Daverino
07-24-2001, 08:11 PM
I have been trying for many years to discover the source of the LITB background music, with little success, and was wondering if anyone here knows more about its source than I do.
As most of you know, LITB is currently airing on TV Land at 6 PM Eastern Time, two episodes each weekday night. They are presently showing episodes from the second season, in which the evocative strings-and-horn music was used most frequently. I've been taping the shows purely as a way to identify and catalog the various mood themes, of which I'm sure there are at least two dozen main ones. Sometimes the actors are speaking so loudly it's hard to hear every note clearly, and sometimes the music is cut short to match the scene, but since the themes tend to repeat every eight episodes or so, you gradually get to hear them all in full.
I do know that the LITB music supervisor was Frederick Herbert, and I've heard a few of these themes in other shows of that period, usually one hour dramas about family life. I also know that most movie and TV background music of the 40s-50s was composed for that purpose alone. In a sense, it was almost "throw away" music. This to me is amazing, as I find these themes remarkably original and very beautiful, more so than a lot of well known music.
If we could find out in who's vault this "canned" music resides, maybe we could get a CD made! Does anyone know any more about it, or who might know?
As most of you know, LITB is currently airing on TV Land at 6 PM Eastern Time, two episodes each weekday night. They are presently showing episodes from the second season, in which the evocative strings-and-horn music was used most frequently. I've been taping the shows purely as a way to identify and catalog the various mood themes, of which I'm sure there are at least two dozen main ones. Sometimes the actors are speaking so loudly it's hard to hear every note clearly, and sometimes the music is cut short to match the scene, but since the themes tend to repeat every eight episodes or so, you gradually get to hear them all in full.
I do know that the LITB music supervisor was Frederick Herbert, and I've heard a few of these themes in other shows of that period, usually one hour dramas about family life. I also know that most movie and TV background music of the 40s-50s was composed for that purpose alone. In a sense, it was almost "throw away" music. This to me is amazing, as I find these themes remarkably original and very beautiful, more so than a lot of well known music.
If we could find out in who's vault this "canned" music resides, maybe we could get a CD made! Does anyone know any more about it, or who might know?