They Must Be Destroyed On Sight!
TV & Film
The Atomic age is upon Blood on the Tracks this month as all sorts of strange radiation-born monsters are invading the perfect utopia that was the 1950s *cough-cough*. Anyway, it was a great decade to be a sci-fi and horror fan, and it was a decade that produced a lot of great film scores. Lee curates a playlist that reflects some of the best examples of this fact, in his opinion.
--Main Title from "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) --David Buttolph
--Main Title & Fury of Godzilla from "Godzilla" (1954) --Akira Ifukube
--Blasted Arachnid from "Tarantula" (1955) --Henry Mancini & Herman Stein
--Suite from "Beginning of the End" (1957) --Albert Glasser
--Orchestral Suite 8 from "The Amazing Colossal Man" (1957) --Albert Glasser
--Main Title from "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957) --Ronald Stein
--Homura Club - Background Music #1 from "The H-Man" (1958) --Masaru Satoh
--Main Titles & End Titles from "Fiend Without a Face" (1958) --Buxton Orr
--Suite from "The Atomic Submarine" (1959) -- Alexander Laszlo
Opening and closing music: Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) from "Sorcerer" by Tangerine Dream, and My Name & The Departure from "Shanghai Joe" by Bruno Nicolai.
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