music used in series 3

( Or if that ink is broken in the message try
http://tinyurl.com/3n253l ) Right click on the MP3 and "save link as"

Minus the dialog and frogs of course!

Bill.

—– Original Message —–
From: jacquelinevanhoorn
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:52 AM
Subject: [shiponedingroup] music used in series 3

I'm a new member here, and I kept myself busy these last days reading
all the previous messages…well not all…Think I was already very
well informed…but now even better !!! Something I would like to know
is about the music used in series 3 when James and Caroline are on a
small boat down the river Amazone with Baines (I think it is in 'Black
gold'). It's a beautiful melody and I can't find out what it is. I read
the messages from both Diana and Bill Murphy about other music, so I'm
hopefull !!!!!!!!!

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Bill.

—– Original Message —–
From: jacquelinevanhoorn
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: music used in series 3

No, this is not the music I meant…however I enjoyed this part too
(even with the frogs 🙂
I have to be more specific…mmmmm….there is this moment when
Baines is going to find a riverboat to go to Santarem. He is going to
collect the rubber seeds with his Indian friends. James and Caroline
are going to pay a visit to Ortega. The music starts when they are
actually on the boat down the Amazone. They are enjoying the trip,
Caroline points out some interesting things along the river to James
and the music is quite romantic…(at least I think so).

— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "Bill"
<william.whittaker1@…> wrote:
>
> Is this it?
> http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/shiponedingroup/files/episode%2035%
20music/
>
> ( Or if that ink is broken in the message try
> http://tinyurl.com/3n253l ) Right click on the MP3 and "save link
as"
>
> Minus the dialog and frogs of course!
>
> Bill.
>
>
>
> —– Original Message —–
> From: jacquelinevanhoorn
> To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:52 AM
> Subject: [shiponedingroup] music used in series 3
>
>
> I'm a new member here, and I kept myself busy these last days
reading
> all the previous messages…well not all…Think I was already
very
> well informed…but now even better !!! Something I would like to
know
> is about the music used in series 3 when James and Caroline are
on a
> small boat down the river Amazone with Baines (I think it is
in 'Black
> gold'). It's a beautiful melody and I can't find out what it is.
I read
> the messages from both Diana and Bill Murphy about other music,
so I'm
> hopefull !!!!!!!!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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The clip is on the site:
http://tinyurl.com/3n253l

If that helps.

Bill.

—– Original Message —–
From: William Murphy
To: shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:45 PM
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: music used in series 3

Hi, all –

A question for me if ever there was one! I'll dig out my discs of Series 3
and check this out this evening. Of course, the music adviser then was dear
Tony Isaac. I wonder how many of the group know anything about Tony, whose
passing was such a dreadful tragedy back in – when? – 1979. By then he had
moved on from Onedin Line to Warship and several other successful shows, and
was doing pretty well. Then his whole world collapsed in about a week. His
wife of six months left him, and – typical World of TV, I'm afraid – a
producer who had asked him to provide all the music for a new show (a very
big deal) was fired and replaced by someone else who brought his own
composer with him. Tony had just signed the papers on a big new house in the
country on the strength of this, and suddenly found himself about 50,000
pounds in the hole. I had the awful responsibility of telling producer
Geraint Morris that Tony had hanged himself soon after production started
on Series 7.

Years later, I had the similarly awful task of calling round old Onedin
friends to tell them that Gerald Blake had been found dead in his flat in
1991. I was calling Gerry one morning to arrange lunch with him when a
strange voice answered the phone; it was a coroner's assistant. Gerry had
been going to treat me to lunch to celebrate my engagement to my present
wife. For reasons too awful to describe here, there was no real funeral for
Gerry's many friends to attend, and I was still meeting people five years
later who had no idea that he had died. I still miss him horribly to this
day.

Anyway, watch this space for the music!

Bill Scanlan Murphy

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— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "backkers120" <g123666@…>
wrote:

>
>
> Bill Scanlan Murphy,
>
> Thanks for that interesting yet sad piece of information.
>
> Nice music grab too (Moderator) Bill.
>
> Evan…
> — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, William Murphy
> <lobsanghoskins@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, all –
> >
> > A question for me if ever there was one! I'll dig out my discs of
> Series 3 and check this out this evening. Of course, the music

adviser

> then was dear Tony Isaac. I wonder how many of the group know

anything

> about Tony, whose passing was such a dreadful tragedy back in –

when? –

> 1979. By then he had moved on from Onedin Line to Warship and

several

> other successful shows, and was doing pretty well. Then his whole

world

> collapsed in about a week. His wife of six months left him, and –
> typical World of TV, I'm afraid – a producer who had asked him to
> provide all the music for a new show (a very big deal) was fired and
> replaced by someone else who brought his own composer with him.

Tony had

> just signed the papers on a big new house in the country on the

strength

> of this, and suddenly found himself about 50,000 pounds in the

hole. I

> had the awful responsibility of telling producer Geraint Morris that
> Tony had hanged himself soon after production started
> > on Series 7.
> >
> > Years later, I had the similarly awful task of calling round old
> Onedin friends to tell them that Gerald Blake had been found dead

in his

> flat in 1991. I was calling Gerry one morning to arrange lunch with

him

> when a strange voice answered the phone; it was a coroner's

assistant.

> Gerry had been going to treat me to lunch to celebrate my

engagement to

> my present wife. For reasons too awful to describe here, there was

no

> real funeral for Gerry's many friends to attend, and I was still

meeting

> people five years later who had no idea that he had died. I still

miss

> him horribly to this day.
> >
> > Anyway, watch this space for the music!
> >
> > Bill Scanlan Murphy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

>Did they ask him to be the music advisor for the series 7 (and 8) as
>well before this happened ? (because you said he moved on to Warship
>and other shows).
>Did you work together for a while or did you have to take it all over
>after his death ?

 
No – Tony Isaac left the series after Season 5 (or possibly 4 – this is from memory). The Music Advisor for Season 6 was Grant Hossack, who left to work on a couple of West End shows; that's where I came in. I knew Tony well, though, because he was sort of related to my then wife – he was my wife's cousin's ex-husband. The aunt was actress April Walker, who may be known to some listers for her appearances on Fawlty Towers and a host of other comedy shows. British television is basically a smallish village – you're never more than two degrees of separation from anyone.
 
When I worked on the show, I was living in my home town, Glasgow, and commuting. While in London, I stayed with my in-laws, and passed Howard Lang's house on Parsifal Road every morning. There was a pyramid of sea-boots in the living room clearly visible from the street!

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