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The one you've been waiting for., August 20, 2001
This review is from: The Fugitive - Original Television Series Soundtrack Music by Peter Rugolo (Audio CD)
For those of us who were around in the '60s, the television program THE FUGITIVE still stands as perhaps the best drama series ever offered on the medium. The show had many strengths -- the writing, acting, direction -- all top-notch. And then there was the incredible music score composed by Pete Rugolo. Now, it's all here on this long-overdue soundtrack album of original music for THE FUGITIVE. Its been mentioned by other reviewers that the sound on this album is stereo. It is not. It is rather well-recorded monaural, which makes sense given that we're talking about a 1960s TV show. Stereo wouldn't be employed on TV for another 20 years. Given the crispness of the audio, though, one might well be fooled into thinking that it must be stereo. Rest assured, these are the original mono master tapes presented at their best. Any fan of the series will easily remember virtually each and every "cue" used in the series. Many here are presented in elongated, unedited form, giving the listener a new perspective on some of these great arrangements. Essentially what Mr. Rugolo did was to compose and arrange a large series of music cues to fit any given situation that the writers could come up with. The series music editors then just had to pick and choose from among all of these cues to make it fit the mood of that particular portion of the program. The series also used other stock library cues, some of which are available on both the TWILIGHT ZONE and OUTER LIMITS soundtrack albums. I can't praise this one enough. Now if someone out there would just bring the series back to TV!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The fabulous ORIGINAL music from "The Fugitive", September 13, 2007
This review is from: The Fugitive - Original Television Series Soundtrack Music by Peter Rugolo (Audio CD)
There are already a number of good reviews of this CD here, and it seems to be out of print as I write this, but I still wish to add a few comments.
This disc includes, as has been pointed out by other writers, the original theme music from the 1960s TV series "The Fugitive". In addition, these recordings are not dubbed from film soundtracks, or in any other way removed from the source material, but are evidently transferred from original (possibly first-generation) master tapes.
The source used for these recordings is significant because even a transfer from a film soundtrack (as opposed to a master tape) adds a haze of background noise and removes some of the frequency range of the music.
The music on this CD leaps out of the speakers, and it is possible to hear detail that you may never have noticed no matter how hard you listened to the music when you watched the series on TV. Although the broadcast standards for the original 60s airing of the show were pretty good, your TV set probably had a "hum" in the sound due to video interference, and most television speakers weren't hi-fi quality. Thanks to this CD, your home stereo can deliver this music just the way you remember it, only better!
Just a few more brief notes. The music on this disc is all in mono, just as it was recorded--stereo television broadcasts were about a quarter of a century away when "The Fugitive" debuted. But don't mistake mono sound for inferior sound. This CD sounds fantastic! I'm afraid that most of the "episode cues" (which admittedly comprise most of this release) are not very interesting listening, and I routinely program around them when playing the disc. But I spent the money for the theme music, all of which (main and end titles, plus a "bumper" segment) is here, and I gladly paid the price of this CD for it.
UPDATE (February, 2011): This recording has been re-issued--sort of. The current release is a CD-R version (i.e., produced on a recordable disc), manufactured on demand. It appears to be otherwise identical to the earlier release of this album. If you don't have this music in your collection, here is your opportunity to acquire it.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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"Pete Rugolo & The Fugitive", January 26, 2001
This review is from: The Fugitive - Original Television Series Soundtrack Music by Peter Rugolo (Audio CD)
The man was Dr. Richard Kimble, and the series was "The Fugitive", which ran for four years, from September 1963 to August 1967 ranked highest-rated drama and won the Emmy as Outstanding Dramatic Series in its third season. David Janssen the star was nominated three times as Best Actor in a Drama, creator Roy Huggins made two suggestions - David Janssen play the title role and that Pete Rugolo write the music. Rugolo worked with such greats as - Stan
Kenton, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Harry Belafonte and Mel Torme...and
produced the legendary "Birth of the Cool" featuring Miles
Davis. Between 1947 and 1954 won the "Down Beat" poll as
top jazz arranger five times. Musically speaking "The
Fugitive" was unlike any other hit series of the '60s, Rugolo
worked solely from a reading of the pilot script and the description
of the concept, working a lot of variations with every possible kind
of suspense cues, neutral cues, some sad cues and a lot of chases,
because he'd be running all the time. Every track on this CD, is
"pure classic" television scoring, ground-breaking for its
time. Silva Screen has released the long over-due score from this
classic series, every time you heard that theme you knew it was the
music for David Janssen, absolutely the best series done and unique in
its time...and for the baby-boomers, "The fugitive" will
always be Janssen - and the music of Pete Rugolo! Total Time: 47:18
on 24 Tracks...Silva Screen SSD-1106...(2000)
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