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meegle Oscar® Winner	So I've been watching THE BIONIC WOMAN and loving the music from it. I recently got a JOE HARNELL compilation and most of the music on it is pretty damn good......dated but GOOD. www.IMDB.com says that he wasnt the only contributer though. "Original music by Charles Albertine Robert Bryant (II) John Cacavas Richard Clements (I) Luchi De Jesus Jerry Fielding (also main title theme) Dick Halligan Joseph Harnell Michael Isaacson Dana Kaproff Jerry Powell Robert Price (III) Herbert D. Woods" WHERE IS A CD OF THE BIONIC MUSIC???? Even from THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN??? IMDB has that show listed as OLIVER NELSON doing the score. Am I in the minority here is digging this stuff? I'm sure most of u will dismiss this post as dealing with a "cheesy" show; so why bother? Yeah yeah its cheesy and a tad more for kids than I remember.....BUT HEY!!!! Anyone have music from these shows??? thanks all!!!
posted 10-04-2000 01:36 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	meegle, I remember great music in both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. I think it was Luchi De Jesus who did the memorable "Bigfoot" music from The 6, but it could have been JJ Johnson (reknowned jazz trombonist). Big tympani rhythms! And let's not forget Gil Melle's wild feature length episodes (Stu Phillips wrote the title song: "He's my maaan! Six Million Dollar Maaaan!") The Bionic Woman had a tremendous theme by Jerry Fielding, great, but just a little embarrassing if your friends catch you listening to it (that lilting, girly piano). Both main themes are on TVT's "In Living Color" CD, Volume 5. Didn't Bill Conti do the more recent one wher they were both a bit crinkly?
posted 10-04-2000 02:19 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	What Harnell collection do you have? I've only seen two up close. Fielding's BIONIC WOMAN theme is lovely, and quite a surprise from the composer of such dissonant classics as STRAW DOGS and THE MECHANIC. I'm not extremely familiar with the music for the various shows produced by Kenneth Johnson, except to notice that a lot of Harnell's motifs overlap from SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN to BIONIC WOMAN to STOP SUSAN WILLIAMS to INCREDIBLE HULK, and so on. All good stuff, to my ear! But I'm predisposed to like it, I grew up with it, after all ...
posted 10-04-2000 03:34 PM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	Its a 2-disc set with his pic on the front. fun stuff!!
posted 10-04-2000 06:23 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	"Steve Austin....a man barely alive...gentleman...we have the ability to rebuild him....we have the technology...the capability....to make the World's first BIONIC MAN (or words to that effect)....(Music Starts) Dum, dum dum dum dum...dum, dum, dum dum dum....da da da da....da da da da da da da da daaaaaaaa!!! Cor, that brings back happy childhood memories. I used to watch the BIONIC series back in the 70's as a kid and always loved the funky music in the shows. One big dissappointment was that he always ran in slow-motion!!! I always wanted to see the speeded up running that you saw briefly in the opening titles but the episodes were always ruined by the gimmick of the slo-mo....and the old trick of jumping off a wall backwards and running the film in reverse....ha ha!! Also, I remember Lee Majors in close up just before he made a jump (looking as thought he couldnt jump over a small stone) suddenly shoot upwards in super-slow-slo-mo-reverse-film-mode!! Just thought I'd have a bit of a trip down memory lane and express my thoughts!! Great show for kids though (of all ages) Gae NP Star Trek: the final frontier [Message edited by Gae on 10-05-2000]
posted 10-05-2000 02:44 PM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	LOL!!!!! In order to rationalize the ridiculousness of the show... They HAD to show it in SLO-MO cuz he was JUST TOO FAST for us to see him move man!!! My fave little thing they had the Un-BIONIC actors do was to turn really quickly as if TO THEM he was lightning fast; then they'd cut to him in SLO-MO. The irony to me is that you'd think they'd ALWAYS just speed up the film cuz it's cheaper. Filming at 48fps uses alot of film. But then u have the drawback of the Bionic Man looking like the Keystone Cops or those GREAT sequences in Benny Hill when he's chase some chick superfast along the English countryside. [Message edited by meegle on 10-05-2000]
posted 10-05-2000 03:07 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Hi, Meegle I didn't know that this 2 CD album exist! What label is it? Whats the name of the album? Where can I find it on the web? (Intrada?) Oh boy, I'm so exited about it! I use to watch the bionic team a lot when I was a kid. (I'm 38 but I'm still a kid anyway) Oscar Goldman!!!
posted 10-06-2000 11:17 AM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	"THE FILM MUSIC OF JOE HARNELL" Five Jays Records FJCD 001/002 Produced for the promotional Purposes of the Composer Not licensed for Public Sale!! Disc 1 United Artists logo Theme Cliffhangers TheBionicWoman TheIncredibleHulk TT 76:52 Disc 2 Alternate UA logo theme HotPursuit TheCurseOfDracula AlienNationTheSeries V for Victory TT: 75:06 Get it!!! Its great. Whisked me back to THE DAY!!!! Here are some links with info. http://www.tenctonp.freeserve.co.uk/guide/soundtrack.htm http://www.enqueue.com/v/collectibles.html
posted 10-06-2000 01:36 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	Thanks Meegle! I'll try to find it right away!
posted 10-06-2000 05:43 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	The only 2CD set that I'd find is JOE HARNELL-BEST OF COLLECTION (2 CD SET) Is this the same with other cover? The track listing is not listed. (Supercollector) P.S. This thread does not allow me to copy paste the lynk because is so big. [Message edited by Marcelo Ferreyra on 10-06-2000]
posted 10-06-2000 06:04 PM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	Different WAY different. That on looks like stuff he did before he worked for TV. I would just use eBay's "personal shopper" and type in Harnell. It will search for u up to 3 months and email u when something with him is posted.
posted 10-06-2000 06:49 PM PT (US)

ZapBrannigan Oscar® Winner	Hey, that promotional CD set is going to be awfully hard to get. And we'll be bidding against each other. Could somebody make mp3's of The Bionic Woman section available? Either Napster or X-Drive would do the trick. [Message edited by ZapBrannigan on 10-08-2000]
posted 10-07-2000 10:08 AM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	Ill see what i can do about the BIONIC WOMAN mp3's. Ill post here when Ill have them up. I have a super slow system so Xdrive would take about 3 weeks for me to upload 5 seconds. stay tuned
posted 10-07-2000 04:35 PM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	There are 3 tracks up on Napster right now. Im having trouble (OF COURSE) with the others. my name is meegle there as well.
posted 10-08-2000 05:46 PM PT (US)

ZapBrannigan Oscar® Winner	What times do you tend to be connected to Napter? I looked on Monday morning. Should we search on "Bionic Woman"? Thanks, Meegle!
posted 10-09-2000 08:35 AM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	The Bionic Woman - Joe Harnell Monday night from 6pm on (tentative).
posted 10-09-2000 04:03 PM PT (US)

ZapBrannigan Oscar® Winner	No luck so far. We'll hook up eventually, I hope. I'm just not often online at night. It'll keep.
posted 10-11-2000 06:22 PM PT (US)

Marcelo Ferreyra Oscar® Winner	I'd never tryed Napster, thought it was only rock groups around. I'm going to check right now!!!
posted 10-15-2000 02:03 PM PT (US)

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