Where are you Graham, I'm sure you would know what this is?

c'mon put me and Gae out of our misery!

[Harry Robinson (Harry Robertson)
Born in scotland, Harry Robinson began his career working for EMI records and as a composer for TV.
In 1968 he composed the memorable theme music
for Hammer's "Journey to the unknown" TV series and scored four episodes.
He later became one of the company's more
enduring composers of the 70's working on
"The Vampire Lovers" (1970) "Lust For A Vampire" (1971) "Countess Dracula" (1971)
"Twins Of Evil" (1971) and "Demons Of The Mind" (1972).
as Harry Robertson (His original name) he
produced "Hawk The Slayer" (ITC,1980),wich
he also co-scripted and scored.]

Gae, Spot on!....I would sooo much love to hear that theme again.

Marcelo, Thanks for putting us out of our misery.

Another great score from this rather underutilized film composer was that to the 1972 movie THE BEST PAIR OF LEGS IN THE BUSINESS. Genre-wise, a million miles away from the world of Hammer, THE BEST PAIR OF LEGS IN THE BUSINESS was a wonderful tragi-comedy set at a seedy English holiday resort. Reg Varney (of ON THE BUSES fame) was brilliant as a fading song-and-dance drag-queen struggling to maintain his ‘pier-end’ popularity whilst trying to regain the respect of his adulterous wife and aloof children. A great supporting cast, including Johnny Briggs (Coronation Street’s Mike Baldwin) as a sharp-talking barman, adds to the authenticity of the movie’s setting. Here, Robinson produces a light-romantic pop-styled score typical of the time, and also incorporates a poignant, bitter-sweet theme for flute, that perfectly captures the desperation of Varney’s pathetic stage-performer. A fine film, made at a time when Britain’s film industry was in sharp decline.

Robinson’s score isn’t just pleasant, it’s heartfelt and positively uplifting.

My respect for him holds no bounds, and indeed his music for Hammer was magnificent, BUT...

According to the liner notes on one of the Hammer compilations, he was also at some time in his youth the dreaded... LORD ROCKINGHAM! The aforementioned nobleman perpetrated a single on us all many years ago called "Hoots Mon", which had lyrics that went,

"Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!"

Gae

And Marcelo, where are you nowadays?

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Back to Hammer
By the way,
No new GDI releases...
We are waiting!!!

About an expanded CD of Frankenstein Created Woman.

Or A Thrillers CDs with The Maniac,Die Die My Darling, Paranoiac, Nightmare and Crescendo.

So much music missing on CD's...

A good friend of mine is Argentine, his name is Diego and he lived here in England for the last ten years or so, about a year ago he went back to live in his home city of Buenos Aires, then two Month's ago he suddenly turned up back here, I said "Diego, good to see you but I thought you weren't coming back?" Diego: "Tim, haven't you heard, my country is f****** man!"....he was able to joke about it but in retrospect it wasn't an easy time for him.

Hope everythings all right with you Marcelo, let us know!

You make some good suggestions for future Hammer releases. As regards full scores for things like FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, I have a bad feeling that maybe some of the sources have deteriorated beyond repair, and so they only put out a suite of the surviving bits on the FRANK compilation.