BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Doctor Who At The Bbc Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1969
Label ©  Bbc Music
Release Year  2005
Length  1:17:52
Genre  Electronic
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  Ref#  B-0154
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Doctor Who (Original Theme)   (Delia Derbyshire, Assisted By Dick Mills) 
       2:21  
      2.  
      		 "An Unearthly Child" (Pilot Episode): Tardis Exterior Hum And Door (Original)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:23  
      3.  
      		 "An Unearthly Child" (Pilot Episode): Entry Into The Tardis   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:41  
      4.  
      		 "An Unearthly Child" (Pilot Episode): Tardis: Original Takeoff Sequence   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:47  
      5.  
      		 Doctor Who (Original Titles Music)   (Delia Derbyshire, Assisted By Dick Mills) 
       2:09  
      6.  
      		 "An Unearthly Child" (Serial A): Tardis Takeoff   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:25  
      7.  
      		 "The Daleks" (Serial B): Skaro: Petrified Forest Atmosphere ("Thal Wind")   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:46  
      8.  
      		 "The Daleks" (Serial B): Tardis Computer   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:08  
      9.  
      		 "The Daleks" (Serial B): Dalek City Corridor   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:01  
      10.  
      		 "The Daleks" (Serial B): Dalek Control Room   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:26  
      11.  
      		 "The Daleks" (Serial B): Capsule Oscillation (Dalek Destructor Fuse/Bomb Countdown)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:19  
      12.  
      		 "The Edge Of Destruction" (Serial C): Explosion, Tardis Stops   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:10  
      13.  
      		 "The Keys Of Marinus" (Serial E): Sleeping Machine   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:52  
      14.  
      		 "The Sensorites" (Serial G): Sensorite Speech Background   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:11  
      15.  
      		 "The Chase" (Serial R): Dalek Spaceship Lands   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:17  
      16.  
      		 "The Chase" (Serial R): Tardis Lands   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:11  
      17.  
      		 "Galaxy Four" (Serial T): Chumbley (Constant Run)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:28  
      18.  
      		 "Galaxy Four" (Serial T): Chumbley At Rest   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:28  
      19.  
      		 "Galaxy Four" (Serial T): Chumbley Sends Message   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:07  
      20.  
      		 "Galaxy Four" (Serial T): Chumbley Dome (Rises/Falls/Rises/Falls)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:20  
      21.  
      		 "Galaxy Four" (Serial T): Chumbley Dies   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:11  
      22.  
      		 "The Dalek's Masterplan" (Serial V): Activity On Dalek Ship Control Panel   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:46  
      23.  
      		 "The Savages" (Serial Aa): Energy Escapes   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:23  
      24.  
      		 "The Tenth Planet" (Serial Dd): Machinery In Tardis Goes Wild (Regeneration)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:03  
      25.  
      		 "The Power Of The Daleks" (Serial Ee): Regeneration Runs Down   (Brian Hodgson And Dick Mills) 
       0:09  
      26.  
      		 "The Power Of The Daleks" (Serial Ee): The Doctor's Transitional Trauma   (Brian Hodgson And Dick Mills) 
       0:53  
      27.  
      		 "The Underwater Menace" (Serial Gg): The Fish People (Incidental Music)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:38  
      28.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Heartbeat Chase   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:57  
      29.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Chromophone Band   (Delia Derbyshire) 
       1:56  
      30.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Contoller Chimes   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:10  
      31.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Musak (From "Time In Advance")   (John Baker) 
       3:19  
      32.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Propaganda Sleep Machine   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:08  
      33.  
      		 "The Macra Terror" (Serial Jj): Doctor Who (New Opening Theme, 1967)   (Delia Derbyshire) 
       0:52  
      34.  
      		 "The Web Of Fear" (Serial Qq): Sting & Web (Cocooning Interior)/Cobweb Pulsates   (Brian Hodgson) 
       2:05  
      35.  
      		 "The Web Of Fear" (Serial Qq): 4 Stings   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:18  
      36.  
      		 "Fury From The Deep" (Serial Rr): Mr Oak And Mr Quill (Incidental Music)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:40  
      37.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Lead-In To Cyber Planner   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:14  
      38.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Cyber Planner Background   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:37  
      39.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Cybermen Stab & Music   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:32  
      40.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Rocket Stab   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:08  
      41.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Birth Of Cybermats   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:44  
      42.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Cybermats Attracted To Wheel   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:40  
      43.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Rocket In Space   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:49  
      44.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Interior Rocket (Suspense Music)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:55  
      45.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Servo Robot Music   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:28  
      46.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Wheel Stab   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:15  
      47.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Cosmos Atmosphere   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:08  
      48.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Alien Ship Music   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:00  
      49.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Jarvis In A Dream State   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:47  
      50.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): Floating Through Space   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:14  
      51.  
      		 "The Wheel In Space" (Serial Ss): 2 Stabs   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:13  
      52.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Tardis (New Landing)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:19  
      53.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Galaxy Atmosphere   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:04  
      54.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Tension Builder (A)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:45  
      55.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Tension Builder (B)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:40  
      56.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Tension Builder (D)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:07  
      57.  
      		 "The Dominators" (Serial Tt): Low Sting   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:11  
      58.  
      		 "The Mind Robber" (Serial Uu): Tardis: Extra Power Unit Plugged In   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:53  
      59.  
      		 "The Mind Robber" (Serial Uu): Zoe's Theme   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:20  
      60.  
      		 "The Mind Robber" (Serial Uu): White Void   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:17  
      61.  
      		 "The Invasion" (Serial Vv): Muzak (From "Time In Advance")   (John Baker) 
       2:48  
      62.  
      		 "The Invasion" (Serial Vv): Cyberman Brought To Life   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:14  
      63.  
      		 "The Invasion" (Serial Vv): Cyber Invasion   (Brian Hodgson) 
       2:14  
      64.  
      		 "The Krotons" (Serial Ww): The Learning Hall   (Brian Hodgson) 
       2:40  
      65.  
      		 "The Krotons" (Serial Ww): Entry Into The Machine   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:33  
      66.  
      		 "The Krotons" (Serial Ww): Sting   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:19  
      67.  
      		 "The Krotons" (Serial Ww): Machine And City Theme   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:49  
      68.  
      		 "The Krotons" (Serial Ww): Kroton Theme   (Brian Hodgson) 
       2:14  
      69.  
      		 "The Space Pirates" (Serial Yy): Tardis Land   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:27  
      70.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): Alien Control Centre   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:27  
      71.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): Time Zone Atmosphere   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:40  
      72.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): Dimensional Control (Sidrat Dimensions Contract)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:50  
      73.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): War Lord Arrival   (Brian Hodgson) 
       0:16  
      74.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): Silver Box (The Doctor Calls For Help)   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:03  
      75.  
      		 "The War Games" (Serial Zz): Time Lord Court Atmosphere   (Brian Hodgson) 
       1:18  
      76.  
      		 Doctor Who (Closing Titles)   (Delia Derbyshire) 
       0:42  
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      Music, Effects, Atmospheres and Ambiences from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
      Composed and Realised by Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Dudley Simpson and John Baker
      Compiled and produced for Compact Disc by Mark Ayres

      This is the first release in a new series featuring remastered Doctor Who music and effects from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This page presents expanded "virtual sleeve notes" for the recording, including a detailed tracklisting. \


      Programme Notes

      The CD comes with an illustrated booklet; an abridged version of the text is reproduced here.

      This first volume of music, effects and atmospheres from Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop covers the years 1963-1969.

      Some four months before the new Saturday teatime science fiction serial Doctor Who hit BBC Television on November 23, 1963, producer Verity Lambert approached composer Ron Grainer to provide the theme music. It was suggested he work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with whom he had previously collaborated on the television series Giants of Steam. Using basic tone generators and tape-cutting techniques, thw Workshop's Delia Derbyshire turned Grainer's manuscript into a timeless piece of work with a magically organic quality to it that belies the many hours of patient work it took to create.

      Please also see A History of the Doctor Who Theme.

      While Delia was working on the theme, Brian Hodgson was building the sound of the ether being ripped apart by a machine able to cross the barriers of space and time: the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space). The basis of this sound was created by torturing the strings of a retired upright piano with a front-door key, and treating the resulting groans. The initial take-off sequence as used in the untransmitted pilot episode (band 4) was later remade to form the sound as we now know it (band 6). This effect stayed pretty much the same throughout the period covered here, but numerous variations on the TARDIS landing (or "materialising") were tried. There is no doubt that the TARDIS has become as much a signature for the programme, and as instantly recognisable, as Grainer's theme music. In the 1970's this was recognised by it being registered as a piece of electronic music in its own right.

      Where used, the incidental music for the series at this time was taken either from "stock" or "library" music disks or, when budget would allow, written by freelance composers. The most prolific of the freelancers was Dudley Simpson. In the 1970's he would for a while collaborate exclusively with the Workshop to realise his scores, but the seeds for this were sown as early as 1967, with his music for The Underwater Menace.

      Brian Hodgson was responsible for the "sound design" of these early Doctor Who adventures. But, with music budgets tight, the sound effects were frequently much more than that. Brian's "Special Sounds" for stories such as The Web of Fear, The Wheel in Space, The Dominators, The Mind Robber and The Krotons are in effect the music score.

      Wherever possibly I have gone back to the original masters for these recordings. Of course, the techniques of the time relied on repeated tape copying for overdubs, so the masters are often very noisy - and digital reproduction does expose them to scrutiny they were never expected to receive.

      Listen on to Volume Two for the continuing story...

      Mark Ayres

      http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Ayres/DWRWS001.htm

      http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Ayres/DWTheme.htm#Original


      Absolutely incredible set here from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Mute, featuring theme music, sound effects, atmospheres and ambiences, including some incredibly rare material from Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer, Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Dudley Simpson and John Baker. Volume 1 focuses on the years 1963-1969 and comes with liner notes from Brian Hodgson and Mark Ayres. Amazing to think that this music was made without computers, samplers, synthesizers...to quote Brian Hodgson ?..just a few oscillators, crude filters, aged tape recorders, razor blades, miles of recording tape, an ancient microphone and a collection of noise producing old junk...?. Tracklisting in full : 1 Doctor Who (Original Theme) (2'21) "AN UNEARTHLY CHILD" (Pilot Episode) 2-4 Original TARDIS Effects (2'52) 5 Doctor Who (Original Titles Music) (2'09) "AN UNEARTHLY CHILD" 6 TARDIS Takeoff (1'23) 7-11 "THE DALEKS" (4'42) 12 "THE EDGE OF DESTRUCTION" (1'10) 13 "THE KEYS OF MARINUS" (0'52) 14 "THE SENSORITES" (1'10) 15-16 "THE CHASE" (0'28) 17-21 "GALAXY FOUR" (1'34) 22 "THE DALEKS' MASTERPLAN" (0'46) 23 "THE SAVAGES" (0'22) 24 "THE TENTH PLANET" (1'03) 25-26 "THE POWER OF THE DALEKS" (1'02) 27 "THE UNDERWATER MENACE" (0'37) 28-32 "THE MACRA TERROR" (8'32) 33 Doctor Who (New Opening Theme, 1967) (0'51) 34-35 "THE WEB OF FEAR" (2'23) 36 "FURY FROM THE DEEP" (0'39) 37-51 "THE WHEEL IN SPACE" (13'47) 52-57 "THE DOMINATORS" (4'06) 58-60 "THE MIND ROBBER" (4'29) 61-63 "THE INVASION" (6'15) 64-68 "THE KROTONS" (8'36) 69 "THE SPACE PIRATES" (0'25) 70-75 "THE WAR GAMES" (4'35) 76 Doctor Who (Closing Titles) (0'41). Amazing music.
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