The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - 1960's TV Serial: 1997 CD Tracks and Credits

THE CD TRACKS LIST [2nd. version: 1997]

Opening titles. [0.25]
Main theme. [2.14]
Friday. [1.55]
Exploring the Island. [5.20] [new track]
Smugglers. [5.14] [new track]
Crusoe's youth remembered. [1.09]
The Englishman abroad. [1.36] [new track]
Away from home. [2.11]
Memories. [1.36] [new track]
Alone [part one]. [2.59] [new track]
Adrift. [2.11]
Palm trees [part one]. [5.20] [new track]
Solitude. [2.24]
The shelter. [1.56] [contains new material]
Scanning the horizon / Flashback - escapades in York. [1.28]
Cannibals. [2.29]
Crusoe alert. [4.20] [new track]
Wild goats. [2.22]
Palm Trees [part two]. [0.54]
Pirates. [3.42] [new track]
In search of rescue. [1.44]
A civilised man. [2.02]
Distant shores. [0.32]
Alone [part two]. [2.54]
Catching dinner. [1.47]
"Poor Robinson". [1.58] [contains new material]
Danger! [1.54]
Closing titles. [0.46]
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Suite. [6.58] [new track]

THE CD CREDITS

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Executive producer for Silva Screen Records Ltd: Reynold da Silva.
Expanded CD release supervised by David Stoner and James Fitzpatrick.
Digitally mastered and compiled by Mark Ayres, September 1997.
Music and stills published by Franco London Music.
Published 1964 Robert Mellin.
© 1990 Silva Screen Records Ltd.
Thanks are due to the following people who have helped in the preparartion of this album..
Robert Mellin, Dave Read, Mike Preston, Margaret Kirby, Andy Marriott, Maggy Kent, Mark Ayres and Tim Beddoes.

SLEEVE NOTES FOR THE 1997 EDITION.
by Mark Ayres, 2nd. September 1997.
The master tapes from which this CD has been compiled came from two sources. Composer Robert Mellin had two reels which he loaned to Silva Screen Records in 1990, and from which the original CD was mastered.
Earlier this year [1997] another four reels came to light at Franco London Films. To understand what these reels contained it is necessary to describe the production process. "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" was scored from a library of cues provided by the composers, with cues written for various moods and situations recut to suit the individual episodes. The music cues were recorded at various sessiuons, with safety copies made of the tapes - two of which found their way into Mr. mellin's possession.
From the original masters, copies were made and the copies edited to form play-in tapes of edited cues for individual episodes. Many passages of music were used more than once. When the edited reels were completed, further safety copies were made of the edits, and it is those safety reels that have now come to light; the previous masters are still lost.
In compiling this CD, I spent many hours listening to the tapes [over two hours of material] over and over again, in order to pick the best copy of each section of music, and to work out how the musidc was written before it had been edited. I then re-edited the tapes to reconsrtuct the original cues.
The source tapes are at least third generation, and more than thirty years old, nevertheless they were in very good condition. But technical resources in 1963 were not what they are now,m and there were many small electrical clicks and pops evident in the masters, some more irritating passages of continuous interference, and evidence of chewed tape on the masters being copied to the safeties!
To remaster the music, I manually removed most of the clicks and pops using Sound Designer software running on an Apple Mac Computer before re-compiling the master in Pro Tools using various software from Digidesign and Waves to denoise and re-equalise the music. The main criteria was to remove artifacts added after the recording of the original master but to leave the original sound intact. As a result you will occasionally hear some sofy clicks, minor distortion, and dropouts caused by worn tape, but these should not detract from the enjoyment of this wonderful music from a classic series.

Front page.
Introduction.
Daniel Defoe and the origins of Robinson Crusoe.
The UK TV series schedule.
The 1990 CD tracks list and credits.
The 1997 CD tracks list and credits.
The UK TV series credits.
Ordering CD's, contacts and addresses.
Research, letters and e-mails.
More Robinson Crusoe information.
Robert Hoffman today.
Picture Library.

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