govern@houxf.UUCP (06/14/83)
A friend of mine has a trivia question that she hasn't found an answer to in several years. What was the music at the beginning of My Favorite Martian (Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, late 60's)? If it has words, what are they; if not, does the music have a name, or can you represent the tune in some convenient notation? Thanks; Bill Stewart
ix710@sdccsu3.UUCP (David Whiteman) (06/21/83)
A few years ago I took a history of Jazz class at UCLA taught by a professor Tanner. One day he told us about the theme song for My Favorite Martian. He said that he was one of the musicians who recorded that song; he played an electronic device that he designed that made an eerie space-like effect at the begining of the song. During the recording session Tanner had to be placed in a separate room from the rest of the musicians so the engineers could balance the instruments properly. Since Tanner was in a separate sound proof room they had trouble keeping in synch, so the conductor set up a close circuit TV so Tanner could see the conductor on one monitor, and the conductor could see Tanner on another moniter. Well during the next take Tanner was playing too slow, so the conductor thinking that the monitor showing Tanner was Tanner, faced the moniter thus turning away from the camera making it impossible for Tanner to see him. Anyway the song does not have any words and is untitled. David Whiteman UCSD