The Creed Taylor Orchestra - Out of this World.

[TheRaivan354]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this!!! I've been wondering what it was forever, remembering it as if I heard it yesterday. Like one of the other posters said, I used to look forward to hearing that theme as much as seeing the movie, and the mood that it set was indispensable from the entire experience of enjoying horror and sci-fi movies as a kid. My quest is fulfilled!

[nickandmikec]

I wish somebody with a video of the opening sequence to Strange Tales of Science Fiction would upload it for all of us old 60s fans of the show, with the foggy castle and the swirling mists and then that disembodied voice that said, "Hello dere!" Genious stuff and so much fun in 1961-62 when we first watched this Los Angeles-based science fiction/horror weekend venue. Nick and Mike Campbell

[consalvi55]

@nickandmikec I'm right there with you, It was on KHJ-Channel 9. Would be interestied to know if there might be a tetevision archive at channel 9 (KCAL).

[nickandmikec]

@consalvi55

That would be great, but the PR Department, the last time I tried, was nothing like it used to be in the Sixties and Seventies when anyone could call them. If you happen to know someone there, give it a shot. I have some friends in TV in LA and maybe one of them may be able to help. One of them lives near us in San Luis Obispo, but she is very old now. She used to take care of the music library, too, at KCOP 13. Nose around and we will, too. Nick and Mike

[papazeb832]

dont need the 40 sec intro

[BilltheUnamused]

Just shared it on my facebook, I mentioned how as a very small child this music along with the imagery on screen would send me hiding behind the ottoman while I delighted in being scared, making my parents and grandparents a little agitated. The fonts used onscreen inspired me to draw them, and the grownups again were concerned that I liked writing in "bloody drippy letters". Even at an early age, I was into fonts and graphic design...and it made me learn to spell at age four!

[lazyriver2]

Strange Tales of Science Fiction must have run on Saturday afternoons in the golden days of sixties So-Cal. We hit LA burbs in '64, Pop being an accordion player who joined the thriving musician's union.Watch the spisode "The Lotus Eaters" from the series "I Spy." That's Dad playing the accordion in the Greek tavern scene where Robert Culp is drinking Ouzu, and Bill Cosby is getting peeved. Dad never takes his eyes off the hot Greek babe singing. Rock on, Daddy, RIP!

[yankeear]

Can't believe finally found this music, Thank you Huck. Yea I remember sitting in front of the Zenith and looking forward more to hearing the little tidbit of music more than the movie. 62' was the year, channel 9 KHJ. What a trip!

[StevenErnest]

Omg, I loved this as a kid! Knew it from its use as a "scary movie theme."

In the mid 90's I contacted a guy who was playing this on a local radio station, and he sent me a dupe of it -- and about a dozen other COVER VERSIONS that have been made through the years. I just came across a version by Herbie Hancock via Napster.

Thanks for posting this! ^_^

[ImaniHekima]

@StevenErnest I know the Herbie one :-) It's one of his earliest recordings, with Pepper Adams and Donald Byrd. I bought the album mistakenly believing it had Rockit type music on (the sleeve fooled me). I like that version, this one is beautiful, very haunting - it's one of those standards that isn't played enough.

[nickandmikec]

Remember Cinco 5, KTTV, Channel 5's Sunday Night Movie at eleven? That optimistic piece of music was performed by Franck Pourcel and was the instrumental version of Bacharach and David's, "Any Old Time Of The Day." Pourcel was France's Percy Faith. I love watching Cinco 5, just to watch the beginning and to listen to the music. Wish the introduction was available for sale. "High Flight" is on DVD.

[nickandmikec]

P.S. By the way, Huck...the album is being reissued and will be available for sale in record stores on a CD in April (the 20th). Pre-orders at Amazon and Best Buy available. Also, The Pslams, once aired and hosted by Raymond Burr, at sign off nightly in the 60s and early 70s will be available shortly at Family Theatre Productions. Remember the beginning with Burr sitting under the tree opening the book of psalms and then a five minute short followed? What was that piece of music at the start?

[nickandmikec]

Yes, the theme from Strange Tales of Science Fiction, from the 1960s. First heard it in 1962 when we were living in Sunland, California, and I would watch the show just to hear this piece of music and the disembodied host say, "Hello Dere!" Foggy titles, an errie image of a castle in the background, and this wonderful music highlighted the experience. Good old Los Angeles...once upon a time. Album was commisioned by Forrest Ackerman, editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland.

[Sang1957]

@nickandmikec That is exactly as I remember it! I found "Panci" & "Shock" on a single CD set some years ago, which ended a long search (40+ years) by myself and a friend who just remembered part of the theme. Always takes me back to those days.

[pjubagoni]

One of the greatest

[judahjob]

Pure magic.

[mustikuarium]

great! was sampled by Tipsy for 'Space Golf'