Neglected film, TV or music credits

[David Ryle]

In the universe that is members, former members and related film and sound projects for them, there must be some rather remote and obscure credentials that for whatever reason are not very well known.

I have found one that most USA fans are aware of but that European and UK fans may not be as familiar with...

On the popular TV series "Walker. Texas Ranger", (starring Chuck Norris) Chris Franke is credited as having made the theme song. If you give it a listen it is obviously Franke is good form.

I believe he also did some of the first few episode sound files, but that is based solely on my own observation and not to be found listed in any credit anywhere. The reason this is a topic of interest for me is that I used to sit at my Father-In-Law's house in the afternoon and watch re-runs of the series. He was an old cowboy and loved Chuck Norris. I'll readily admit it was ever so camp and hilarious, though not meaning to be of course. You can imagine my chagrin to see Franke's name appear every episode at the beginning. In the purely "western cowboy law officer meet's and beats the evil dudes" format, it was counter to the style I grew up with hearing Franke perform in Tangerine Dream. Great fun!

For more info see;


http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/pul ... tr_s2.html

and

http://www.filmreference.com/film/70/Ch ... ranke.html

-David Ryle

[bigmoog]

interesting


but Im off to go and search for that rare 1980 LP : The Tamgram

[Pertou]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_nNyhnx81A

Is this the CF theme tune David?

[David Ryle]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_nNyhnx81A

Is this the CF theme tune David?

Looks and sounds about right. The funny thing is that the theme changed over the course of a few years. I think the one most clips show on YouTube are from the theme that Chuck Norris did himself. It is really funny.
I remember a friend of mine told me about CF doing the theme song when Walker came out. I watched the first episode and remember seeing the name in the credits. I think there must have been a copyright problem or something that changed everything later. It is common knowledge that the series became more comical and later ended in the hall of fame of spoofs here in the US. The Conan O'Brian show used to do clips from it for laughs.

[24db]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_nNyhnx81A

Is this the CF theme tune David?

Looks and sounds about right. The funny thing is that the theme changed over the course of a few years. I think the one most clips show on YouTube are from the theme that Chuck Norris did himself. It is really funny.
I remember a friend of mine told me about CF doing the theme song when Walker came out. I watched the first episode and remember seeing the name in the credits. I think there must have been a copyright problem or something that changed everything later. It is common knowledge that the series became more comical and later ended in the hall of fame of spoofs here in the US. The Conan O'Brian show used to do clips from it for laughs.

it's quite interesting to see what Chris 'almost' worked on

[JD]

In the universe that is members, former members and related film and sound projects for them, there must be some rather remote and obscure credentials that for whatever reason are not very well known.

I have found one that most USA fans are aware of but that European and UK fans may not be as familiar with...

On the popular TV series "Walker. Texas Ranger", (starring Chuck Norris) Chris Franke is credited as having made the theme song. If you give it a listen it is obviously Franke is good form.

I believe he also did some of the first few episode sound files, but that is based solely on my own observation and not to be found listed in any credit anywhere. The reason this is a topic of interest for me is that I used to sit at my Father-In-Law's house in the afternoon and watch re-runs of the series. He was an old cowboy and loved Chuck Norris. I'll readily admit it was ever so camp and hilarious, though not meaning to be of course. You can imagine my chagrin to see Franke's name appear every episode at the beginning. In the purely "western cowboy law officer meet's and beats the evil dudes" format, it was counter to the style I grew up with hearing Franke perform in Tangerine Dream. Great fun!

For more info see;


http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/pul ... tr_s2.html

and

http://www.filmreference.com/film/70/Ch ... ranke.html

-David Ryle

I saw a re-run of this about Native Indians and he was using clips from Celestine Prophecy too.

[epsilon75]

was watching Red Nights on Saturday and there are some great pieces of TD music in this film,i remember there was a mention about 10 year ago of it being realeased,wonder what happened there

[timer]

was watching Red Nights on Saturday and there are some great pieces of TD music in this film,i remember there was a mention about 10 year ago of it being realeased,wonder what happened there

Probably kicking around in a studio in Hollywood

[epsilon75]

was watching Red Nights on Saturday and there are some great pieces of TD music in this film,i remember there was a mention about 10 year ago of it being realeased,wonder what happened there

Probably kicking around in a studio in Hollywood

Yes,Chris Franke,s

[timer]

Along with Streethawk !

[alipaul]

was watching Red Nights on Saturday and there are some great pieces of TD music in this film,i remember there was a mention about 10 year ago of it being realeased,wonder what happened there

was the quality Ok Col ?

[epsilon75]

was watching Red Nights on Saturday and there are some great pieces of TD music in this film,i remember there was a mention about 10 year ago of it being realeased,wonder what happened there

was the quality Ok Col ?

Top notch Darren,cant thank you enough mate Cheers