THE PRISONER Ron Grainer theme.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2008
- Mystery surrounding the alternative end credits with the penny-farthing becoming the universe and the word "POP" is revealed.
Robert Dearberg hands over to Eric Mival as music editor and Ron Grainer is commissiomed to compose the theme. - บันเทิง
I read somewhere that one of the guitarists was the great session player Vic Flick. This theme is one of the best of all time IMO - along with The Avengers and I Claudius.
A great piece of music. Imagine how amazingly dynamic it would sound if re recorded (and played identically) on today’s equipment?
As always, Patrick was right with the theme
So Patrick McGoohan came up with some notes that they tried out for the opening theme....almost everyone that worked on the show said he could be difficult and demanding...yet it was an honor to work on the show. Sure sounds like SIX of ONE...Half a Dozen of the other! Must have been difficult for McGoohan to get others to understand exactly what he wanted...but the results were AWESOME!! Thanks for finding these interviews and sharing. It's amazing to know how complicated The Prisoner production actually was. No wonder Patrick McGoohan said that he worked his way through 3 nervous breakdowns !!!
very humbling I remember The Prisoner....Ron Grainer brilliant uderstated
The show was ahead of its time (and still is) and McGoohan had a concept that he might have found difficult to articulate due to it not being as contemporary as other tv shows in that era. Or, at least, the people he was trying to explain it to might've had difficulty grasping the concept because it wasn't contemporary. Even Doctor Who was pretty mainstream (especially by then) and didn't present anything conceptually difficult. I'm sure articulating concepts was difficult in other shows. The only other one that I know of was the making of the radio series of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - many actors had no idea what they were recording. Even pitching the show went through several iterations just to get the green light (it was something like a drama at one point so the executives would understand the concept). The Prisoner was almost dreamlike/nightmarish in its storytelling. That is, it's like something you would experience in a dream and couldn't really explain when you woke up. The Prisoner is not one of those shows to watch when you have a headache (for me, I also can't watch the movie Brazil when I have a headache/migraine - it just makes me feel so much worse). So, I can understand people working on the show thinking it was an extremely difficult process - they were individually working on separate elements that they might not be able to visualise as a coherent whole. But, when they saw the end product with all elements finally integrated (that was originally solely in McGoohan's imagination), it was something they were immensely proud.
Great hearing the backgrounds for legends like this!
It is funny how the earth is seen in films.
During this time and before, it is shown like a globe school children would have.
Note the original Star Trek and other sci-fi shows.
Almost immediately after the Moon shots and photos of Earth, people became accustomed to the reality of the blue and white marble look with The recognizable land masses/oceans obliterated by swirls of clouds. By 1970, no outer space/sci-fi show features the "kid's" globe version.
Thanks for finding this.
The best theme tune ever . " Where am I ? "
What a great shame the three (tidied-up) versions of themes including the Wilfred Josephs and Bob Farnon theme have never, it seems, been released.
I really wish we could get the track alone playing in the background around 2:50 - definitely sounds like it needs the stops pulled out, but would have made some interesting incidental music or just easier listening!
McGoohan had unwittingly remembered 'Vocalise' by Rachmaninoff.
Or the second movement of "Sheherazade" by Rimsky- Korsakov.
@@egon4593 Yes, I'd agree it's very similar. Regarding "Vocalise" … I'm not hearing it, they're not _quite_ the same notes, not similar enough IMHO.
@@caddelworth If he unwittingly 'remembered' it he did a very poor job.
I've just uploaded the entire track. It's called "The Age of Elegance". Just type in "The Prisoner Original Theme Tune" or click on my link. Enjoy!
Wow, this is fascinating material, thank you very much for posting it!
As above. Well done for finding it as well! But where on Earth DID you find it!
So let's get that straight.
Hang on! Isn't the world rotating in the wrong direction in the rejected end credits? Perhaps the whole thing was set in an alternate universe...
Good spot
@funkmasterjee During the penultimate episode "once upon a time" #6 explains POP as "protect other people"
Ron Grainer was. All pm added was. Can you pump that up.
POP - Protect Our People...
Perhaps it's an "extra" in a DVD set of the series.
the theme was Ron Grainer's work full stop
Exactly.
Cheers!
Again. Clear. Pm was an actor and not a musical composer. That's why composers. And music editors are there.
Pm did not come up with any notes.
Ah yes,
good 'ol "Pat."
Knew him well. Him and Larry.
Larry Olivier
You know, good guy.
While this is certainly plausible - too bad Grainer was never asked point blank (Grainer died so young of course, unfortunately) "did McGoohan in fact come up with the main theme notes?"
I think the oddest part about the "pop" text is that it comes up from Africa in particular.
AgIn all pm asked was can you pump that up. Pm. Was an actor. Not a musical composer.