Goldsmith worked on Small Soldiers and Gremlins for only one reason - he has a very fruitful collaboration with director Joe Dante. Together, they've made some pretty funny films, the 'burbs. Personally, I have a feeling Jerry likes to work with Dante - it's a lot of fun to make movies with your friends!

PeterK

I'm a newcomer here myself -- one of those FSM people -- with a kind of obscure Goldsmith question I'm hoping someone can answer for me. Actually, two questions, but here's the obscure one first:

I was reading through the IMDb listing on Goldsmith today and was surprised to see the notation that he was "sometimes credited as" Michael Hennagin. Does anyone know what this is all about???

Your questions are all good especially the first one. I am completely stomped.

Peter D,

Odd, I was perusing the Goldsmith section today myself, and for the first time noticed that "Hennigan" thing. It wasn't there before (and I've contributed to that filmography, so I'd remember).

It seems a trifle spurious to me. I've NEVER heard of it, and I ALSO know that when the "Hennigan-scored" BLACK SADDLE was paraphrased on an LP in the early 60s ("Dick Powell Presents"), it was credited to Goldsmith.

But was it really? I've never seen the album up close -- but no prior film/discography has ever specified that Goldsmith is credited as HENNIGAN.

Ditto the alleged Hennigan credit for VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA -- I don't have the "Jonah and the Whale" CD, but if this were the case, shouldn't the liner notes have mentioned Hennigan, and shouldn't there have been a lot more Q&A amongst us internet people before now??

Scott

Sorry, ain't got no picture.

Besides STAR TREK, the Blaster Beam was also used in the 1979 scores to THE BLACK HOLE (John Barry) and especially METEOR (Laurence Rosenthal).

The instrument was created by Craig Hundley, a budding musician who had been a child actor -- had, in fact, played Captain Kirk's nephew on the original STAR TREK series.

Hundley used the Blaster Beam extensively throughout his own score to ALLIGATOR (1980) -- a soundtrack which also extensively interpolated bits from Jerry Goldsmith's TWILIGHT ZONE episode score "The Invaders."

Hundley later changed his name to Craig Huxley and founded the label Sonic Atmospheres, which was devoted primarily to his own music, but also issued a couple of movie soundtracks, most famously DREAMSCAPE (Maurice Jarre, all-electronic) and David Shire's symphonic masterpiece RETURN TO OZ.

scott

As far as the Royal Scottish Orchestra is concerned, I doubt it very seriously that he used the same orchestra. In fact I am almost sure he used freelance musicians. In other words musicians from different orchestras. Gotta check the cd.

Scott

My favorite track on the Frontier cd is porbably the Logan's Run one (simply because I don't have the original one).

Why is the tempo slower on the special cd you have. It probably has to do with the conductor. Very rarely do I detect re-recordings in the same tempo as in the original recordings. Even on the Frontier album you can detect minor changes. And gosh, go to a concert and things usually really change.

yes, I have. I saw him last year at the Hollywood Bowl. It was awsome. Even got to meet him in person and get his John Hankock.

Scott

np Minus Man