Boston Blackie (detective drama, starring Kent Taylor)
(NBC Primetime, 1951 - 1953;
Syndicated)
[58 episodes were produced by ZIV-TV;
...based upon a character created by Jack Boyle for short
stories appearing in The American, Cosmopolitan and
Redbook magazines in the 1900s; the character also appeared
in silent films (1918 - 1927) played by five different actors
including Lionel Barrymore; finally Blackie appeared in talking
pictures produced by Columbia Pictures (1941 - 1949), with Chester
Morris playing the lead role; Morris went on to play Blackie
during its first season on NBC radio in 1944 (when it was a
Summer replacement series for "Amos & Andy"); it was then syndicated
on radio with Richard Kollmar playing Blackie; Mutual Radio picked
up the Syndicated version during this time also; (Kollmar was the
real-life husband of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen who appeared on
the TV series "What's My Line.")]
Open Theme: "Vote and Fight" from the 1948 film
"Open Secret"
[alternate title in the MUTEL Music Service library "Vote";
aka: "FI 46";
aka: "Tympani Beat Tension";
Positive ID of this cut in the Capitol "Q" library as the Main Title theme
was made using a video aircheck courtesy TV MOOD music collector
T. Perrone, who also heard the same CUE used to score the 1948
Marathon Productions B-picture "Open Secret" released by Eagle-Lion.
The on-screen music credit for this picture was Herschel Burke
Gilbert, who was a primary composer for the MUTEL Music Service.
Library music expert and CD producer P. Mandell has also confirmed
that Gilbert authored this cue plus the one used for End Credits
below, although the End Credits cue was not used in the film
"Open Secret."
According to T. Perrone, the original cue sheet for the film
"Open Secret" lists this cue under the title "Vote and Fight". It
was also used in the MUTEL library, called simply "Vote" (FI 46.)
Another B-picture from Monogram called "The Guilty" used cues
from this cue "family" but the screen credit for "The Guilty" was
given to Rudy Schrager as the composer, even though the cues
were apparently originally composed by Gilbert for "Open Secret."
The one common denominator in both of the above is the name David
Chudnow who was the music editor on both B-pictures, and started
the MUTEL Music Service to adapt and recycle stock film library
cues for TV...who then later licensed some of MUTEL Cues to the
Capitol "Q" Library from Capitol Records Special Products.
This track also appears in the "Adventures of Superman TV series"
Soundtrack CD produced by P. Mandell under the alternate MUTEL
library title for a different edit called, "Tympani Beat Tension";
In Vincent Terrace's "Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs"
and in Craig Pattillo's "TV Theme Soundtrack Directory" TV composer
credit is erroneously given to Joseph Davis Hooven, who composed
music for the Boston Blackie radio series.]
Composer: Herschel Burke Gilbert (ASCAP)
Original Publisher: John Paul Music (ASCAP) of
Beverly Hills, CA
2001 Publisher: John Paul Music Company (ASCAP)
of Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date:
Recordings:
MUTEL Music Service track #FI 46 "Vote".
(FI designates it as a "Fight" scene cue)
78rpm 12" audition disk
in the "Capitol 'Q' Series" library --
Q-71:1 MOOD NO. 145 (Mystery) (2:10)
CD: [under the title "Tympani Beat Tension" on the CD]
"Adventures of Superman - the Original 1950s
Television Series"
Varèse Sarabande 302 066 093 2 (2000)
[This CD produced by P. Mandell and B. Kimmel
with Music Restoration by G. Newton, includes
a number of episode cues from the MUTEL library
heard in the first couple of seasons of the
"Superman" TV series. Some of the cues reproduced
from the MUTEL were also used as TV THEMEs for other
classic series including "Boston Blackie" and
"Terry and the Pirates", etc.]
Close Theme 1: "Mysterioso and Dramatic"
[aka: "MYS 76"
aka: "Mounting Dramatic";
aka: "Mounting Drama"
Positive ID of this cut as End Credits theme was made using a video
aircheck courtesy MOOD music collector T. Perrone, who in passed
along the information that this was a cue composed around the same
time as Gilbert's score for "Open Secret" from which the Main Title
above was derived.
In the MUTEL Music Library, the original title was "Mysterioso and
Dramatic" (MYS 76.) A different edit of the music produced the
alternate MUTEL title "Mounting Dramatic". P. Mandell put it on
the "Adventures of Superman CD" under the title "Mounting Drama."
In Vincent Terrace's "Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs"
and in Craig Pattillo's "TV Theme Soundtrack Directory" TV composer
credit is erroneously given to Joseph Davis Hooven, who composed
music for the Boston Blackie radio series.]
Composer: Herschel Burke Gilbert (ASCAP)
Original Publisher: John Paul Music (ASCAP) of
Beverly Hills, CA
2001 Publisher: John Paul Music Company (ASCAP)
of Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date:
Recordings:
MUTEL Music Service track #MYS 76 "Mysterioso and Dramatic".
("MYS" designates it as a "Mysterioso" cue)
78rpm 12" audition disk --
in the "Capitol 'Q' Series" library
Q-73:3 MOOD NO. 152 (Mystery) (0:56)
CD: [under the title "Mounting Drama" on the CD]
"Adventures of Superman - the Original 1950s
Television Series"
Varèse Sarabande 302 066 093 2 (2000)
[This CD produced by P. Mandell and B. Kimmel
with Music Restoration by G. Newton, includes
a number of episode cues from the MUTEL library
heard in the first couple of seasons of the
"Superman" TV series. Some of the cues reproduced
from the MUTEL were also used as TV THEMEs for other
classic series including "Boston Blackie" and
"Terry and the Pirates", etc.]
Close Theme 2: "Happy Boy"
[Theme and composer credits for this alternate close THEME
in a rather cheerful mood, identified by T. Perrone who
verified it was used on several episodes on home video.
The portion of the composition tracked into the show for
End Credits is toward the end of the piece, where the "trio"
or "C-Theme" becomes the apparent melody.]
Composer: Jack Shaindlin (BMI)
2001 Publisher: Metro Park Music (BMI)
of Chicago, IL
Copyright Date:
Renewal Date:
Recording:
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