Musical Continuity in LOST IN SPACE - The Index: Episode 4
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- A thorough look at the exceptional musical coherency in the original Lost in Space series, featuring music by John Williams, Herman Stein, Alexander Courage, and others.
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The music of LIS always felt like another character in the show. A main character full of emotion, excitement, and often scary! Loved it so much.
A very precise observation! 🏆
Oh, where to begin? Firstly, I cannot thank you more highly for putting into words and vision my feelings for the music used in Lost in Space which became the soundtrack of my life growing up. It was the music of this show which turned me on to classical music and the collecting of film music. I agree with all the comments you have made here. In my case I have always loved the themes written for the episode "My Friend Mr. Nobody." The final six minutes of music in that episode created a sense of wonder about the universe within me that has not abated to this day.
Someone needs to write a book about the scoring for Lost in Space. I think you would do an excellent job of it. Moreover, someone needs, desperately, to interview John Williams about how he developed the themes for Lost in Space before he leaves this mortal coil. He is not a young man afterall and no one has really gone into deep detail about his scoring for the show ever.
Thank you so much for this excellent video.
I am not a writer by trade but am flattered by your suggestion and agree about getting Williams on the record before he's no longer available. I haven't checked, but I suspect most, if not all of the other artists who collaborated in the musical evolution of "LiS" have already passed away. 🤷♂️ I always looked forward to the “Penny” cue whenever it turned up: elegiac, melancholy, lonely sounding and immensely beautiful. Agree about the closing of "Mr Nobody" also-enthralling. Your thoughtful reply made my day 😀
@@tonykluck8458 And your reply made my day down here on a hot summer's day in Melbourne Australia. I have tried everything to make contact with Mr. William's agent and other Hollywood music industry people to try and suggest the idea of a full-scale biography, all to no avail. It would break my heart if he passed without talking about his LIS days.
I also agree about the "Penny" theme. It can stop me in my tracks with its beauty. If you are in the US maybe you can do more than I have been able to accomplish to talk to someone to suggest the biography idea. Anyway...best wishes to you.
Lost in Space producer Irwin Allen sure saw the musical imagination and drama Williams could contribute to his big-screen Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno!
This is so great. And I found another person who put their cassette recorder by the TV to capture the amazing score.
It was the thing to do back then.
I did this a lot, too. It worked, even if it was crude 😂
I had many episodes on cassette. Moved from Dallas back to ALABAMA in the 4th grade and no reruns there for almost 10 years. Those cassettes were gold to me.
Bravo! What a wonderful study on arguably some of the best music ever written for television. I happily own the box set (and even provided recreations of the logos for the packaging artwork, and many other Lost In Space products). I too, used to put a tape recorder up to the TV to capture the music, especially the 3rd season theme. I didn't know anyone cared as much for this music as I did... and you clearly do. Subscribed!
Thanks! And great work on the logos! It's hard to find a good high quality image of those.
This is great! So good to finally have a video focusing on this brilliant set of music from my favorite childhood show. I've been a fan of this music since I was five and have been a collector of the various score releases over the years including the more recent and definitive La la Land Box set. So much can be said about the various cues throughout the series but I feel you covered it very nicely here anyway. Bravo and thank you for puting this interesting and informative visual essay together!
John Williams, and other musical musical geniuses made this a true standout in Television history. Truly unforgettable music scores and done brilliantly! Peace
Thank You so much for this comprehensive presentation. ❤❤❤❤❤
One of the most heart warming things about this show, has to be it's wonderful music !!!!
This is so awesome- from this, the wild wild weat, even Gilligan's island, star trek and the 6 million dollar man, I've enjoyed the music as much as the stories and action. Love the family theme, the cliffhanger, all of it. Thanks for the post!
Great presentation. Lost in Space music is certainly memorable and ideally suited to the scenes. Lost in Space without music is like bread without butter. "Oh, the pain, the pain".
well guess now i need to go dig out those old lost in space tapes good video dude
Bravo! Thank you! I didn't realize this music was more than "Johnny Williams." As a composer myself, I enjoy learning how and when such greats could use compelling background music and then pivotal foreground.
Some music was also used on both Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
This is great! Thank you! I've always thought that the music gave this show enormous authenticity. The music many times made what would have been really cheesy looking scenes seem magical and interesting. it made what often looked like a low budget show look high budget!
As I child, the music always made me scared whenever a monster appeared.
One of my favorite bits comes from Herrmann's score for Garden of Evil and was used in The Lost Civilization & Wreck of the Robot
Yes, the cue called "The Quarrel", made for some very memorable moments.
Also used to marvelous effect in “Follow the Leader” when a disembodied spirit of a warrior leader takes over professor Robinson’s mind.
This warmed my soul to it's deepest depth! This video exceeds the term 'beyond well done!'
I'm in the process of preparing a video and PowerPoinT presentation for an anniversaial remembrance of a horrific mid-air explosion which killed 81, including a
You can hear hints of William's Star Wars music in Lost In Space, for sure.
Very nicely done! Thank you for putting this together. It's great to put titles to cues, and names to composers. Loved the quotes from LisFan!
Mullendore's motifs for the episode THe Haunted Lighthouse" were especially memorable for me.
Agree all the way around. Recently I began transferring my cassettes from the late 60s and early 70s to digital format. And what did I find? Not just a few tapes made by sticking a cassette recorder next to the small mono TV speaker to capture music and sound effects from Lost in Space. As the music has finally become available over the past decade or so, I find myself often replaying "My Friend, Mr. Nobody" tracks - outstanding work from Williams here. Enjoyed your observations here! Thanks.
Excellent review of the music. Splendid. I have the boxed set you mentioned. I thank you for making a lot of LIS music fans so happy. I'm over the moon!!
The music cue that always get me on a visceral level is _The Landing,_ what with its bells and suspenseful tempo.
I suspect that's why I like when James Horner uses what I call "anvil music," most notably in _Wrath of Khan._
John has always been amazing; but also mentioned fantastic talents.
It just impresses me so much how the music from any composer that's not Williams immediately feels like old 50's stuff. But as soon as Williams comes in, you get that other worldly feeling of his music. The world will never got enough music from Williamsno mamtter how many amazing scores he does.
Speak for yourself. Every other composer who worked on the show managed to match his style to the musical identity that Williams established. Even Alexander Courage, known for his work on the contemporary Star Trek which includes its iconic theme music, brought his own sense of otherworldliness to Lost in Space, and many others followed suit, so the only thing that “impresses” you is your own superficiality towards any composer who is not Williams.
I was around 10 when this was first shown in the UK.
I knew straight away the music was special, and it helped make the series great.
What composers they had , and the orchestras were great.
There is no modern science fiction series that can match the compositions.
I actually created a new opening for the new series of LIS using the original series 3 music
Wow !!!! I've really got to get this music... Thank you ☺
What a great video. Thank you so much for doing this!
The music was excellent
I loved the theme by Mullendore for Rhe haunted lighthouse.
Outstanding!
I think you missed a brief bit of music when Will and Smith first find the alien ship in WISH UPON A STAR. There's a bit of music that represents the earlier weird music from THERE WERE GIANTS/HUNGRY SEA in the cave city. Special series, indeed and I mean it but the entire IRWIN ALLEN four shows CAN BE said to be special and musically as well, especially LAND OF THE GIANTS and VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Great scores all.
Reminds me of Poseidon Adventure ... foreshado
Who did the musical motifs when the Robinson Family was entering the Freezing Tubes, and up to the musical motifs when the Jupiter 2 Liftoff the Launch Pad in Episode 1 of The Reluctant Stowaway. And also the musical motif as the Jupiter 2 was going through Escape Velocity, and Dr. Smith was unstrapping himself from the Launch Couch. Those music scores are Absolutely Awesome!! BTW, as Dr. Smith was unstrapping himself from the Launch Couch, that seems to have been the musical motifs for Dr. Smith when he was doing something sneaky in the 1st few Episodes in season 1. It has a Dark and Mysterious music tone. LaLa Land Records Didn't even include the musical score during the Final Countdown, as the Jupiter 2 Liftoff from the Launch Pad, which could actually be heard just a bit before Dr. Smith lets out his 1st Famous Scream. It wasn't the Comedic Screaming that Dr. Smith done as the show went on. The Scream in the Reluctant Stowaway had to do with the Anti-Gravity Drive during Liftoff that caused the Glow around the Spacecraft, to escape Earth's Gravity, and yet, the Anti-Gravity Drive was never mentioned in the show. It's explained on the Lost in Space Fan Website, and on Wikipedia as part of the Propulsion System of The Jupiter 2. Guess you can tell, I'm a HUGE Lost in Space Fan!!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🌌‼️🤣
You did a marvelous job with this video! Well Done.
Great stuff man
You need to do Outer Limits and Twilight Zone too.
Feels like Twilight Zone.
The music made the show
You missed that the music during the Chariot in whirlpool was from JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, THE ENEMY BELOW and THE LAST WAGON.
not to mention THE ENEMY BELOW.
Some of the music would have worked with some Star Trek scenes as well.
Bom dia, procuro por uma musica, que o B9 ouvia quando estava no espaço, era chamada em nossa traduçao por musica espacial, e tambem fazia parte de um comercial de amortecedores Monroe no Brasil, ja procurei e nao encontro.
You can hear how a lot of what John Williams wrote for Lost in Space came from the ideas he was using in this: ua-cam.com/video/SzhRRiV1ncc/v-deo.html
Thanks for sharing, did not know about this.
@@enemyofbohemia man… thank you so much for posting this video.
@@gepmrk My pleasure.
Is the series' music available to purchase?
I have no idea what you're talking about here - all I know is that the LiS music had way too many trumpets in it. Painful for me to listen to in many episodes.
That’s all on you for not paying attention to the video and being overly sensitive to trumpets, which are effective in conveying the gravity of any given situation (not that they’re even playing all the time), so I suggest that you stop blaming the music for your pain and go see a doctor.