shivers13
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Posted on Aug 27 2015 10:50 AM
Like many kids who grew up in the 70's the Spiderman cartoon series from 1967 was a staple of after-school viewing. I was always struck by how damn cool the background music was and for years tried to track it down. I even lifted my own Mp3's from the old VHS tapes at one point and later Ran (kick the reverb) gave me some tracks he found after realizing we both dug this stuff!
I came to find a lot of the music was from the British KPM Music library and was composed by Syd Dale, Alan Hawkshaw, David Lindup and others. These cool jazzy, spy, twist and often fuzzed out themes also show up here and there in late 60's exploitation trailers, Monty Python and even the NFL highlights films that ran on Saturday morning in the 70's. Such cool stuff.
Now, by the magic of YouTube you can find all of them. Some one even made a compilation!
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 27 2015 11:04 AM
Here's some of the individual original tracks with the song titles and composers.
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revmike
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Posted on Aug 27 2015 01:35 PM
Great stuff. As a kid I just lover the tunes (still do). The animation was done in Canada on a shoe string by Krantz Films. Walloping Websnappers.
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websurfer
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Posted on Aug 28 2015 11:01 PM
You could never tell I'm a Marvel comics fan! Of course I dug the Spider-Man animated series, and even those earlier limited animation cartoons of the other characters, which were basically a series of still shots taken from the comic books. Remember those and the theme songs?
Anyway, I've been listening to the stock background music and it's some really cool, period crime jazz. It instantly reminded me of an album I found by a fictional band called "The Wedges Hang Ten". Musically similar to what you posted, with titles calculated to cash in on the surf craze. This had me wondering if it's also stock "library" music.
Anyway, fun post. Never would have guessed you could mine gold in those background tracks!
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kick_the_reverb
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 12:07 AM
Great post Norm, library music from the 60s and early 70s has some great tunes.
There's a Yahoo group dedicated to "Spidey Jazz", and not only they created collection CDs of the library material form seasons 2-3, but someone also lifted and spliced together the rare and unavailable Ray Ellis season 1 material.
KPM and other vintage library material deserves a whole separate thread. I grew up on the stuff watching Israeli Instructional TV as a kid, and it forever get embedded in my brain.
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 11:17 AM
Very cool. I would love to get that Ray Ellis stuff, Ran! It's really great too. But my absolute favorite is season 2 and 3 with the wild library music and animation helmed by the great RALPH BAKSHI. Bakshi's crazy watercolor backgrounds are too much. The wild camera angles, character designs and villains are really trippy. The whole thing is very psychedelic-era influenced, it seems. And the KPM library stuff, with all that wild fuzz guitar thrown in, definitely burned itself into my brain!
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kick_the_reverb
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 12:01 PM
Yeah I agree about the Psychedelic influence, I remember it was really striking as a kid. For a while that eclectic Spidey Jazz + other KPM tracks was all that was playing in my car.
I will dig out the Ray Ellis stuff and get that to you as well.
Edit: I see the beginning 35+ minutes of the first video you posted is the Ray Ellis stuff, very cool.
BTW - Mods and Rockers is a tune I was obsessed about for years, even asked here before joining Spidey Jazz. I love that tune, this how I was first exposed to it (ending credits):
https://youtu.be/_Ov6cOlJBR8?t=17m44s
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DannySnyder
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 06:27 PM
I too was hugely influenced by this music. If I had to choose, I prefer the season 1 stuff, it was more swingin', but I like it all. I even made a couple short demos for one of my early bands (1989), planning on eventually working up a large composition based on Spidey Jazz.
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kick_the_reverb
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 09:34 PM
Cool demos Danny!
Ran
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mom_surfing
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Posted on Aug 29 2015 10:30 PM
good stuff.......thanks for sharing
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Pappa_Surf
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 01:54 AM
Wow! I thought I was the only one who dug those Spidy tunes!! I've talked to friends etc. about the Spidy music and they just tilt their head to the side a bit and say, "Huh?".
I spent a great deal of time in the early years of the internet searching this music out to no avail. Right on Norm for posting this. I'm going to have to search out one of those comps Ran spoke of from that group.
And Danny, you nailed the vibe on those demos!
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 10:37 AM
Very cool!! Danny, that Spidey Jazz demo was awesome!!! May I suggest a Spidey Jazz tribute at the SG101 convention? That would blown my mind and I know others would dig it too.
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DannySnyder
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 10:39 AM
Can you swing a drumset Norman? I'd consider it... We'd have to get some horns though.
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 10:55 AM
There's some really jazzy drumming on those! I might not have the jazz chops to pull it off. Len Curiel is a jazz guy. I can talk to him about it. The horns might be tricky.
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DannySnyder
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 11:03 AM
Well upon thinking about it, it'll be hard to pull off for me too. It'd take a lot of practice, and some tight players and a lot of time. Right now my discretionary non-surf time is taken up with putting together a legit set of Chicha music with the Deadbeats.
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"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 11:24 AM
Yeah, I know what you mean! I've always wanted to do a Spidey Jazz tribute myself but I'm not a jazz guy at all. It would take a lot to get it together. It's amazing how tight, intricate and super groovy, in-the-pocket that stuff is. It's obviously seasoned session cats probably sight reading charts as well! Pretty mind-blowing!
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shivers13
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 11:27 AM
BTW, that Deadbeats clip is pretty impressive.
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kick_the_reverb
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Posted on Aug 30 2015 01:49 PM
Yes it would be awesome to play this type of music, but it's hard to find the musicians and time.
Ran
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Emilien03
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Posted on Sep 14 2015 01:45 PM
Cool!
One more reason why Spidey is better than Batman. 
Didn't grow up in the 70's, but I liked to watch this "old" cartoons
when I was a kid when they appeared on TV ... still do.
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DannySnyder
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Posted on Mar 11 2016 07:37 PM
Got a hold of the backing track to the Spiderman theme song, it's pretty badass....
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