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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: PYLdude on September 04, 2014, 10:06:10 PM
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If I remember correctly the theme to the 1987 Blockbusters series was a piece of stock music. How many game shows over the years employed such compositions as themes? Legitimate curiosity.
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The $10,000 Pyramid quickly comes to mind. I believe Debt, too.
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The original Jackpot! with Geoff Edwards: "Jet Set", by Mike Vickers (one of the members of the 60's group Manfred Mann)
I believe Debt, too.
Debt indeed used stock music from Alan Ett.
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"Winning Streak": "Saturday About Town" by Barry Stoller.
If pilots count, then this could be quite an exhaustive list.
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Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture?
JakeT
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Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture?
If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?
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Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture?
If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?
True enough...but also keep in mind that they were not composed/released with the thought that they'd one day become a game show theme..
JakeT
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Weren't game show themes almost entirely stock music until both Bob Cobert and Score Productions came into the picture?
If we're talking about things such as Plink, Plank, Plunk and A "Swingin' Safari", I don't think those are "stock" pieces, are they?
True enough...but also keep in mind that they were not composed/released with the thought that they'd one day become a game show theme..
JakeT
Yes, but that doesn't qualify them as stock necessarily.
I'm looking for stuff that was written specifically as production music but not intended for a specifc use (kind of along the same lines as the NFL Films library).
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I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production. Would appreciate any info on that.
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Bob Barker's Truth Or Consequences used "Stop Gap", and 1952-57 episodes of What's My Line? had "Melody in Moccasins", both of which were written by Wilfred Burns.
This (http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/tvSeriesList.shtml) is a good resource when looking up the title and composer information of early TV themes.
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I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production. Would appreciate any info on that.
I have that album. (He only did "Marvelous" to my knowledge.) Which track?
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Atinale Al Precio (the Mexican Version of TPiR) uses many stock music as prize cues usually shown in the Closing Credits of each episode so here's a list of these cues including "Go For The Gold" by Family Guy Composer Walter Murphy which used as a Car Cue.
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That's a short list.
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I heard bits and pieces of the theme from Every Second Counts on a comedy album by Billy Crystal, which made me wonder if that was stock/production.
I remember reading here that it was indeed a stock piece, and I want to say Hollywood Connection's theme was as well.
As far as other shows, I'm seriously drawing a blank, but it seems that a few of Bob Stewart's NYC shows used stock music until about the mid-70s. Then he simply recycled the Shoot for the Stars theme for about another 15 years*. ;-)
Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music? I'm thinking Quicksilver and Free 4 All...I know the former used a repurposed Shop Til You Drop cue, but not sure if that was stock.
*ObTongueInCheek: Which did Bob recycle more, the SFTS theme or what would become Go's format?
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Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music?
Their music was in-house. I forgot which half of the pair it was, but one of the two names in the Stone-Stanley partnership was a composer.
-Jason
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Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music?
Their music was in-house. I forgot which half of the pair it was, but one of the two names in the Stone-Stanley partnership was a composer.
-Jason
I believe David Stanley. I remember seeing his name in connection with the Legends of the Hidden Temple music back a couple of years ago.
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Did any of Stone Stanley's mid-90s shows use stock music?
Their music was in-house. I forgot which half of the pair it was, but one of the two names in the Stone-Stanley partnership was a composer.
-Jason
I believe David Stanley. I remember seeing his name in connection with the Legends of the Hidden Temple music back a couple of years ago.
As do I. Specifically regarding the idiot who disregarded his copyrights by posting the TVPMM Vault cuts Stanley submitted by putting them on YouTube and then, after Stanley notified him of the violation, advertised that he was moving them to a Yahoo group or something. That was the last I heard of any of it, so.I'm curious to see how that got resolved.
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I've been wondering about the BTB '76 theme....I know it's been recycled at least twice, but I've never been sure whether it was stock or commissioned.
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I'll have to dig the Crystal CD out to check. If memory hasn't totally faded, he was doing a bit where he slipped into some sort of a Hollywood character, and used the music piece to get in and out of the "star's" appearance and bit. I knew the original Pyramid was a bit of stock music when I was having a dinner at a nice restaurant with Muzak in the background, and suddenly the tune appeared. My date began to question by suitability for a long-term relationship when I told her that was the Pyramid theme. I called Musak's office in Kalamazoo the next day and tried to find out what it was. Oh, those days.....
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Those across the pond might recognize track 42 here (https://beta.apmmusic.com/#albums/JM-0038/KPM_JM_0038_04201) and a piece used when Julie Chen visited The Late Late Show a while back (starts at 0:19 below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZyGeCbXKI
/Would love to know which library CBS uses nowadays, and not just for that piece...
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I have heard the music to Guess What? somewhere before the video was posted here. It sounds like very generic stock music.
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Password's CBS run first used "Holiday Jaunt" which was from a production library.
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I've been wondering about the BTB '76 theme....I know it's been recycled at least twice, but I've never been sure whether it was stock or commissioned.
I was always under the impression it, like so many others, was a Hidey piece.
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I've been wondering about the BTB '76 theme....I know it's been recycled at least twice, but I've never been sure whether it was stock or commissioned.
I was always under the impression it, like so many others, was a Hidey piece.
Nope...the BTB'76 theme was a Stu Levin composition titled "Hustle The Bank"...
JakeT
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Those across the pond might recognize track 42 here (https://beta.apmmusic.com/#albums/JM-0038/KPM_JM_0038_04201)
Yeah, there's fun all over that collection.
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Pretty sure Instant Recall's theme song was stock; I also heard it in a Cartoon Network short circa 1998. (It can be heard at 0:24 in the vid below.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Aic7VXyFc
Instant Recall also recycled one of Debt's cues, which I thought was a nice touch.