Happy Fourth, everybody! But I stumbled across a Christmas movie, or more specifically a TV movie: The Gathering (1977), with music by John Barry. I can’t embed it, but it’s here on YouTube.
This was a curiosity to me because, back in the day when I was running the FSM label, of course I scoured the filmographies of my favorite composers to look for goodies to release. And it was odd to see a TV movie produced by Hanna-Barbera that was not a cartoon—and had music by Barry. It’s a Christmas story starring Ed Asner as a man reconciling with his family in the wake of a cancer diagnosis.
Kudos to this fan for recording his own piano version:
What a world where a TV movie could get a score by John Barry. Here’s a musical moment somebody loved enough to put on YouTube:
As I often tell my kids: the 1970s were a weird time!
That was a beautiful and captivating piece by composer John Barry . It so wonderfully complimented the story . I love it and the movie to this day .
it was odd to see a TV movie produced by Hanna-Barbera that was not a cartoon - "KISS And The Phantom Of The Park", "Hardcase", the Gerald Fried-scored "The Beasts Are on the Streets" "Shootout in a One Dog Town"..