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 ?
— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "samwebster2000"
<samwebster2000@…> wrote:
>
> Now i'm wondering what it is!Any body know yet? 🙂
>
> — 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]
> > >
> >
>