INVASION: UFO music?

Hi all,

Does anyone recognize this piece of music as being used
in INVASION:UFO?

http://ufoseries.com/music/invasion2.mp3

This sounds familiar to me, but in scanning through a
copy of INVASION:UFO, I'm not locating it...

Marc

Maybe my memory is failing me (as I haven't seen Invasion UFO movie since I was about 11 years old some 10 years ago) but was it used in the Interceptor destruction sequence at the start of the "Computer Affair" segment of the film?? I could be wrong though(!)

Dan.
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Hi all,

Does anyone recognize this piece of music as being used
in INVASION:UFO?

http://ufoseries.com/music/invasion2.mp3

This sounds familiar to me, but in scanning through a
copy of INVASION:UFO, I'm not locating it...

Marc




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> http://ufoseries.com/music/invasion2.mp3
>
> This sounds familiar to me, but in scanning through a
> copy of INVASION:UFO, I'm not locating it...

Hi all,

Okay, the mystery has been figured out - although it
brings up another mystery in the process.

First off, that piece of music was found and sent to
me by Shaqui Le Vesconte, and is a library track that
he stumbled upon and recognized as being from INVASION:UFO.
The track is called "Full Alert" by John Scott, and
is on a library CD called "Military/War 1".

The music can be heard on the UK Channel 5 PAL VHS tape of
INVASION:UFO about 1.25.55 into the episode, after
Straker (in the alien dome) finds his gear and sees
an alien double. The track plays repeatedly until about
1.28.40, when the island explodes. Thanks again
to Shaqui for that information.

Now, here's the new mystery -- the Italian UFO DVD
has INVASION:UFO as an extra feature, but this music
is *not* on this -- not on the English or Italian
audio! So that means that there is more than
one version of INVASION:UFO floating around! Who'd
have thought?

Marc

> The track is called "Full Alert" by John Scott, and
> is on a library CD called "Military/War 1".

Marc,

I can't find this CD on the Internet, I've only found an LP
titled "Bruton Music - Dramatic Action" which contains the following
titles:

01.Steve Gray - In Pursuit [02:53]
02.Steve Gray - In Pursuit (Alternate Resolve End) [00:06]
03.Steve Gray - Roughed Up [02:23]
04.Steve Gray - Roughed Up (Alternate End to Dark Chord) [00:08]
05.Steve Gray - Roughed Up (Frantic Speeded Up Version) [01:31]
06.John A. Coleman - Daring Endeavour [01:29]
07.John A. Coleman - Daring Endeavour (Without Brass) [01:29]
08.John A. Coleman - Pressing Endeavour [01:39]
09.John A. Coleman - Pressing Endeavour (Short Version) [00:30]
10.I. Martin and B. Dee - Devil's Leap [01:03]
11.Mike Vickers - Breakneck [02:01]
12.Stokoe and Bennett - Busy Highway [01:56]
13.John Scott - War of Nerves [02:37]
14.John Scott - Test of Strength [03:25]
15.John Scott - Full Alert [01:10]
16.John Scott - Face of Danger [01:38]
17.John Scott - Face of Great Danger [00:43]
18.John Scott - Motordown [02:22]
19.John Scott - Motordown Fast [01:06]
20.John Scott - Tearaway [01:33]
21.John Scott - Knife Fight [01:09]
22.Chris Cunning - Racing [01:36]
 
It was released in the UK in 1978. The length of the LP is 34:27
min. (But I don't own it.)

Christian

Christian J wrote (referring to a Library CD:
"I can't find this CD on the Internet..."

Library CDs are not intended for public distribution. They are produced
by Music Library companies who distribute them free to film, TV, radio
etc production companies. They are usually conveniently themed e.g.
"Action", "Romantic", "The Sixties", "Electronic", "Blues", etc, and if
an editor is looking for a snatch of "off the shelf" music they can look
through the appropriate library CDs.
The production company pays a set fee for the amount of music used. The
composer receives a cut from the fee. This tends to be less expensive
than using a piece of music commercially released and very much cheaper
than having music especially composed and recorded. Getting the rights
to use
a commercially released peice of music for a particular project can also
be difficult and sometimes impossible - it is far easier to use library
music.

The music in music libraries is usually either composed especially with
library use in mind (in which case there are often versions of different
lengths of the same piece of music on a given CD, from "stings" of a few
seconds to versions lasting several minutes) or music which was
originally composed and recorded for another TV programme or film.
Usually the latter would be incidental music rather than the main theme
if the theme was well-known. I have seen, for example, incidental music
composed for The Avengers on library CDs.

Although the ITC series had a considerable amount of music specially
composed, they also used a some library music (apart from recycling
music from their other series). On The Prisoner 3 CD set there are quite
a large number of library music tracks (although they tend to be quirky
choices and not of the type normally used in the adventure series.).

This isn't a "conventional" CD in the sense it is not commercially
available, but one of many stock library music CDs produced by music
publishing companies that TV and film people can drop in to their
productions without having to hire a musician/writer, (or pay
royalties to.)

The "Invasion UFO" piece of dog-sh*t was one of a lot of exploitative
videos produced in the 1980's by badly hacking together a number of
TV shows together into a loosely fitting storyline, and adding their
own titles. ("Destination Moonbase Alpha" is another that springs to
mind). Their sole intent was to cash in to the booming video rental
market at that time.

I suspect they added library music as it is royalty free, otherwise
they would have to pay out to Barry Gray, or his estate, for every
copy, and being a bunch of cheapskates, would never wish to resort to
that.

Frankly this stuff is REALLY NASTY, and not worth bothering to even
look at. There is nothing new that isn't already on the original TV
show apart from some dodgy music and cheesy chroma-key titles.

Avoid this rubbish.

Rob

> I suspect they added library music as it is royalty free, otherwise
> they would have to pay out to Barry Gray, or his estate, for every
> copy, and being a bunch of cheapskates, would never wish to resort to
> that.

Actually, the reason they used library music on INVASION:UFO was
because they were on a deadline, as there was a Canadian station
that wanted to broadcast it, and they couldn't get Barry Gray's
participation in time. The rest of the Gerry Anderson compilation
movies were done with Barry Grays participation.

Marc