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The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
Silva Screen, FILMCD 705
I normally avoid nostalgia like the plague, but just hearing the theme from
this classic TV serial brings back my youth with a rush, and I suddenly feel
the weight of my 47 odd years. Anyone who was a child in the mid 1960s will
probably remember this French-sourced TV serial - especially as Auntie Beeb
ran it every summer holiday. Based on the Daniel Defoe novel, the score was
composed by Robert Mellin and Gian-Piero Reverberi.
Considering that most 1960s TV shows used little music outside the main
themes, I was amazed to find over 75 minutes of music on this CD reissue (30
minutes of which had been only recently rediscovered. What we have here are
the original recordings (not re-recordings) of the music, and one must
congratulate Silva Screen's production team on both their detective work and
the massive clean-up that the tapes needed before they could be used. The
music surprisingly holds up very well away from the visual cues, some of it
is cod-baroque in style, but most is original and extremely listenable (it
also helped that the main theme was so damned insidiously catchy that you
end up whistling it everywhere!). Highly recommended for those nostalgic for
their youth.
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