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Unforgettable Tunes

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

I have some songs stuck in my head for decades. Nowadays, you can immediately google something you casually find and quench the curiosity right away. We didnt have that kind of luxury.

The Lonely Man
Old TV series have very definite and distinctive soundtracks. Mostly they really came out with a bang in the opening title. If I am not mistaken, some today’s series omit the opening title completely. Anyway, the soundtrack that’s stuck in my head is the closing credits from The incredible Hulk series, a piano ballad, The Lonely Man. Hearing the piece with seeing Dr. Banner back on the road trying to hitch a ride is surely a difficult thing to forget.

Weather Forecast
Do you guys remember Dunia dalam Berita? I still remember waiting eagerly for the news from Seoul 88 just to find that the Olympic was over. The main attractions for me were sport news and weather forecast. I didnt really understand about sport, I just liked seeing the athletes giving their best to win. As for the weather forecast, I thought it was kinda cool graphic, showing towns around the world with pictures of cloud, sun and so on. That was probably the earliest geography lesson I got.

What does weather forecast have to do with this topic you might say. One thing I particularly remembered is they put some soothing memorable songs in the background. These songs were almost forgotten, until somewhere in the 90s, a Jackie Chan classic made me remember. I heard some songs in The Snake in The Eagle Shadow, a Jackie Chan’s movie. My interest on those long lost songs were back. About a year ago, I watched a movie, The Rain Man. I am not sure but I think one of its soundtrack (by Hans Zimmer) was also played in weather forecast.

The songs are Oxygène Part II and IV by Jean Michel Jarre and Magic Fly by Space. They’re all in the Jackie Chan’s movie but I dont know whether all of them were played back then in weather forecast (but I am kinda sure that Part IV was). I seems like TVRI used a lot of these French, ambient, trance, whatever music in their programs so every time I hear them, I get the feeling that I’ve heard them before (like Part II and Magic Fly).

That being said, the search is not over. I am still looking for this one song, the song that I most remember. It is definitely in the same genre.