Logan’s Run: The Series
Film Score Monthly releases a CD of music from the TV series Logan’s Run, with music by Laurence Rosenthal, Jeff Alexander, Jerrold Immel and Bruce Broughton.
Film Score Monthly releases a CD of music from the TV series Logan’s Run, with music by Laurence Rosenthal, Jeff Alexander, Jerrold Immel and Bruce Broughton.
The Levinhurst album Perfect Life is released, featuring the single “Hope”.
The video game soundtrack album Katamari Fortissimo Damacy is released in Japan, featuring many of the jazz and swing inspired songs from the Playstation 2 game Katamari Damacy.
La-La Land Records releases a 50th anniversary CD of Akira Ifukube’s soundtrack from the original 1954 Japanese version of Godzilla.
The Finn Brothers album Everyone Is Here is released, featuring the singles “Won’t Give In”, “Nothing Wrong With You” and “Part Of Me, Part Of You”.
The Alan Parsons album A Valid Path is released, featuring guest appearances by Shpongle, Roger Waters, The Crystal Method and John Cleese (!).
The soundtrack CD Space: 1999 Year One is released – five years to the day after the date the moon is blasted out of orbit, according to the series’ opening credits.
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released.
The soundtrack of the 1967 movie OK Connery is released, with music by Ennio Morricone. The movie is better known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007.
The R.E.M. album Around the Sun is released, featuring the single “Leaving New York”.
The William Shatner CD Has Been is released, featuring guest appearances by Brad Paisley, Henry Rollins and Ben Folds.
The Duran Duran CD Astronaut is released.
La-La Land Records releases the first soundtrack CD in the Farscape Classics series. The CD contains Guy Gross’ music from the episodes Revenging Angel and Eat Me.
Paul Hester, former drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House, is found dead at the age of 46 in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Though police say the death is not “suspicious,” they rule it a suicide. Hester was a mainstay of the Melbourne music scene in the 80s when he auditioned to fill the vacant drum seat in Australian/New Zealand supergroup Split Enz. He joined the group for its 1984 tour, and only recorded one album, 1985’s See Ya Round, in the studio with Split Enz before the band broke up. He joined Neil Finn in a quest to launch a new band which, with the addition of bassist Nick Seymour, was eventually christened Crowded House and scored a #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1987 with “Don’t Dream It’s Over”. He recorded and toured with Crowded House until 1994, when the rigors of touring – and impending fatherhood – convinced him to return to Melbourne with his family.
La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the first season of Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. Released by popular demand from the show’s fan base, the soundtrack displays the series’ rapidly evolving, complex musical direction, including the unusual dual main theme tunes (one used for broadcast in the UK, one used in the US).
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Prolific film and TV composer Joe Harnell, whose memorable themes introduced audiences to such shows as The Incredible Hulk, the original V miniseries and The Bionic Woman, dies of heart failure at the age of 80. Before breaking into film music, he toured America and Europe with the Glenn Miller Air Force Band, and then landed numerous gigs as a musical director for such legendary talents as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Beverly Sills, Judy Garland, and Lena Horne. He also released over a dozen albums of his own piano compositions. A three-time Emmy nominee for Best Dramatic Score, his atypical choice of a somber solo piano for the main titles of The Incredible Hulk was the beginning of a long partnership with writer/producer Kenneth Johnson, who also utilized his talents in V and Alien Nation, among other shows. He was also a film scoring lecturer and teacher in residence at the University of Southern California.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases the first-ever soundtrack from 2009 Planet Of The Apes: The Series, featuring music and the series title theme by Lalo Schifrin, and additional music by Earle Hagen.
Greg Edmonson’s soundtrack to the series Firefly is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
East Side Digital releases the Rediscovering Lost Scores soundtrack compilations, featuring Wendy Carlos’ music from The Shining, Tron, Woundings and more.
Joel Goldsmith’s soundtrack from the pilot movie of Stargate Atlantis is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Varese Sarabande releases a CD containing Elmer Bernstein‘s complete soundtrack from the movie Ghostbusters. Though an album was released with the movie in 1984, it consisted mostly of songs; this marks the first issue of Bernstein’s score, including pieces of music left out of the movie. The limited edition of 3,000 copies sells out quickly.
Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack to the first season of Lost is released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a 2-CD limited edition set of soundtrack music from the 1980s anthology series Amazing Stories, featuring music by John Williams, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Bruce Broughton, and other composers. This is the first volume of three collections of music from Amazing Stories.
La-La Land Records releases Bear McCreary’s soundtrack from the second season of Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. The second season soundtrack CD continues to show off the series’ impressive musical palette – ranging from Middle Eastern influences to hard rock – as well as new interpretations of the main theme from the 1970s iteration of Galactica.
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Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases a 2-CD limited edition set of soundtrack music from the 1980s anthology series Amazing Stories, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith, David Newman, Craig Safan, Bruce Broughton, and other composers. This is the second volume of three collections of music from Amazing Stories.
TV Eyes releases its self-titled debut album. The ’80s-styled album is the combination of the talents of Brian Reitzell and former Jellyfish members Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Jason Falkner.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada releases Elmer Bernstein’s soundtrack from the oddball 1980 Kirk Douglas sci-fi vehicle Saturn 3. This is the first release of the movie’s soundtrack, with the master tapes having spent most of the intervening years being unaccounted for.