UFO TV Series Main Theme (Identified) Cover Version
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This is my version of the CLASSIC Barry Gray opening theme for UFO more commonly known as identified; Barry was an absolute genius and is well known for many of his iconic them songs. This has to be the one that got me most exited as a kid, these were some killer opening credits for UFO, that still (IMHO) stand up today.
For my part, all the music was done in Cubase, with the exception of the IBM Selectric typewriter I got from TH-cam, really adds that finishing touch! I'm a huge fan of Barry Gray and I just wanted to pay homage in the only way I can!
64! Watched every show with awe. Someone stole the future we had hoped for as children. Keep’em coming. Thanks
My favorite of the Gray themes, and you've done a really great job of capturing the spirit and snap of the original. Really well done! 😀
Barry Gray was incapable of writing a bad tune- this one is a banger 🙂
You’re not wrong!!!
He was indeed a very talented composer and arranger!
Loved the series. I used to work in a pizza parlour in the late 70's and Ed Bishop was a regular customer. I thought skydiver was so cool and gabrielle drake was gorgeous. I'm now 66 and have not changed my views.
One of my all-time favs. They showed it at some ridiculous time in the afternoon in New Zealand when I was young in the early seventies. I'd have to race home from school to try and catch it... at that time I didn't fully understand daylight saving, and I thought the time changing would mean I'd get to see it in plenty of time!!
I love how, just in case there was any doubt/ confusion, the uniforms for the underwater crew were nets. Brilliant.
Basically they were string vests with sleeves, funny how you could see the men's nips, but not the womens!
I remember this show well from I was a boy, loved it in the early 70's! Cool music, space age style, and lots of action! I saw it on my folks 1st color TV, a 19" Zenith portable. The prequil to another of my old favs, Space: 1999.
The way they flashed 1980, and showed those now very dated, looking old computers w the tape reels is funny today.
What seemed futuristic and exciting to us in the 70's is now nostalgic, heck even the 1990's are now, as we approach 2024. Thanks for posting, live long and prosper, as that guy from another cool show I won't mention here would say! 🖖
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I loved this as a kid.
Idk why but i much prefer this series than to modern sci-fi ones, maybe cuz this was truly revolutionary especially in its very serious approach to sci-fi, especially on tv, which is now way over-saturated. That score is phenomenal too, very unique
I am 62 . i remember when i was a child . Year 1971 for the first time from italian television. but its the same adrenaline for me at today.... maybe i am not so normal ..or i do not want be old...
I’m 54 and I remember this show vividly, so many elements that are permanently engrained on memory - glad you enjoyed it 👽
66 now, loved this show then.
I get the same. I’m 60.
same situation i am 63
Just turned 60. Gabriel Drake and her outfits did something to me as a young impressionable lad.
I’m 62 and still remember this series like I watched it yesterday. I’ve always been a fan and always will be. One day they will do a remake but I don’t think it’s going to be anything like the original. Does anyone know if Strakers car still exists? Such a beautiful car ❤
Who would have thought purple hair would look so good!
オリジナルは想像力を刺激する構成だけど
日本では矢島正明氏のナレーションによる装備や施設を解説して設定の巧みさに唸らせる構成でした。
Fantastic work my man!😁
@@MoltoMantovani thank you so much, I had to listen to the stuff on your channel as well; great brass work, wonderful orchestration and voicing!
Maybe we should collaborate on something 😊
@@FUBAR1966 Indeed, I would certainly be up for that George... keep me posted!!!
My farther sat down and watched this series with me in the 70s I'm 56 now.I know why he did and it wasn't the purple hair.Those were the days when life was more simple and magical.
Fond memories watching the show with my late dad, he loved it, the camp and the futuristic all rolled together. He laughed his head off at the ridiculous idea not that aliens might invade breathing green liquid, or that fighter control might be dolly birds with purple hair, but that telephones could exist without wires.
There wasn’t an awful lot of science fiction back in the day, it did feel pretty futuristic for the time!
Thanks for the feedback on the music, there is an alternative take of the main theme which does have a real swing groove to it; Barry Gray is a British institution and incredibly underrated and my opinion.
Thanks for the feedback!
That old typewriter type printer brings back memories.
Just an IBM Selectric keyboard typewriter. The wild thing about this show is that it's supposed to take place only a decade into the future. The problem is that the technology couldn't have advanced that quickly.
Moonbases like that 10 years after we just set foot on it? At least the computer and communications tech was about where it would be in the early 1980's when tapes were still being used to store data. The moonbases aren't even possible 50 years later, let alone 10.
And people aren't going to dress like that only 10 years ahead either. At least Roddenberry realized that space travel like on "Star Trek" was more likely centuries ahead, not decades. Although technology leapfrogged both it and TNG in a number of ways.
I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is .....MORE SNARE!!!!
It's a pity this show never got a second series as it was way ahead of its time.
Actually, Space: 1999 was initially intended to be the second series of UFO
however, Lew Grade cancelled UFO because of declining ratings in the US
It was a show of its time. The last of the 60s MOD shows with MOD music and clothes.
It's a uniform BABY!
by the mid 70s TV networks had crumpled up the bright shiny future and we're telling audiences to just survive a dark age crisis.
Are there plans for people to wear purple wigs on the moon ?
@@HepCatJack I don't know about NASA, but I'm sure SpaceX would welcome the entire fashion-forward approach of UFO.
@@vibrolax Even Gerry Anderson would not dress his actors in those stupid SpaceX outfits
子供頃観てました。
今観てみも素晴らしい!
GOOD!👍
I remember this series very well from the very early 70s
Esperaba con ansias que llegara 1980 para ver si ya venían los UFO...jajaja!
No llegaron..pero es lo maravilloso de la ciencia ficción.....te permite soñar.
I'm 66 now, and I STILL get a rush from the moonbase girls. They were ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!! THOSE are some HOT WOMEN!!
I love it; high-tech in space with an IBM Selectric typewriter LOL
One of the best shows ever made. Nice alternative version of the theme.
I do not recall ever seeing this show but I wish I had...
This used to come on in the 1970's on UHF channel 27 I think.
I missed them too! Only had 3 channels to choose from in those days. I have seen a lot of these shows on TH-cam. I think this was made in England.
You absolutely should
Moon Base - YESSSSS!!!! :P
That scene removing the contact lens always freaked me out as a kid
Same!
Ayshea - gorgeous
Ahh, the cheesy (reproduced) sounds of the Hammond electric organ.
Great memories.
Lieutenant Gay Ellis ❤️, I grew up in love with her 🥰
Let's not forget COL Virgina Lake, a computer genius and a real "babe" to my 11-year-old self. An amazing woman who is also Sherlock-Holmes' mum in real life (Benedict Cumberbatch).
@@slimjimnyc270 100%
The actress who played Col. Lake turned out to be Benedict Cumberbatch's mother in real life.
Secret Location...Beneath Film Studio...how convenient for the producers :-)
Muy buen Arreglo!,fenomenal!!.
I love the women on Moonbase oh, I wouldn't have a problem going there if I knew they were there
Don't gawk.
It's a uniform.... BABY!
日本版はここに俳優の矢島正明氏のカッコ良いナレーションが重なります。世界の諸君一聴あれ。
Groovy Man!
Cool...when 1980 was "the future."
Groovy, man.
Love that theme tune. But watching the video shows how badly they got the predictions of technology in 1980! Is that machine called a "tele typer"? Which I think is a fax machine before fax machines where invented.
A great arrangement but this is an example of why actual instruments sound better than recreation of then with a digital replica. Sounds so tinny and lacking . Thanks for doing it as the organ part sounds fantastic .
I realise it’s still not a patch on the original, but it was a pleasure to produce, thank you so much for the kind words ❤️
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Way ahead of its time. Do you think this is where the Xcom games were based?
Loved this when I was 11
Wonder what happens if the interceptors miss🤔🤔🤔
A great theme from;Ufo,here!No,I don’t think it’ll(ufo)will ever be re-made?I think,it was too expensive to do this,today?So…..I’ll stick with the original film!
Ufo hosted some of the most beautidul ladiesto be seen on tv in those days gabrielle drake.ayshabroughand loads morethwy were veriyable godesseswith their silver catsuitsand😅urple wigstheymay be gone but never forgotten!
Rockin'! \m/
再放送したら五輪よりも視聴率が上かも知れない❤
この時代のセンスが好きなんだよなぁ〜。
I remember a different tune when I was a kid. It was more of a grind.
Perhaps its another example of the Mandela Effect?
An X-Com Enemy unknown mod in this style would be nice : )
I heard this was what inspired XCOM to begin with
Great cover
I can't remember this show at all. Maybe it predated me by a few years. I though I know every sci fi movie / show produced out there.
It wasn't widely distributed in the United States, so it got shown on a lot of UHF channels and at 1:00 in the morning on some local channels. It was bigger in the UK. Notably it was produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson who also later did the more well known in the US _Space: 1999._ They also did an interesting but rather slow moving movie called _Journey to the Far Side of the Sun._ (All those whacky fashions were designed by Sylvia Anderson.)
Of course the couple got their start doing the various "Super Marionation" kids shows of the 1960's: _Thunderbirds!_ and _Captain Scarlet and the Mysterions_ and the like.
@@tarmaque Not so. I remember seeing it many times. Can't remember what channels it was on, but it was not the major networks. I lived in the NYC area, so maybe it was shown more there and LA/Chicago etc. Much like Monte Python which was on PBS. But I used to watch this when I came home from school, and I'm guessing it was very close to when it was first run. Just like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Fireball XL-5.
It was on Channel 11 WPIX in NYC.
@@tarmaque
Not sure about a 1 AM in the morning idea? I remember this coming on on a Saturday Afternoon somewhere after Creature Double Feature & on Massachusetts UHF channel 27 before that ended up becoming 1 - the 1st ever "Cable" channel known as Preview - back then, you could unscramble it by doing things to the back of your TV & there was movies in it from about 8PM until sunrise.
2- I forgot who has it now, but it's under a Spanish "UNIVISION" thing, if you have it as part of your cable or satellite TV package, there's a ton of Soccer or, their version of football on it, plus a lot of Spanish soap operas like "Vanessa" & others.
At one time, Lucha Libre was on there & also, in Spanish, G.L.O.W. wrestling.
@@eventsotherthingswithchris9019 I think it was very variable depending on market. I remember it being on, but it was never on during prime time or kids viewing time. I have this strange memory of it being on at 6:00 am on Sunday mornings too, but we used to stay up late on Saturday nights to wait for my Grandfather to get home from work. He worked sing shift on weekends. (He actually worked rotating shifts, which suck.)
Oh my god i remember that old TV series. Especially the spinning alien ships. Was it British and aired of PBS?
It was VERY British, Gerry Anderson’s first live action series after Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet etc. This show just ticked so many boxes and remains a classic IMHO 👽🖖🏻
Nel 1980 avevamo una base sulla luna
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Has a lot of the flavor of Space 1999...except the moon never broke away....
I am 60 and that show was bad ass....
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I'm also 60 and I agree with you.
They got the purple hair right. I watched this. It was over my head.
最終回が知りたいです！
thank God we had Star wars
I loved this. Funny that they set it in the "future" of 1980. It was only made 11 years before that.
good
Sexy girls, a really sexy car which never got shown much and a great theme
OK, it was iffy, but you kept the Selectric so you got my vote. Well done.
kostüm diktirip sokakta Straker gibi gezeceğim.... garip garp bakanlara da "ne bakıyorsunuz, uzaylı mı var?" diyeceğim!
This show would actually be fertile soil for a remake, a far more thoughtful and reasoning remake.
You could have the aliens coming to harvest people like in the original show. There could be many different themes running simultaneously,
The work involved in defending against them.
Trying to reverse engineer their technology and using some of the new tech to fund SHADOW, there could be Elon types doing that and pretending to be the source of the knowledge.
Organisations trying to keep it all under cover from the public ( you could imply that all the crazies on the internet with their theories about the moon landings, the pyramid builders, and "Ancient Civilisations" were the work of SHADOW operatives to make sure the public dismisses any reports of the ACTUAL invasions )
And then you could have scientists trying to understand why they were BOTHERING to come all this distance to get stuff that could OBVIOUSLY be sourced in their own system . . . the whole idea that they could possibly get sufficient body parts to make it worth while is crazy and the scientists would insist that was so . . . then later on after they capture and interrogate an alien, they could find out the real reasons. One of which could be the alien equivalent of celebrities merely found it fashionable to have genuine human eyes, a fashion statement for beings so immeasurably rich that sending collectors across interstellar space is nothing to them.
You would have to do something about the TRAVEL time between our star and theirs, to make it at all take place in short enough time scales to be depict-able. I am thinking two different types of space travel, something that delivers their ships to the outskirts of our solar system without humanity ever detecting it, something so advanced or inexplicable that it becomes overwhelmingly important that we learn about it, but the vessels that we DO see being nothing too much more than our own, otherwise how do we deal with them?.
The thing that bothered me about this show is that they are using the moon as a base to intercept the UFO's before they reach Earth, but what if the UFO's approach while the moon is on the other side of the Earth? And why wouldn't the aliens always time their approach accordingly?
Apollo 10 holds the record for the fastest accelerated vehicle holding people. It got up to 39,897 KPH and it used a SKYSCRAPERS WEIGH OF FUEL TO DO IT, 2500 tonnes of fuel
It still took 4 days and 6 hours to go from the earth to the moon.
Space is WAY TOO BIG for any of the craft shown on that show to be any use at all.@@rperlberg
Cheesecake in Space!
Good job on your cover version... but I could have told just by ear that it's not the Barry Gray version... no one could generate as much bass from tiny speakers like he could!
Best version is by Cy Grant. Look out for it!
I’ll certainly check it out; everything is a pale imitation of Barry Gray IMHO
I did look up Cy Grant, he achieved many things, but he didn’t cover this song, what am I missing?
@@FUBAR1966 Yes he did, album called Children's Television Themes. Kirk, Spock, Dr Who, Rupert Bear etc on cover. I have two copies.
Very sorry, just checked it out. It was Cy Payne (not Grant) forgive my mistake! I mean how many Cy's do you know?
Thanks - Not bad at all.
That's such a good cover you hardly tell it's a cover.... teleprinter's a bit wonky though.
Shoot first ask questions later.
They were just luck or the aliens were tremendously stupid to always come from the same side the moon was......
Different sound from the original
Well spotted; I didn’t have access to an orchestra but I did my best ❤️
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Farfisa organ ? I like the IBM Selectric Solo !
Then the real '80s looked like this th-cam.com/video/sAh5emnRJ1M/w-d-xo.html ... and we realize that those meshed shirts at 0:50 were spot on!
But they need considerable more volume in their hair!
The TV theme that sold a thousand Vox Continentals.
NO LOVE
Incorrect speed ,try again
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I imported the original audio into Cubase to match the tempo precisely, that it how the audio syncs the video.
Thanks for your comment though :)
Unforgattable.
the cover is close but not quite right
It was certainly a challenge 😁
Makes me want to dance, snap my fingers, and smoke dope.
Me ricordo iera ste babete tetone e col casceto. Ms le iera aliene anche lore o iera mutanti o mudande
1970’s not 80’s
The series was filmed in 1970 (the beginning) but supposed to take place in "futuristic" 1980.
Kugelkopf und Tonbänder. Voll Retro.
1.980? Ajá ajum.
矢島正明のナレ
Looks like a cross between Thunderbirds and Space 1999
pretty much was!
hot chicks with purple wigs...
I came here for the sake of the thumbnail and am let down.
Moon snatch is far beyond earth clam. Just saying...
Futuristic gadgets, weapons and vehicles......and someone is still using a typewriter. Oh ok.
In 1980 people were using typewriter.
@@shawnmichaelduncan5951
And in our 1980....how many spacecrafts, underwater vessels and weapons that shoot lasers did you see like that in real life? They should've had verbal typing machines.
IBM also used that mechanism in a computer terminal, which was still pretty new when this show was made, so all that stuff we see "typed" in this intro could very well have been done by a computer.
How awfully English...
Horrible cover job.
Groovy tunes, hot chicks and very slow UFOs. What's there not to like?
Wow, I remember watching this as a kid, loved it.
Besides Hawaii Five O, I thought this also was one of those shows with the coolest theme. Besides liking the show when I was a kid I had a serious crush on the purple haired ladies at Moonbase Alpha.🤩
A good arrangement of the original music. Personally, I will stick with the original but good work nonetheless. 👍
I also like the original better.
I aspire to be as good as the original, Barry Gray and his Orchestra set the bar very high with all his music!
@@FUBAR1966 How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice, practice,.practice.
:-)
As I said in my original comment, good work. 👍 I am confident that you are on the right path.
I was 10 years old and loved this show. Now, I own the entire series on DVD. A classic. Great version of the intro.
Thank you for your kind words!