The Twilight Zone Score Volume III

Side One
1. Marius Constant: Alternate Main Title Theme
2. Jerry Goldsmith: Back There
3. Leonard Rosenman: And When The Sky Was Opened
Side Two
1. Nathan Van Cleave: A World Of Difference
2. Bernard Herrmann: The Lonely
3. Marius Constant: Alternate End Title

[@michaelmorgan7893]

"Mr Chambers, Mr Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the title....... It's a cookbook!!"

[@user-kt4iu5wc3c]

This music is amazing- dripping with menace and dread. Along with the black and white medium, Serling's excellent writing and outstanding acting performances, the musical scores put this series amongst the greats.

[@scottmoore1614]

Back when TV shows had great orchestral scores!

[@paulbriggs3072]

You can hear some of his Fantastic Voyage elements in Leonard Roseman's "And When the Sky was Opened."

[@Sizorhandz]

these are some of the greatest scores of all time this series was so ahead of itself

[@whyyyyou]

0:00 1. Alternate Main Title Theme {Marius Constant}
0:47 2. Back There {Jerry Goldsmith}
13:48 3. And When The Sky Opened {Leonard Rosenman}
25:50 4. A World Of Difference {Nathan Van Cleave}
37:51 5. The Lonely {Bernard Herrmann}
49:07 6. Alternate Main Title {Marius Constant}

[@jennifer86010]

Emotionally speaking, Marius Constant's score is filled with fright, apprehension, fear, anticipation, stress, anxiety, panic and terror. Seriously, each few measures of this music describes a series of terrifying, scary and very upsetting emotions, with no comfort, sanity or peace on the horizon. This is a musical version of a nightmare inside an insane asylum with the lights off.

[@davemail]

Funny you should mention "with the lights off." The other night, I was alone in the house, and I played some of this music (Constant and Hermann) with only one light on. It was almost impossible to walk into the dark parts of the house. I grew up with the TZ in the 60s, and it's always creeped me out. Cheap thrills, I guess!

[@jennifer86010]

@@davemail The Twilight Zone was more than cheap thrills. I too grew up watching the entire series as a very young kid. I bought the DVD series, and I still can't watch certain episodes, even decades later. Serling wanted to
create a show that combined the elements of Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller stories, and Scary Movies. Mission accomplished !! Episodes also usually had an ending with a moral principle lesson attached.
But, for any young child with a vivid imagination, growing up in the 1960's, watching the Twilight Zone at night in a big, mostly dark house, it became a very frightening experience to walk from the TV set to your bedroom, and then wonder if a monster or space alien was under your bed, or hiding in the closet. Or, a weird person might come into your bedroom and steal your soul while you were sleeping?
Over the years, I learned to carefully evaluate movies and TV shows before I watch them, since I've discovered the for those of us who have vivid imaginations, putting anything disturbing into our heads will have a psychological residue of fear and apprehension, long after the movie is over.

[@sexobscura]

now that's what I call music

[@simonc3112]

I think this was probably the best soundtrack from all 5 seasons

[@camilelcoyne]

This is great! Thank you!
I'm so conditioned to expect/anticipate Mr. Serling's close-clipped voice overs at certain points, it's like hearing a ghost in a distant room- you keep expecting the sound to arrive, and then it doesn't.

[@jjytb]

Thanks for sharing...great to listen to classic vinyl here!

[@OREGINALDESIGNS]

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

[@soninoscardelletti2844]

Reading The Twilight Zone Companion. FANTASTIC! GOD BLESS

[@nzt4890]

René Garriguenc was one of the composers for this show, as well as Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, and Have Gun Will Travel. Etc.

[@corrioliseffect]

‘Back there’ by Gerry Goldsmith was later used in ‘Alligator’ from 1980! 😀 🐊

[@briannahoff8589]

And When the Sky Was Opened sounds so much like an Original Series Star Trek soundtrack, but I don't know why... Rosenman would go on to compose the Star Trek IV soundtrack in the 80s, but prior to that, I do not know of him having any influence in ST.

[@henryhomes2664]

good o'l America!

[@43nostromo]

How I miss Herrmann and Goldsmith. Some guy named Joel McNeely is running around unrestrained conducting his shitty interpretation of Herrmann. When searching for Herrmann's music, make certain you find the originals conducted by the maestro himself. Don't accept the McNeely cheap knock-off. It's insulting and embarrassing.

[@thorn262]

From all I've heard for the last 45-years or so, many conduct the music of Herrmann, but none other than Herrmann, himself, does it the justice it deserves.