TAS Music Question

[CoveTom]

Yep sounds just like him, but more reserved than I've normally heard him.

Paul Frees did so many different things, but for me I associate him with two things: The ghost host at Disney's Haunted Mansion, which is still in use to this day. And KARR in the Knight Rider episode "KITT vs. KARR," which was KARR's second appearance. (The first appearance was voiced by Peter Cullen.)

In neither of those roles would I say he was anything close to "reserved."

 

[Christopher]

Paul Frees did so many different things

The running gag in Rocky & Bullwinkle where Frees's Boris Badenov showed up in disguise and Rocky said "That voice. Where have I heard that voice?" may have been a nod to Frees's prolific work, though it's not as if June Foray (Rocky) was any less prolific.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

In the Bullwinkle franchise, in addition to Badenov, he was also Inspector Fenwick. And probably a few others.

And in the Rankin-Bass Santa Claus is Coming to Town, he was, as I recall, both Meisterburger and his chief bootlicker (and probably a few others).

And he did plenty of more reserved voices for Disney. I believe he did a lot of the narration for the "standard" version of Great Moments with Mister Lincoln (Lincoln himself was of course voiced by Royal Dano, in the standard version, and I'm pretty sure that in the pre-show, Walt Disney and Blaine Gibson provided their own voices).

 

[Ssosmcin]

So then I think this means: it's not on the La La Land Records mega CD set because that was not how the cue was recorded. Something recorded and added later.

Kind of like the percussion material as Kirk takes command of the Enterprise B in star Trek: Generations, as that's not how Dennis McCarthy recorded the cue (I think it was ford A. Thaxton who said that was created editorially by an un-named person without Dennis' knowing).

It's on the CD set. I listened to it before posting. Am I misunderstanding?

 

[tharpdevenport]

I thought you were saying it wasn't:

"but...if you listen to the library recordings of that cue, every one of them leaves out the piano intro."


We crossed the streams somewhere.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I thought you were saying it wasn't:

"but...if you listen to the library recordings of that cue, every one of them leaves out the piano intro."


We crossed the streams somewhere.

I meant that every library recording of "Mace Fight" is missing the piano intro. Library cues are separate recordings of the original music to be used in other episodes or in the next season.

@ZapBrannigan said he immediately wanted to chime in the title of the cue is "Mace Fight" but the track on the album is made up of three different cues: Racial Memories, Captain Kirk and Mace Fight. So the fact that the piano intro is missing from all of the later library recordings leads me to believe the title of the cue isn't "Mace Fight" but "Captain Kirk" - the cue that directly leads into "Mace Fight."

I hope that clears it up.

 

[Christopher]

Yes, my recollection is that the motif that shows up in all of Fried's season 2 scores is his Captain Kirk theme.

 

[Therin of Andor]

In Australia, quite a number of our TV police dramas (ie. all of Crawford Productions' series) and soap operas could negotiate to "borrow" music (even for their opening credits theme music!) from a set of prepackaged instrumental tracks from what was known as the "KPM 1000 Series" music library, a British label, active from the late 1960s through the 1980s. All of the copyright permissions were already set up and the various productions only had to conduct a speedy transaction to use them. KPM's album, "Light Imitations - Vol. III", was very popular. The distinctive Track 4, "Paper Boy" (1968) by Stephen Gray, was to become very recognisable as "Theme from 'Number 96'" (1972-77).

That track was previously heard in a US movie, "Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things" (1971), and more recently an Australian TV commercial for "Toyota" (c. 2022).

The same soap opera's uncredited play-out music (before each ad break) was from a different KPM LP, "Beat Incidental": Track 5, "The Feminine Scene" (1969) by Alan Hawkshaw and Keith Mansfield. "The Feminine Scene" was previously heard in the Australian "Homicide" (1970) episode, "Wall of Silence".

Quite bizarre when such well-known music (in Australia) pops up in random places in older British and US series.

 

[Christopher]

In Australia, quite a number of our TV police dramas (ie. all of Crawford Productions' series) and soap operas could negotiate to "borrow" music (even for their opening credits theme music!) from a set of prepackaged instrumental tracks from what was known as the "KPM 1000 Series" music library, a British label, active from the late 1960s through the 1980s.

American TV did that a lot in the '50s, drawing on stock music libraries.

I remember an episode or two of the Australian-made Farscape using a certain bit of music that I've heard in various other productions from other countries over the years. Maybe it was from that library.

 

[Ssosmcin]

In Australia, quite a number of our TV police dramas (ie. all of Crawford Productions' series) and soap operas could negotiate to "borrow" music (even for their opening credits theme music!) from a set of prepackaged instrumental tracks from what was known as the "KPM 1000 Series" music library, a British label, active from the late 1960s through the 1980s.

I have a great deal of that music on file and it's extremely familiar. It was one of the largest music libraries, with music used in anything from Marvel Super-Heroes Cartoons to sports show, to independent stations movie presentations to episodes of Dallas and, again, The Fugitive. The daytime court series The People's Court took it's theme music from Alan Tew's "The Big One." It's a treasure trove of music from childhood. Even Harry Lubin's music from One Step Beyond and The Outer Limits wound up there.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I associate Frees' voice with one of those Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas specials. Good times.

Fluid Man! One of my childhood heroes!


Fluid Man by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Maurice]

Fluid Man! He'll take the piss out of crime.