One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Theme Song of the Week: Flash Gordon (1979 - 1980)
Wow...that theme music sounds so familiar yet I can't quite place it. I know it's intended to be a sort of Star Wars-type fanfare but I've heard that melody before!
It just came to me...the main theme for the Flash Gordon cartoon is the same theme as the Robert Redford movie "The Natural". Go to about the 2:25 minute mark to hear what I mean. Flash Gordon was on TV in 1979 and The Natural was 1984 and both had different composers but that fanfare is the same!!! https://youtu.be/1MQ4ZIBoEd4
Wow...that theme music sounds so familiar yet I can't quite place it. I know it's intended to be a sort of Star Wars-type fanfare but I've heard that melody before!
ReplyDeleteIt just came to me...the main theme for the Flash Gordon cartoon is the same theme as the Robert Redford movie "The Natural". Go to about the 2:25 minute mark to hear what I mean. Flash Gordon was on TV in 1979 and The Natural was 1984 and both had different composers but that fanfare is the same!!!
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/1MQ4ZIBoEd4