Film Music Site - Ron Grainer Early Movie Themes Soundtrack (Ron Grainer)

#	Track	Duration
1.	Introduction (From Maigret TV, 1960)	2:10
2.	Main Title (From The Running Man. 1961)	1:51
3.	Main Title (From A Kind of Loving, 1962)	2:09
4.	Main Theme (From The Dock Brief aka Trial Error, 1962)	2:00
5.	Bristol Express (From Some People, 1962)	2:54
6.	Main Titles (From Station Six Sahara, 1962)	2:43
7.	Rocket's First Run (From Giants of Steam TV, 1963)	3:03
8.	Main Title (From Doctor Who, 1963)	2:20
9.	Suite 1 (From Home Made Car, 1963)	3:57
10.	Suite 2 (From Home Made Car, 1963)	3:24
11.	Main Theme (From Mouse on the Moon, 1963)	2:03
12.	Main Title (From Night Must Fall, 1964)	2:47
13.	Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1964)	2:23
14.	Two Romantic Strangers (From The Moon-Spinners, 1964)	2:51
15.	Main Title (From Nothing But the Best, 1964)	2:33
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Best Ron Grainer Early Movie Themes

Added on Thursday, October 29, 2020

Disques Cin�musique releases a digital album dedicated to composer Ron Grainer (1921-1981). It�s our latest title of a series which includes so far Georges Auric, Jean Fran�aix, Joseph Kosma, Georges Van Parys, Andr� Previn and Leigh Harline.

The Australian born Ron Grainer became in the sixties one of the most inventive and sought after composer for the screen in Great Britain. Catchy melodies with offbeat orchestrations featuring brass, percussion and electric guitars remain the trademark of Grainer�s style. He was early labelled as an expert in strong main themes for TV programs. Some of them remain classics, like Maigret, Doctor Who The Man with a Suitcase, and the The Prisoner.

In 1963, Grainer was hired to deliver a punchy Main Title for the long feature drama The Running Man directed by Carol Reed, the rest of the score being left to the old fashioned William Alwyn. This peculiar theme, a real gem, paved the way to The Prisoner�s one in 1967.

During a few years Ron Grainer collaborated with the pop group The Eagles, for whom he composed many hits available on single records, including some cinematic ones as Station Six Sahara, starring the sultry Carol Baker.

From the teen-movie Some People, available on EP, we chose the instrumental track Bristol Express instead of the title song performed by Valerie Mountain and the Eagles. The pop sound of the Eagles subsequently influenced Grainer in return as shows up his theme for Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.

We included one selection from the soundtracks The Moon-Spinners and Nothing but the Best, which were available on LP and have already been reissued digitally in their complete form by Disques Cinemusique.

The short BBC documentary Giants of Steam features a exuberant score by Grainer that was fortunately released on EP at the time. We picked the first track for now but we will soon make it available in its complete form. On the other hand, the long Suite to the humorous short feature Home Made Car had to be extracted and edited from the movie broadcast.

Ron Grainer�s assignments in the 70�s proved to be less interesting and successful, consisting mostly in second rate movies and quickly forgotten TV series � except for the music theme for Roah Dahl�s Tales of the Unexpected, in 1979.

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