A COLLECTION of work from composer, bandleader and conductor Robert Earley (born Robert Sharples) - Themes for TV Drama: The Music of Robert Earley - is to be released on 10” vinyl and limited to just 1,000 copies. It will be released on 21 December 2015 exclusively through networkonair.com for £25, and is available to pre-buy** now for £20. Terms and conditions apply.
Lancashire-born Robert Sharples is probably best remembered as the musical director of prototype TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, where he was frequently name checked on screen by host Hughie Green, but it was under the pseudonym Robert Earley that he provided memorable themes and incidental cues for a range of ITV drama series during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.
Themes for TV Drama brings together some of Earley's best-known compositions, ranging from the smokey, jazz-tinged Public Eye (perfectly encapsulating the down-at-heel milieu of investigator Frank Marker) to the brassy, urgent aggression of Special Branch.
Also available: THE NEVER before released original soundtrack for the popular ‘60s crime drama series The Baron, from legendary film and TV composer Edwin Astley (The Saint, Danger Man), is to be released as a 12” vinyl LP in gloss gatefold sleeve packaging and limited to just 1,000 copies. It will be released on 23 November 2015 exclusively through networkonair.com for £25, and is available to pre-buy** now for £20. Terms and conditions apply.
