And who did the original logo? It was Horner, wasn't it?

Which has Goldsmith's Universal logo, his Cinergi logo, his Oscar theme, and a colossal mass of other great downloadables. Enjoy if you're able. (wish you could, dantoris, but surely there's a way?)

Walter Greene
Jimmy McHugh
John Williams
James Horner
Jerry Goldsmith
(source: www.filmmusic.com )

In the early to mid-sixties, several films used the Universal Goldsmith logo, originally from A Gathering Of Eagles.

NP-A Far Off Place

I've never heard A GATHERING OF EAGLES, so I can't speak for that one. However, that was released in 1963, and the "classic" Universal logo as I think of it only pertains to the 1970s.

Puzzles, puzzles ...

wait, all I have to do is follow James' link ... see you later, gentlemen.

In the early to mid 70s, when I first started going regularly to the cinema and noticing scores, I was always hooked by the logo music. It created a real sense of anticipation. Some of my favourite films in those innocent days (Earthquake, for example) were preluded by a wonderfully strong deep brass thing.

Years later I saw A Gathering Of Eagles on TV, and I immediately recognized the pre-credits musical quote, when you see the Universal globe. After a few minutes the main titles started, and I realised that this was the basis for the whole score.

Ford T.? Roger F.? Anyone? ANYONE?

Incidentally, James's link resulted in "Connection REFUSED," much more hostile and insistent than "Connection timed out." So who knows what info was posted there ...

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9059/eagles.htm

You can decide for yourself, I guess. I'm still confused.

Now about that link... it's working for me, so I don't know what the problem is. Try this instead: http://www.soundtrack.net . It's the same web site at a different address. Once you're there, click on "resources" and once you're at that page then click on "logo music."

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Originally posted by starblade:
Does anyone know if this piece by Goldsmith exists anywhere? I'd like to have it, if it's available.

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I ripped it from my "Dragonheart" DVD a few days ago and converted it into a wav file (should even be in Dolby Surround, if I've used the program correctly ). It's cool!

Hmmmm......I think I've began a crusade now to find and acquire all the famous logo musics over the years. This could be interesting....

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Originally posted by starblade:
Oh yeah, Marian;
I would be happy to get that wav. file from you, if it's not too much trouble. :-)

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No problem, I've e-mailed you.

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Hmmmm......I think I've began a crusade now to find and acquire all the famous logo musics over the years. This could be interesting....

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Yeah, I intend to do the same thing. At least, I'm going to rip all the logo music from the few DVD's I have so far and make a compilation CD.

Fox has only had the one fanfare

Warner Bros. has a fanfare--I think it's the one on the front of Gremlins, because I saw another Warner Bros. movie (older than Gremlins) somewhere along the line and heard that beginning bit and immediately thought of Gremlins

I know I've heard once (and my district manager told me that he remembers one) a fanfare-ish piece of music for Paramount

There's Tri-Star logo piece

I believe there's one for Columbia also

We know there's been several for Universal

There was one for Orion Pictures

Goldsmith's one for Cinergi

Silvestri did one for Silver Pictures (I have this one)

I think someone (Goldsmith?) did one for Carolco

There was a kinda cheesy one for Cannon Pictures

that's all I can think of now.......

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Originally posted by starblade:
Fox has only had the one fanfare

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But in different versions. There's the 1953 version (although the Empire Strikes Back booklet says that it was composed in 1933!?), which is included on all those Varese Fox Classics CDs, and the expanded 1954 versions, which is at least available on the Star Wars: A New Hope special edition CD, and as a re-recording by Williams on the other 2 special edition albums.

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Warner Bros. has a fanfare--I think it's the one on the front of Gremlins, because I saw another Warner Bros. movie (older than Gremlins) somewhere along the line and heard that beginning bit and immediately thought of Gremlins

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I don't know what music was used for Gremlins, so I can't say if it's the same fanfare as the one I know. But Max Steiner composed a Warner Bros. fanfare in the Golden Age, which he directly incorporated into many of his main titles. That's the reason why you can hear it several times on the Gerhard recordings.

I don't know if the short "jingle" on the Matrix DVD is used in other instances as well.

Other logos:

Joseph Harnell's MGM/UA piece (which I never liked, it was kind of harsh and ugly to my ears, but that's the one they picked -- if I remember right, he'd written prettier alternatives, but that's the one they picked.

Michael Kamen's logo for Morgan Creek is obviously based on his theme for that company's ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES.

As Goldsmith's logo for Carolco is obviously based on his RAMBO theme for them.

I forgot about the UA logo music (the one that was used on the middle Bonds)

I don't know anything about pre 70's logo music (like Republic, Embassy, American International, etc), or what they were (if there were--I'm sure some of them did)

Gosh-now I'm going to have to go play all my laserdiscs and tapes and go rent movies again just to find them all...........whew