Thanks to Film Score Media on another board was able to identify two pieces of music with only two left to find
Also found this one. “Lurker” by Frank Ricotti. Interestingly this one is from Bruton and not KPM:
https://mega.nz/file/Yk4jxaoL#LMPZkCnXVtorg6F5kEjnKMwjTvcNHcc3n3m47sMy8zI
Found this one so far. “Hock Heideckburg March” from KPMLP-1272:
https://mega.nz/file/BtJAGKqS#Lu74hqC-1CJxJIIynQGpXckAFZC99NJ58IPHGn64ExY
Wow! Thanks for finding these. I’ll give them a listen later. I’ve also hunted for the source tracks from H3 and have found 3 of them that you can add to your list if not already aware:
“You’ve Got What it Takes” and “Time Goes By” from an album by singer Madeline Bell called The Voice of Soul.
“Cha Cha del Sol” from KPM 1000: Pleasure Spectacle.
All 3 are on Spotify.
Edit: both of the tracks you posted are also on Spotify.
I didn’t have You’ve Got What It Takes. Thank You for that
It’s only barely heard for a few seconds on the TVs in the TV store after Challis hangs up the phone, before it switches to the SSN commercial. To be honest, the whole album is good. I listen to it often.
I’m sure you also have Staggione Vivaldiana. This one is fairly widely known due to it also having been used in The Fog. Not on Spotify but can be found on YouTube and elsewhere. Do you have any others not covered in this thread already? I can’t think of any pieces left.
This is a great thread, very cool to find these songs! Not to be off topic, but one song I’ve always wondered about is in H4 while Rachel, Jamie, and Lindsey are driving around town. It’s playing on the radio. The final line before the next scene sounds like “my child of God”, or something similar. I suspect it may have been made specifically for the film, but just curious if anyone has ever found it.
I agree! This is a very exciting thread, and yet it’s just the 3 of us here! A while back, I posted a similar thread when I finally discovered the 3 songs I mentioned above and I believe you commented on it about the H4 track. I haven’t found it, but it hasn’t left me since reading your comment (or whomever’s it was). I’m pretty sure Alan Howarth was in a few bands over the course of his career. Maybe it was one of their tracks? Someone should ask him if he’s at H45. I’m not sure yet if I’m going.
I think they say “My China gal/girl”.
For that matter, there is some diegetic music in the first half of H5 I wouldn’t mind locating as well. Although I suspect all of these (H4 and H5) are incidental tracks by Alan Howarth & Company that will never see the light of day - similar to the way he composed a little rock riff for the first act of H6 (although strangely this did wind up on the 2012 album.)
Getting back to H3 - another one not mentioned here is the song ocurring when then Kupfers arrive in Santa Mira, which is “Do the Boogaloo” by Quango and Sparky.
I guess that means the only 2 I haven’t discovered are these:
-The cartoon piece that plays on the TV while Challis is at the bar (possibly Alan Howarth noodling on a synth).
-The radio track that plays in the car while Challis drives away with Android Ellie. There is a male voice which I believe sings “just pack your bags”, and then it changes to the SSN commercial.
I believe that is the Coupe DeVilles similiar to the track in Halloween. There is still the music that plays on the radio when she calls the police and she gets the drill through her head. That one still hasn’t been identified.
Ah yes. That one will be hardest to find, I suspect, because the score overtakes it after only a few seconds. It’s also very subtle and nondescript. I’ve been through almost the entire pre-1983 Bruton and KPM libraries and haven’t found it there.
I’ve been trying to figure out the music from the scene in H3 where the female doctor gets the drill to the head. The music is playing on a radio in the background. I’ve been trying to find it for years.
Hi, The music (at 73 mins) on the radio in the drill scene is:
Paul Hart - American Girls. Bruton Music LP ‘Souled Out’ (BRG19) 1981.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90QBqJvBCk&t=940s
Another Bruton track is at 39 mins, Challis returns to the motel room, Ellie just out of the shower:
Frank Ricotti - Lurker, Bruton Music LP - ‘Rhythm Stick’ (BRH8) 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJv_MwhNgEc
Re: The cartoon piece that plays on the TV while Challis is at the bar (possibly Alan Howarth noodling on a synth).
Actually, it’s not, and it may be the most difficult to recover of all of them. It’s a 1981 cartoon short by Ralph Bakshi called “The Cigarette and the Weed.” It has never been released, and the HIII excerpt is all that seems to remain of it.
I too am looking for the radio excerpt, “Pack your bags.” Has any further info developed on that one?
No further developments on the radio track. I still look periodically. Great info on the cartoon!
I have Lurker but I did not have American Girls. Thank you! Sorry I missed this post from so long ago.