Barry Gray Music page

I just wanted to drop Marc Martin a note of thanks for the work he did on
the Barry Gray music of the Week page. While he was doing it it was a page
I checked EVERY SATURDAY without fail for new files. I enjoyed just about
every file there Marc and as a parent and a music educator it became a
valuable resource for me. Next time I teach secondary music (I'm assigned
to an LD type elementary program and a Secondary DD program this year so I
probably really can't do this type of lesson) (LD= Learning Disable, DD =
Developmentally Disabled) I plan on doing a Barry Gray lesson because the
man wrote terrific music for children! And like the great classic composers
he never wrote down to kids, something that made his work on Fireball and
Thunderbirds wonderful.

The greatest thing about the page and about Barry's music in general is that
I know/knew so little about it. While I was growing up I knew I liked all
the music I heard on Thunderbirds, UFO and Space 1999. Now after hearing
him on the Fanderson tape (A Tribute to Barry Gray), the music on the page
and other online resources (You know who you are!) every unheard piece,
every new fact about Barry adds to the enjoyment and respect for the man and
his career.

It's important to keep this music available and in the public eye because
its a treasure. My children love his music especially (As I've said before)
the main UFO theme, The Joe 90 Theme, the Thunderbirds March and The
Thunderbird 6 music.

Marc I owe you many thanks for the weekly posts of music on the page and I
appreciate the work that went into it! I'm sorry it had to go on hold but
fannish activity should never be a burden, it should be fun!

Have a great time at the C21 convention! I want to see pictures! Marc, I
owe you a couple of letters anyway and hopefully I will have time to write
them this weekend.

Phil writes:
>Marc I owe you many thanks for the weekly posts of music on the page and I
>appreciate the work that went into it! I'm sorry it had to go on hold but
>fannish activity should never be a burden, it should be fun!

Thanks for the kind words, Phil!

I've gotten many nice e-mails about the Barry Gray page in the last
few weeks, so I'm glad to see that it was much appreciated! It was
certainly one of the more popular areas on my UFO website, with some
tracks being downloaded over 1000 times!

Hopefully we'll see more commercial/Fanderson CD releases of Barry
Gray music in the future. I see that Fanderson's excellent
Space:1999 Year One soundtrack CD is now "out of print" :-(

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

Phil writes:
>I'm sorry it had to go on hold but fannish activity should never be a burden,
>it should be fun!

I guess I should point out that my decision to discontinue the Barry
Gray Music of the Week site had nothing to do with it being a burden
-- there were a number of factors involved, most significantly the
new 250 MB limitation on disk space from Yahoo, but also a lack of
free time & energy due to chronic health problems, plus a desire to
refocus on the website's main subject -- UFO!

And BTW, before anyone gets too concerned about my health, I should
say that I think I will be able to recover, but it will probably take
several more months (and I know I said the same thing months ago...)
Basically, I'm the victim of modern medicine -- too many antibiotics
and steroid nasal sprays have left me with a fungus overgrowth in my
sinuses & ears and a depressed immune system, so I'm exhausted a lot
and often feel like I'm about to catch a cold. However, I find that
I improve dramatically in low humidity environments, so I am actually
looking forward to my 11 hour plane trip to Birmingham England!!

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

Yes,
but it's almost permanent rain in the UK at the moment!
Grant.

--orig
I improve dramatically in low humidity environments, so I am actually
looking forward to my 11 hour plane trip to Birmingham England!!


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Grant writes:
>Yes, but it's almost permanent rain in the UK at the moment!

Well, it can't be any worse than Seattle... if it's raining, then
it'll be like I never left home!

Besides, the weather forecast (for what it's worth) looks pretty good to me:

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/Coventry_UK_c.html

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

> Yes,
> but it's almost permanent rain in the UK at the moment!
> Grant.

Really not in the Highlands...been pretty warm<boggle>

have fun you conventioneers!
>
> --orig.
> I improve dramatically in low humidity environments, so I am actually
> looking forward to my 11 hour plane trip to Birmingham England!!
>
Only 11 hours? Takes that long by train to Scotland from London!
BTW sorry the Barry Gray Music Page is no more:-(

Sheila

Still UFO Crazy crazy crazy crrraaazzzzy!