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Friday, 8 November 2013

MAKING THE BEST OF A BADDIE JOB

Via this blog, I try to offer assistance to people presenting pantomimes, whether they are using one of my scripts or not. Also, whenever I send letter to a group that has decided to produce one of my pantos, I conclude the communication with… “If you require any further help or information, please do not hesitate to contact me.”

Well, someone took me up on that recently, and it was for a non-pantomime presentation as part of their company’s season. They asked if I knew where they could obtain the villain’s ident music that was played on the piano over silent films. It’s the one that goes… “Dah-dah-dah-dah-daaah-ra-ta-ta-ta.

I had a reference for it on – freesfx.co.uk – where it is listed as ‘Cartoon piano riff – sneaky sounding’, but it ends rather abruptly.

Then I remembered that I had it on an LP entitled, ‘Music from the Silent Films’, played by one Mike Napoli. When I found the dusty disc in a cupboard full of vinyl, I discovered there are no sleeve notes, and the record label simply lists the track as ‘The Villain Theme’. However (CUE FANFARE) a Google search, ‘Villain Theme’ brought up the website – soundandthefoley.com/2013/04/04/villains- theme  which solves the mystery.


Always glad to be of assistance, or as the French say… knobblyknees oblige.

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