used to have the very record shown in the video. Think it was a 12" single.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSw6CL-vLHg[/yt]
My sis used to have the very record shown in the video. Think it was a 12" single.
^Ah, yes, Meco. That was it. As a kid, I had trouble distinguishing Meco from the toy company Mego, which made the classic Star Trek action figures and bridge playset.
Murphy likely sparked the trend that Meco benefited from. If a disco version of classical music piece could go #1, why not do the same with the classical-style theme of a very popular film...?
Here's a good one.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v1J-kGxXds[/yt]
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v1J-kGxXds[/yt]
^Reminds me of when they used the theme as background lounge music in TOS Season 1....
I first got introduced to it via TNG, So hearing it - and so much of it! - during TMP the first time afterwards was quite magical. I love hearing extended versions of every day TV theme tunes. YouTube's great for that - some are bonkers. It's hearing something ever so different to tunes you are over familiar with.
For some reason I assumed at the time DS9 would recycle the Horner theme!
I love the theme to Generations, but it does eat at my OCD... being the only 2 hours of TNG not to use the theme. Its on 5 movies, but not their first.
That's where I first heard it, I love things like that. The Courage theme alternative on The Voyage Home too. Wish we had the double reprisal theatrical edit of the Nemesis end titles on CD though. I know it is an edit, but that's how it ended. So close yet so far. Had to rip my own copy.
Just occurred to me to wonder something. Those of you who think the McCarthy alternate TNG theme is too cheesy or bombastic: How well do you think it would work as a Superman theme? Because I realized this morning that it could've made an excellent Superman theme. (Perhaps because its main melody is similar to the motif Louis Fevre used for Clark Kent in the later seasons of Smallville. Though also because that kind of big, brassy heroic march is the standard for Superman themes.)
^It does sound like a superhero theme...
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