CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 The Christian Science Monitor posted an old November 1981 article about (the early days of) News Music. It includes mentions of themes from Telesound, ABC News, News People (by Tuesday, but they didn't mention the firm by name) & CBS Sunday Morning theme 'Ablassen'. It also mentions Bob Israel of Score & David Horak from (the now defunct) Telesound. I'm shocked that they didn't mention about Frank Gari. He probably didn't peak on the news side until a heavy volume of stations used the Hello campaigns. Except for the stations that used movie scores for news themes like the 007 Theme & Cool Hand Luke, companies of Telesound, Mayoham, Randall, Peters, Klien &, and TM, among some others were scattered around, and it wasn't a clear leading music company. It wasn't until 1984 when a certain Texas firm and a certain Tennessee firm would start their shops and the rest was history. Sorry, I had to add that in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 319 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Nice article. I am surprised they didn't mention Tuesday, which had to be the most prolific composer of the '70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hathawaynson2 38 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 The Christian Science Monitor posted an old November 1981 article about (the early days of) News Music. It includes mentions of themes from Telesound, ABC News, News People (by Tuesday, but they didn't mention the firm by name) & CBS Sunday Morning theme 'Ablassen'. It also mentions Bob Israel of Score & David Horak from (the now defunct) Telesound. I'm shocked that they didn't mention about Frank Gari. He probably didn't peak on the news side until a heavy volume of stations used the Hello campaigns. Except for the stations that used movie scores for news themes like the 007 Theme & Cool Hand Luke, companies of Telesound, Mayoham, Randall, Peters, Klien &, and TM, among some others were scattered around, and it wasn't a clear leading music company. It wasn't until 1984 when a certain Texas firm and a certain Tennessee firm would start their shops and the rest was history. Sorry, I had to add that in there. I listened to 'Ablassen' that is the theme song to CBS Sunday Morning theme, it was pretty cool to listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hathawaynson2 38 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 The Christian Science Monitor posted an old November 1981 article about (the early days of) News Music. It includes mentions of themes from Telesound, ABC News, News People (by Tuesday, but they didn't mention the firm by name) & CBS Sunday Morning theme 'Ablassen'. It also mentions Bob Israel of Score & David Horak from (the now defunct) Telesound. I'm shocked that they didn't mention about Frank Gari. He probably didn't peak on the news side until a heavy volume of stations used the Hello campaigns. Except for the stations that used movie scores for news themes like the 007 Theme & Cool Hand Luke, companies of Telesound, Mayoham, Randall, Peters, Klien &, and TM, among some others were scattered around, and it wasn't a clear leading music company. It wasn't until 1984 when a certain Texas firm and a certain Tennessee firm would start their shops and the rest was history. Sorry, I had to add that in there. I listened to 'Ablassen' which was pretty cool for a CBS Sunday Morning Theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hathawaynson2 38 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 The Christian Science Monitor posted an old November 1981 article about (the early days of) News Music. It includes mentions of themes from Telesound, ABC News, News People (by Tuesday, but they didn't mention the firm by name) & CBS Sunday Morning theme 'Ablassen'. It also mentions Bob Israel of Score & David Horak from (the now defunct) Telesound. I'm shocked that they didn't mention about Frank Gari. He probably didn't peak on the news side until a heavy volume of stations used the Hello campaigns. Except for the stations that used movie scores for news themes like the 007 Theme & Cool Hand Luke, companies of Telesound, Mayoham, Randall, Peters, Klien &, and TM, among some others were scattered around, and it wasn't a clear leading music company. It wasn't until 1984 when a certain Texas firm and a certain Tennessee firm would start their shops and the rest was history. Sorry, I had to add that in there. I listened to 'Ablassen' which was pretty cool for a CBS Sunday Morning Theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Frank Gari was just starting to wade into news music at the time this article was written - Hello News was probably just entering use then, right? I don't think he made major inroads until 83/84, when "Turn To News" and "News Series 2000" entered usage. I think the article was right to focus on what they focused on. The World News Tonight theme was nothing short of revolutionary, both as the first legitimate national news theme and one of the first examples of what Arnold would call "Sonic Branding". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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