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While not technically the soundtrack just to The Return of the Saint, there is a collection of the greatest music from a number of ITC television series, The Music of ITC. There are 133 different tracks on 2 CD audio discs (158 mins), and beautifully illustrated booklet with liner sleeve notes. Disc 1 features Edwin Astley's music from the original Saint TV show, starring Roger Moore on tracks 23 to 31. The Edwin Astley songs have been on CD before; the real news is the songs from The Return of The Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy! Those have not been on CD before, and they appear on the second disc as tracks 45 through 52! Disc 1
1-6 Danger Man (half hour series)(Edwin Astley)
7-13 Danger Man (hour series)(Edwin Astley)
14-15 Gideon's Way (Edwin Astley)
16-22 The Baron (Edwin Astley)
23-31 The Saint (Edwin Astley)
32-37 Man In A Suitcase (Ron Grainer / Albert Elms)
38-44 The Prisoner (Ron Grainer / Albert Elms / Robert Farnon)
45-53 The Champions (Tony Hatch / Edwin Astley / Albert Elms)
54-61 Department S (Edwin Astley)
Disc 2
1-6 Randall & Hopkirk (Edwin Astley)
7-13 Strange Report (Roger Webb)
14-17 The Persuaders (John Barry / unknown)
18-25 Jason King (Laurie Johnstone)
26-33 The Protectors (Mitch Murray / John Cameron)
34-36 The Adventurer (John Barry / unknown)
37-44 The Zoo Gang (Paul McCartney / Ken Thorne)
45-52 Return Of The Saint (Brian Dee / G&M De Angelis)
45 - Main Title Theme by Brian Dee and Irving Martin
46 to 50 - various Incidental cues by Brian Dee and Irving Martin
51 - Taking It Easy (European Theme) by Guido and Maurizio de Angelis / performed by Oliver Onions
52 - Closing titles by Brian Dee and Irving Martin
So yes! To answer the most pressing issue of the day, the elusive European theme song
Taking It Easy by Oliver Onions is indeed included in the collection!
Labels: 2010, Amazon.com, CD, Edwin Astley, ITC, Oliver Onions, Return of The Saint, Soundtrack
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Happy birthday to Leslie Charteris today. He was born on May 12, 1907 so therefore would have been 103 this year! Cheers, and I'm sure we'll all be reading a Saint story tonight in his memory.Labels: 2010, Leslie Charteris
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Now open for business is The Saint Club’s online shop.
You can find it at www.lesliecharteris.com/shop and hopefully the site is fairly self-explanatory. You can pay via PayPal or simply via credit card if you don’t have a PayPal account. Or you can send us a cheque.
It is a small shop at the moment but will grow over the next few weeks as I sort everything out.
Any problems or queries please let us know!Labels: 2010, Ian Dickerson, The Saint Club
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