Victory - Homicide TV Series Theme

[@o8thman812]

Recalling this brilliant theme music with a smile & almost a tear...

[@Invictus357]

I don’t think there is an Australian in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s or even their 90s, who wouldn’t know this music. One of the most iconic pieces of music in Australian television history.

[@tripsadelica]

Reichert was a gifted composer who only published a handful of works. This theme, used brilliantly in the Australian series "Homicide," is truly excellent but is best heard as it is here, in its entirety. If you think of "victory" as in victory in WW2 a whole new set of mental images is conjured. I thank the uploader so much. I have been looking for the original recording for years.

[@brianambrosemcmahon8531]

The Golden era of television productions .

[@martinhayward4466]

Loved the Aussie cop shows growing up in the 60's & 70's. Golden days.

[@thehehrarchive1556]

Indeed they were Martin, great days👍🇦🇺

[@bloggaloggs]

We have the vision and persistence of Hector Crawford to thank.

[@Deliberateyawn001]

This piece of music was used in the sound track to a Kubrick documentary 2001 a look behind the future , thanks for uploading and providing the composer's name .

[@RichardFelstead1949]

I was "Homicide" music editor 1967-1968.

[@davidmaddison2628]

A brilliant piece of music. Thanks for posting.

[@dennispetrovic8466]

Loved all them shows. Thats why I never passed my exams. Always glued to the TV. Apparantly, there was an episode in 'Homicide' where the continuity failed. There was a car chase where the homicide cops were after some crims in a speeding scene. The cops came to a corner in a cop car and when they came round the corner they were in different cop car.

[@justis9244]

A very stirring piece of music takes me straight back to when I was a boy watching Homicide. Makes my hair stand on end for some reason, I believe this is the mark of a great musical composition and was something Glen Miller looked for in his works. The feelings it gives me is Victory and Foreboding all rolled into one .

[@Steve-cs8nd]

With Respect Glenn Miller did not have a hair on this man as a serious composer. This is Sonata form with full symphonic Orchestral Choirs. Glenn’s music had merit but was a popular genre that relied on four note close brass arrangement with call and reply but not much real counterpoint. If you heard this live you would cry a full symphonic wind ensemble blowing flat out something very moving. The Orchestration is in this sublime and exceptionally individual. Now if you had said Copland or Barber I’d agreed whole heartedly, but Swing and 20 century Symphonic Art composition are very different. The closest Glenn came to Strings was one Double bass played pizzicato. No horns double reeds, no Tympani's, but as it’s an opinion he may of aspired as you say, but evidently settled for a popular idiom.

[@justis9244]

@@Steve-cs8nd I didn't compare Glen Miller to James Reichert I referred to the effect pieces composed by both have on the listener. It's the emotional connection the average punter is looking for in music, most don't know or care about the internal workings of a composition. Glen Miller knew what music needed to be loved and was enormously successful across the globe it had the emotional connection as did James Reichert's piece hence the reference.

[@grahamburns7776]

I watched the Homicide TV series in Australia as a young boy in the 1960’s, I always thought the theme song was Australian until today after seeing the original record cover made in England. ‘Victory’ by (James Reichert) The New Concert Orchestra (1962).

[@Steve-cs8nd]

Jim Reinhardt , like all sublimely gifted writers for Symphonic wind ensemble Choirs was an American. Hugely gifted and underrated composer not that long ago. Born in the early 30s from memory. This is a textbook example of interweaving the string choirs too. Half the Violas doubling the first violins called interlocking orchestration. It homogenises the choirs and really give body to the melody. I love old Jim. There wasn’t another like him. He didn’t go all twelve tone serial music fake arty fatty like Chagall painting with blue stick figures floating around the sky and being bullied by pseudo intellectuals and wannabe artists into calling crap and bloodbath lunches art. Serial Music is like listening to a kid learning clarinet for six months without improving.

[@grahamburns7776]

@@Steve-cs8nd Thankyou Steve, Did not know much about Jim before this. You have given me a great insight into this remarkable man and his gifted ability to compose great music. Thanks for sharing.

[@grahammiles9043]

Great memories of Len Thiele and co. And, I wonder how many, if any, TV productions use library music these days?

[@thehehrarchive1556]

Not many Graham😢

[@NxDoyle]

They do for interstitials, but not so much for themes. It's so much cheaper to pay for something 'bespoke', from one guy who uses his computer.

[@trevoryoung5611]

Boosey & Hawkes library is now part of the EMI Production Music Library. I've noticed on several ABC dramas Audio Network is used a lot.

[@dennisbird2710]

Loved homicide, bit of triva, the police extras in the scene's were actually real serving police officers

[@stephenmcdavitt9944]

This music brings back memories of watching it in black and white television here in Perth Western Australia on TVW channel 7 in tuart Hill in the 1960s and 1970s Stephen Mc davitt

[@cavok76]

Piece of trivia, one of the relatives of a major star was a serving policeman till recently.

[@teamtamer]

I just noticed this underpinning the final scenes of "Ripping Yarns: Across the Andes by Frog" (ca.1977, Michael Palin & Terry Jones)

[@chrismcarthur8519]

Just great

[@EddieGaster]

"Ah Mac, it's about time." "Sorry i'm a bit late, it was the commercial break."

[@chrismac2405]

Mac, get out to St Kilda…there’s been a murder! Da Da Da Da Daaaa….

[@middayson]

Alwyn Kurts :I thought I told you to get rid of that brown suit. George Mallaby: I think it looks rather spiffy Alwyn : Well it's not, turf it!! Hahahaha 😂(credit to D Generation)

[@rainlori]

Great. I'd always assumed Hector Crawford composed it and was played by his orchestra.

[@alexandergleason8237]

Any chance you could post the flip-side with the three companion tracks? - Bright Future, Goals Achieved and Trail Blazer also by Reichert

[@bloggaloggs]

Seconded! That would be great!

[@chrismac2405]

And on a 78rpm release in 1962!

[@Deliberateyawn001]

This piece of music was used in the sound track to a Kubrick documentary 2001 a look behind the future , thanks for uploading and providing the composer's name .