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Summary: A little treasure
Comment: OK, so what can you do with some 30 year old mono reel tapes, unedited tapes of the original
recording sessions?
Add to this four newly discovered reels of backups of the edited master
tapes, a lot of effort and computer trickery from Mark Ayres, and you have yourself a wonderful
document of youthful memories.
Seven years on from the original CD release, this new release
(FILMCD705 1997) has seen Mark Ayres add an extra 30 minutes of music to the original.
The music
of Robert Mellin and Gian-Piero Reverberi from 1963 hardly shows any signs of its low-tech source.
As good today as it was through that single television speaker all those years ago.
You can just
see those footprints in the sand!

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Summary: CHILDHOOD YEARS RE-LIVED WITH ROBINSON CRUSOE
Comment: Help! I can't stop playing this CD! It has rekindled so many childhood memories of being sat in
front of a black and white t.v. set circa 1972, watching Robinson Crusoe. But this music has stayed
with so many people years after the series was last shown, and that has to be a sign of just how
good it is in itself. The themes are simple, yet memorable, and skilfully handled in their varied
instrumental arrangements, they easily stand up to repeated listening. For example, the Main Theme
appears initially with a soaring string melody, but later appears for solo viola(?), evoking the
mood of Crusoe's fate. The same theme re-appears yet again, transformed by some rather up-beat
bongos or similar percussion, giving both a Pacific islands atmosphere and a slightly 60's feel to
the music. Overall it is very varied - some tracks sound like they could have strayed from a
Spaghetti Western score, but one set on a desert island in the early 18th century - sort of
Morricone meets Playford's English Dancing Master, and the pastiche baroque harpsichord numbers
representing Crusoe's youth are just classics of their type. One of many favourite tracks has to be
'Pirates', with its bustling melody, great harmonies and rhythms - there's more than a touch of
humour here. There's no denying the nostalgia value of this CD for us over-thirties, but this music
is better than that and deserves to be heard by a wider audience. Buy it!

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Summary: THE ULTIMATE DESERT ISLAND DISC
Comment: While all my mates from school were out getting sunburnt during the summer holidays, my best mate,
Dale, and me would be sat in a darkened room watching Whirlybirds, Champion The Wonderhorse, Belle
And Sebastian, Casey Jones, White Horses and best of all, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Imagine
my surprise and delight when this CD popped up in my Amazon music recommendations!
Even after all
this time (30-odd years!), it's amazing how many of these tunes are still fresh in my memory,
particularly "Opening Titles, "Friday", "Main Theme", "Adrift" and "The Shelter". Some of the slower
tracks, such as "Solitude", are full of emotion (especially the cello solos - astounding!).
You
could be forgiven for thinking that you were listening to a Morricone soundtrack at some points
(without a word of exaggeration) and it's worth remembering that this collection dates back to 1963,
before Morricone got into his stride, which makes you realise just how creative and original this
music really is.
Overall, this CD is full of clever, catchy, deceptively simple tunes that stick
in the memory for a very long time. It also has added significance for me because Dale died a few
days after his 18th birthday and I can't think of a better way to be reminded of him than with this
wonderful music.

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Summary: Haunting and so beautiful
Comment: For those of us who fondly remember the black and white tv series that was shown repeatedly during
the long school summer holidays of our youth this album is an essential.
The main theme will be
familiar to many, even those who have never seen the show as it has featured in tv adverts over the
years.It and several others are repeated in different versions throughout the cd and those tunes
really do get inside your head.
The orchestration is superb and there are some wonderful solos
that really tug at the heartstrings.
At over 70 minutes long the collection is also great value
for money.

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Summary: Marvellous memorable music from a superb TV series
Comment: I, like many others of my generation enjoyed watching the TV series during a school holiday when I
was younger. The music had always remained with me and as I grew older, spent many hours trying to
find out who wrote and recorded the music. It was via the internet on a discussion of other topics
that someone remarked on where I might find some sources. Needless to say, I bought the soundtrack
straight away (in fact I bought two) and then went on to buy the video set as well. The music
succeeds on several fronts. One, as a genuine soundtrack that superbly matches the film story, two
as taste of music and sound of the period and thirdly as part of the soundtrack to my younger years.
It is haunting, romantic, dramatic and many things more. I highly recommend it.

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