Favourite Barry Gray Music

[Silent Bob]

One of the big contributions to the success of Gerry's shows was obviously Barry Grays music.
What are you favourites? My top ten are as follows:
1. Century 21 March
2. Stingray Opening Theme
3. Doppelganger Theme/Sleeping Astronauts
4. Joe 90 Closing Theme
5. Captain Scarlet Closing Theme(vocals version)
6. Thunderbirds Are Go (Zero-X Assembly squence)
7. March of the Giant Oyster
8. Zero-G (Fireball XL5)
9. Space 1999 Year 1 Main Theme
10.I Wish I Was a Spaceman (Fireball XL5)

[Picasso61]

My top ten:

1 I Wish I Was A Spaceman (Fireball XL5)
2 Captain Scarlet (The Spectrum version)
3 Thunderbirds March
4 Aqua Marina (end titles Stingray)
5 March Of The Oysters (Stingray/Thunderbirds)
6 The Secret Service theme
7 This Is The Twist (Fireball XL5)
8 Stingray opening theme
9 Doppelganger - sleeping astronauts
10 Two Gun Tex Of Texas (Four Feather Falls end titles)

[TonyB]

My goodness this could be quite a long list as there are so many, top of the pile for me would have to be the Thunderbirds March though.

[Dave Norris]

I don't really have a top 10 as I love the music he wrote for all the Anderson shows but I think my favourite Barry Gray music is all the music oth old and specially written for the 1981 Royal Film Performance.

Why?

Because I not only worked on the show but my friend Sir Sydney Samuelson who produced the show introduced me to my childhood hero who was very humble and signed my 'Space 1999' LP & during the afternoon rehearsals I felt like I was attending my own Barry Gray concert. So that's my Barry Gray story,I'm sure plenty of people have theirs but this was a day I have never forgotten since.

[Picasso61]

It was certainly a tough choice to make because as TonyB pointed out there's so much great music to choose from but that Don Spencer song is just first class even making it into the UK top 40 in March 1963.:)

[TonyB]

The Barry Gray Thundersbirds Are Go concert at the South Bank Centre in November 2008 was a real blast. I still have my fingers crossed that a DVD of the concert will eventually appear.

So much good music and the time just flew by, not a 100% as concerts go by any means, but a brilliant show non the less.

[Conrad Lefkon]

Here are the votes from the Mysteron constituency:

1. Thunderbirds Are Go – Film (Zero-X Title Theme)
2. Joe 90 (End Titles)
3. Stingray – Secret of the Giant Oyster (Incidental Music)
4. The Secret Service (Opening Titles)
5. Thunderbirds - The Man from MI5 (Incidental Music)
6. Four Feather Falls - Two Gun Tex Of Texas (End Titles)
7. Fireball XL5 - I Wish I Was a Spaceman (End Titles)
8. Thunderbirds – Trapped in The Sky (End Titles)
9. Thunderbird 6 - Film (Title Theme)
10. Doppelganger - Film (Title Theme)

The Doppelganger theme is a bit of a "curate's egg" (good in parts) but there are some uplifting moments.

[miger]

Here's mine:
1. Century 21 March
2. White As Snow
3. Blues Pacifica
4. San Martino
5. Fireflash Theme
6. March Of The Oysters
7. UFO Theme
8. Crossroads To Crime
9. Thunderbirds March
10. This Is The Twist

[j3pfilms]

1. White as Snow
2. I Wish I Was A Space Man
3. UFO Theme
4. Crossroads to Crime
5. It's the Twist!
6. I've Got Something To Shout About!
7. Easy Listening Radio Music (the stuff heard at in the opening scenes of 30 Minutes After Noon)
8. Thunderbirds March
9. March of the Oysters
10. Thunderbird 6 Titles

If I could pick more I easily could!

[Achilles Messenger]

1 Joe 90 End Titles
2 Thunderbirds Opening Titles (episode version)
3 White As Snow - commercial version
4 Blues Pacifica
5 Score to Loch Ness Monster
6 Thunderbirds Are Go (Zero-X Assembly squence)
7 Desert Symphony (from Attack On Cloudbase)
8 Dangerous Game (Piano version)
9 The Secret Service Opening Titles
10 Thunderbird 6 Opening credits

[Dougurasu]

Awesome :D

1. Thunderbirds March, pretty much any version, I guess.
2. Stingray Opening (preferably without the soundeffects)
3. Fireflash theme (all three incidental music versions)
4. White As Snow (the episode version, absolutely NOT the commercial one)
5. Might of Solarstar/The Voyage of Ocean Pioneer 1
6. Incidental music from "Emergency Marineville"
7. That unreleased Captain Scarlet march theme.
8. The final cue from "Desperate Intruder Suite"
9. The avalanche music from "End of the Road" (from the track "Drama on the South-East Asia Pass"
10. Skyship 1 theme (or opening to Thunderbird 6)

But I think I must've missed some. Honerable mention to the Sidewinder theme.

[Keryn]

1. Fireball XL5 theme song. Always was my favourite tune, always will be. I never tire of listening to it. Don Spencer’s version is the best (but that hasn’t stopped me collecting other recordings).
2. White as Snow tune from Captain Scarlet – the version heard in the episode and the faster version released by Fanderson originally on vinyl.
3. Fireball – alternate fast instrumental version by Barry Gray & his Spacemakers released in the US on ABC-Paramount record label.
4. Zero X – the version featured on the TV Themes from Captain Scarlet EP.
5. Joe 90 - end titles
6. Instrumental version of Fireball song heard at the end of Space City Special episode – still not on a CD?
7. This is the Twist from Fireball.
8. UFO - opening theme
9. Century 21 March
10. Aqua Marina

[cricket_99]

My fund of knowledge is nowhere as deep as just about anyone else's here, but I love the haunting Another Time Another Place suite. The UFO theme, the S99 series one theme, and the Thunderbirds March are all close seconds.