Great movie theme tunes

[jimmyscoular]

Here's the top 25 movie themes, according to the American Film Institute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27...of_Film_Scores

As for TV themes, I was always partial to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1HnDGTAK8

[Madassa]

Zulu?

Surely - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTc

[BLUETIT]

Here's the top 25 movie themes, according to the American Film Institute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27...of_Film_Scores

As for TV themes, I was always partial to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1HnDGTAK8

I always liked this one, from Tele:----

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Kelly's Heroes

[Elwood Blues]

Here are a few of my favourites

Lawrence of Arabia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuxH...channel=mikt87


Bridge over the River Kwai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4N...ChristianBates


Ben Hur Suite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmoW...SoundtrackFred


Oh and of course

The Dambusters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3tF...nel=lawscottie

[Moodybluebird]

Here's the top 25 movie themes, according to the American Film Institute:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27...of_Film_Scores

As for TV themes, I was always partial to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1HnDGTAK8

Probably my favourite TV theme tune or in this instance theme song is from The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, sung by Christine Collister. A very very beautiful song.

[The Bloop]

Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter.


Hear a couple of bars of any of those (or in some cases a couple of notes) and you instantly know which film it is. And each of those films would have been significantly less without those scores.

All the work of the same man - John Williams

Schindler's List aswell.

[Vindec]

I think I must be alone in liking the James Bond soundtracks.

[Rjk]

I think I must be alone in liking the James Bond soundtracks.

Not at all, they are distinctive, and generally set the right tone - I don't like all (many) of them as songs, but as theme tunes the tick all the boxes .

[BLUETIT]

I think I must be alone in liking the James Bond soundtracks.

For you

[tforturton]

Indiana Jones!

[Elwood Blues]

Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter.


Hear a couple of bars of any of those (or in some cases a couple of notes) and you instantly know which film it is. And each of those films would have been significantly less without those scores.

All the work of the same man - John Williams

John Williams says himself that he was greatly influenced by composers of the 30's and 40'


"I’ve been particularly fascinated with the émigrés from Europe in the 1930s — people like Max Steiner and Erich Korngold, but also Vernon Duke and Kurt Weill, who came with [directors] Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch to Hollywood. They brought this tremendous European culture. In a certain sense, my colleagues and I are the artistic grandchildren of these men. We have been the beneficiaries of a rich tradition that grew up here in the early days of sound, in the 1930s and 40s.”

Here is Korngold's Sea Hawk. There are certainly stylistic similarities here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-RP...el=violinthief


However it is probably even more marked in the theme from King's Row a film from a galaxy far far away, sorry 1942!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysC...Gerhardt-Topic

A longer version of the King's Row music for anyone interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf47...hannel=Rodders

There is of course far more to John Williams music than just a few similar extracts, but it is interesting to know where his influences come from.


Just for good measure here is some of Korngold's music from The Adventures of Robin Hood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6d...SoundtrackFred

[Cleve van Leef]

Kelly's Heroes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCo5GaDq7k

Burning Bridges by Mike Curb Congregation

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sCo5GaDq7k

Burning Bridges by Mike Curb Congregation

ahh..the memories

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

very powerful

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

ahh..the memories

If only people would label things properly 😕

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

If only people would label things properly 😕

I haven't laughed so much since grandma died

[bobh]

I think I must be alone in liking the James Bond soundtracks.

There were some naff ones, I think Carl Simon's was the best (Nobody Does It Better / The Spy Who Loved Me)

[Cleve van Leef]

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds

[jimmyscoular]

I always liked this one, from Tele:----

LOL. I remember this so well.

I think this was before Alan Hale got stranded on Gilligan's Island.

[William Treseder]

https://youtu.be/7Z-4IGSk9k0
Classic!

[William Treseder]

https://youtu.be/2KpNzalFKPo
Great series.