Mike Post and Pete Carpenter are renowned TV composers - A-Team, Hill Street Blues, Magnum, LA Law, Rockford Files - the list goes on. All wonderful and classic themes of television. I would agree with Giacchino as a current "hot" TV composer, WG Snuffy Walden has produced some winners as well (West Wing particulary)

mt.butcher, October 23, 2006; 2:51 PM

not right now, but no doubt Christopher Franke. He wrote the music for over 100 episodes of Babylon 5, the best music I have ever listened to. there is no better music in my collection of scores or tv music.
Great action themes, beautiful melodies, the best main titles for episodes ever. Babylon 5 rules the universe!

karol, October 23, 2006; 4:12 PM

Lol, such enthusiasm, I'll have to check out his work on the show. I've never heard any of it.

drakemarone, October 23, 2006; 4:20 PM

None of the recent guys come close to achieving what composers for television of the past created.

None that I have heard anyway.

The CBS cue library from the early 60's as far as I'm concerned is the pinnacle of quality music for the small screen. Bernard Hermann, Goldsmith, Fred Steiner and all those guys as well as many others did something truly innovative back then thats even better now.

An old vinyl recording dating from the early 50's of music from the Kraft Television Theatre with music by Vladimir Selinsky is a fine example of such craftsmanship.

Should be released on CD. Would be a good FSM release. And if they do ever release it how about a free copy for me for suggesting it?


victoravalentine, October 23, 2006; 4:34 PM

You might want to e-mail Lukas Kendall of FSM regarding this LP you mentioned 'killer knives', he might be trully interested.

In all seriousness, in case you know where they can be tracked, Lukas is looking for an excellent, if not mint copy of a Colpix "Damn The Defiant!" (1962) LP & "Behold A Pale Horse" (1964) LP in stereo to have them remastered to compact disc format since the masters are non-existent. These LP's will be great if they are finally released on CD even if the source is a remastered vinyl source.

I also agree with your comment on the greatness and innovation of television scoring from long gone eras.

;- )

serifiot, October 23, 2006; 7:22 PM

By far: Richard Gibbs and Bear Mc Creary for Sci Fi's updated and dazzling Battlestar Galactica series. (Starts up again in January and is widely available on DVD now). The soundtracks to the miniseries and the first two seasons are out on CD from La La Land records..a definate MUST HAVE for any true lover of soundtracks.

For some reason these are getting widely overlooked by collectors so here's my recommendation- if you like Hans Zimmer ( thinking similar to his Black Hawk Down "Leave no man Behind") or Cliff Martinez (Traffic or Solaris) you will love Bear's work on Season Two. Track 10- " Something Dark is coming" or Track 17 "Prelude to War" are just breathtaking achievements. As to Zimmer's "Leave no man behind"- there are startling similarities on Bear's work for BSG on track 13 "Roslin and Adama". (VERY SIMILAR- but in a good way!)

Forget the Stu Phillips theme and the cheesy dialogue- this Battlestar is absolutely the best DRAMA on television, and the weekly dose of Bear and Richard's work makes it the best score on TV. Try it - you might like it- people I work with at my company who are NOT sci fi fans were hooked in a single episode!

Kim
emt8134@aol.com

emt8134, October 23, 2006; 9:36 PM

Richard Harvey, Richard Harvey and Richard Harvey. Excellent composer.

satanbug69, October 23, 2006; 10:06 PM

Absolutely Shuki Levy and Haim Saban for their great cartoons scores (He-Man, Rainbow Bride, Inspector Gadget and many more)....

tyuan74, October 25, 2006; 7:17 PM