I'll try and explain the situation with the music as best I can.
The Fanderson Space 1999 CD releases were very limited; I think they pressed
around 900 of each. This avoids having to pay musician re-use fees (like
repeat fees for actors), as there's a cut off point, which might well be
1000. Fanderson had to negotiate with Zomba music who at that time owned the
Barry Gray tapes from Space year 1. However, their releases were incomplete
which is one one episode suite appears in mono.
I'm going off the point here. The rights to the UFO music are seemingly
owned by Carlton - Carlton have given the go-ahead for the CD, and so must
fit in somewhere.
The Fanderson releases, although official to some extent, must not enter
public domain, as they have only been licenced for (effectively) club
members; that's why Fanderson have a clause in their membership which
prohibits anyone from selling merchandise. (Despite this, the Space CDs
still turn up on ebay regularly.) If Carlton wanted to put a music-only
track on the DVD, they would (I think) potentially have to pay the re-use
fees, which would bump up the cost of the DVDs considerably. The best bet
therefore is for Fanderson to release the UFO music.
It should be noted that quite a bit of the UFO music does not exist in
stereo (or at least on multi-track tapes where the music can be mixed down
into stereo). Barry unfortunately had a habit of saving money (which given
the cost of reel to reel audio tape isn't surprising), and wiped the music
tapes with each successive series. Hence, the reason why one of the Space
episode suites is in mono - Fanderson had to use one of Barry Gray's
personal reels which exists in mono and single track. I think it's been said
that no multi-track tape exists prior to Thunderbirds, and after that it's
hit and miss as to whether there are multi-track tapes.
Hope that answers some questions (probably posing more along the way!)
Gareth Bevan writes:
>I've suggested a number of ideas to Fanderson, which they may or may not
>take on board. It might be worth considering releasing the music as an
>audio
>track on the DVD releases -
This is a great idea, and fans have suggested it for the previous
Carlton DVD's, but so far it hasn't happened. :-( For some odd
reason, the Carlton folks say that they don't have the rights
to do a music-only track, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense
if Carlton just allowed Fanderson to release a soundtrack CD!
Perhaps someone smarter than I could explain that to me? :-)
I would suggest that if the DVD's had a music-only track, they
should use the mono mixes on Barry Gray's personal tapes. Then
Fanderson could release their new stereo mixes on CD, and not
have to worry about including every single bit of music, because
it'd already be available on the DVD's music track. Also, they
wouldn't have to worry as much about fans not being interested
in buying the CD, because the CD would have much better sound
quality than the DVD.
Just a thought....
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