http://home.comcast.net/~caseybuck/

Outstanding!

Thanks!

Wow!!!
Thanks for that! That puts our MIDI to shame, but that's a good thing!

Casey,
Thanks for your generosity in sharing these cues! It's especially nice to hear something from the second music package surface. Thanks again!

Thank you very much

Wonder how different the longer cue 19 is?

It's the 'Danger Price' cue! Awesome! Gotta love those trombones! (At least I think they're trombones...)

Casey, thanks for these great cues!

Josh

Many, many thanks for these!

I knew they used that cue somewhere.... now it rings a bell. :-)

I also think it was used at times to show "Race Game" prices as well...I can almost hear Johnny O. in the background rattling off the prizes - season tickets to all the L.A. sports teams...:)

Based on Mike Klauss' video of that DJ episode, here's a loose rendition of the 1972 main theme.

It's also used on Poker Game.

I think you're right. I remember it popping up on 'Race Game', too. And speaking of the season tickets, everytime they did that, I always thought it was the coolest thing. They always seemed to save time during the rattle for those tickets. The game didn't take as long as it usually does.

Maybe L.A. can get the Raiders or Rams to change their team name like the Angels did (The Los Angeles Raiders of Oakland and The Los Angeles Rams of St. Louis).

Josh

Huh. I hear "Big Banana", I think Master Key.

(And I just noticed that filtered posts show up in "Last 10 Posts". Double huh.)

Oh, and of course, thanks for posting those.

Indeed...I recall one ep where those season tix were offered in RG; the contestant was a youth counselor, and said he could use them w/his "kids".

BTW, they also offered the season tickets in 2 of TPiR's other 4-prize games, Danger Price and Take Two...dunno if Poker Game ever offered them.

Oh, and Casey, you da man! :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Impressed-By-The-Quality "Chuckie Baby")

Casey -

I have modified your links. Please see the post in Behind the Scenes. If you would like to set up a web page which contains links to these cues, feel free to post a link to your page here.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

You guys did a great job with your MIDIs, given the difficulty in making MIDIs which are faithful to the originals.

That's the regular Big Banana, not the one posted here.

Two awesome cues

I thank you

Heaven help me for traveling this road . . .

What do you mean by the "regular" Big Banana? My only reference point at the moment is the file on 80stvthemes.com. And that ain't it--the music behind the Master Key prize descriptions does that soft repeat at :45, just like the remix.

Now, if this is a remix of a similar (third) cut of Big Banana, with just some slight changes in instrumentation, I will happily concede the point, as I cannot hope to tell such apart from memory.

And my apologies to anyone who read all that.

Sorry guys, but I seem to have gotten caught in the crossfire of the POed theme traders. I have complied with the request of an email to remove the cues, at least temporarily. But I guess it's too late.

Funny, I didn't get in any other trouble with the other theme thread, but I guess this one meant more to the traders.

I'm not in a very good mood right now....

Chris stated in his Behind The Scenes post that the reasoning behind this decision had to do with the questionable legalities of swapping around commercial music. I would be very disappointed and surprised if that wasn't the actual reason, and that they knuckled under to the trade fiends.

(Let me emphasize that. VERY, VERY surprised.)

Unless they are Bob Israel, Edd Kalehoff or a representative of the MGP music publishing arm Keep Music, these "theme traders" can shove it squarely up their BLANKS, compliments of The Game Show Forum.

Last time I checked, "Big Banana" was not composed, published nor the copyright owned by Skippy the Theme Trader.

We are absolutely not knuckling under to -- in the words of my esteemed colleague -- "Skippy the Theme Trader". Our new policy is, in fact, a relatively minor adjustment just to keep the GSF out of it when the Skippys do their thing.

The fact that some Skippys think certain cues need to be embargoed, and that a guy like Casey is doing them a disservice by providing these cues to the masses (well, the dozens anyway) strikes me as amusing.

It'd strike me as frickin' hilarious, if it wasn't so often annoying. It's like they're handing out knighthoods.

That, and we were bribed by the Game Show Theme Hoarding Mafia.

(You mean you guys didn't get your checks? ;-)

If you think it's annoying to read the postings in question, try dealing with multiple emails and IMs from people demanding to have Casey and others reprimanded for giving out rare themes.

News flash, boys and girls: "he's violating copyright, please punish him because only I should be allowed to do that" is not a convincing argument.

Jesus.

That just flabbergasts me. Some people are really friggin' pinheads.

I once tried releasing themes as you all know when I had the GameShowConcert up and running. We all have a love so strong for this business that we generally like to share what we have. That was my intent when I ran that website. Nobody put a gun to my head and made me share anything. I did it because I knew you people would appreciate hearing it.

So with that said..... let me give you a different perspective on this. First off I am not involved in anyway between this exchange that Casey had where those links were pulled. As a matter of fact I sent off an e-mail to Casey thanking him for sharing those cues earlier today.

Now I am feeling that this isn't a case of "Skippy the theme trader" taking an attitude because a couple of cues were posted. I actually beieve this could be someone higher up the ladder. Casey posted those cues at Golden Road.net. I'm aware that people from the show visit there on occasion. Hell.... they probably visit here too. So perhaps someone with actual clout told Casey that it would be best not to post this stuff. I don't think Casey would have buckled under the pressure of the average Joe. Think about it. It had to be someone that was able to put a little fear in the guy for one reason or another. I guess the only way we will know the answer to that is if Casey tells us himself. If that is the case... then I can understand why the links were pulled.



John

You realize that ALL THREE moderators have already checked in several posts above you explaining what ACTUALLY DID happen, making your suppositions and maybes a complete and total waste of everyone's time, right?

(and before you try to LOL this one off, remember that just as ignorance is bliss, often bliss is a definite indicator of true ignorance.)

Good God.... Do you ever Lay off ANYBODY? My entire post stands as is. I didn't say anything in the least where you neded to add your two cents in that are worth two cents to much to begin with.

John

The problem, John, is that your "theory" doesn't stand on either foot, much less both of them.

At the end, you invited us to "think about it". I did, for precicely the 4.2 seconds it merited, I came to a conclusion, and I posted that opinion here. If you don't want opinions, John, you are in the wrong place.

I don't mind opinions. I just don't particularly care for the harsh way you present them. You come off as an A-Hole. Now that is my Opinion.


John

Amusingly enough, opinions and A-Holes share quite a few characteristics....

You simply could not have paid me a higher compliment. I thank you.

If the theme hoarders are behind this then they can all go to hell. Why not reveal who you really are and quit the cloak and dagger routine?

Besides, the cat is well out of the bag. Enough of us have these that they could easily be spread through Kazaa, WinMX or even through file transfer via AIM/MSN/etc.

Casey, thank you for these great files. Wonderful stuff to listen to. To the theme hoarders, thanks for nothing.

So does that mean you're just going to ignore the fact that it was proven wrong before you even posted it?

Mr. Lemon and Mr. Chartier: that's enough.

In the grossly improbable event that the Fremantle Music Police came down on poor Casey, I doubt he would have mentioned "POed theme traders" in his post. Let's give him that much credit.

No, I believe this credit goes to the cue whores that don't want anything getting out there, even if it is for the good of people who enjoy good quality cues. I, like many others, enjoy the quality of these cues. I don't give two flying f's anymore about trading. Hell, those of you who know me know if I've got something, I'll give it away. But there are the cue whores that don't want anything going anywhere.

That's why stuff like this happens. To all you who do this: Screw you!

And to those of you like Casey who do it for the good of the show: Thank you!

You know what: screw the hoarders. I'm bringing back the site (with 7 new TPiR cues). This time I'm not bringing it down unless a moderator asks me to.

http://home.comcast.net/~caseybuck/

Lemme be the first to give a deserved thanks - the truck/van cue is one of the newer cues (well...when you've been on for 30 years...) I always wanted to hear in the clear. It sure takes some interesting paths we don't hear on air. Thanks for that and all the other treasures!

-Jason

I second that...hoarders be damned, this is some damn good music that I've been hoping to hear in the clear for some time, and I'm grateful you've chosen to share it w/all of us!

Chuck Donegan (The Still-Impressed "Chuckie Baby")

Wow, these are some great cues, here. Thanks again, Casey :D

And to that, I say, "Amen, Brother Herbert!"

First off..thanks for the cues.

However....regarding the truck/van cue...is this the original version? I thought the on-air version had a stronger bass line than this version does...this one seems slightly more "airy".

Chartier: If Chris is an "a-hole"....what do you call your postings this month? The Dick Clark comment you made, IMO, was completely out of line.

Don't answer.

Thanks Casey. I had no idea where the 1972 jewlery cue was. I always heard the one from the 80tvthemes.com site, but that was neat.

I updated my music page with edits of two of the cues from Casey's page that I made on the fly.

Click here to download!

The truck/van edit you did was perfecto, but the original first four cue stays with those last pieces of music...that little bit of intro is never hit upon through to the end. Dunno if that made sense. It just loops the last 10 seconds or so and never samples from the first 5.

-Jason

That Truck/Van cue is Effen Awsome! It should be nominated for some kind of an award. Awsome Casey! Would love to hear more no matter who they come from.


John

Casey... let me be another one here thanking you for posting such great stuff.

That Big Banana remix is great. Someone else mentioned the trombones. Yup... that's what those are. I play one... and I love the sound of them in a tune like that.

Thanks!!

Awsome Casey. Let's have the names of the theme Horders that contacted you. Drop a few names and they'll leave you alone in the future.

Besides... those will most likely be the ones who have more music from the show.


John