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DOCTOR WHO: THE SUN MAKERS

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Label: SILVA
CD No: SILCD1569
Release Date: 2020/05/01
Format: 1CD

Composer Dudley Simpson’s first contribution to Doctor Who was his music for Planet of Giants (starring William Hartnell as the first Doctor) in 1964. By the end of the 1960s he was the programme’s “go to” composer, scoring a total of 294 episodes up until his last, The Horns of Nimon, in 1979.
Looking purely at the 1970s, encompassing the episodes starring Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor and Tom Baker as the fourth (seasons 7 to 17) there were 58 stories over 272 episodes, with Dudley scoring 51 (234 episodes). An amazing body of work; and that’s just Doctor Who, let alone Blake’s Seven, Moonbase 3, Target, Paul Temple, The Tomorrow People, The Brothers and many, many more. He started that period on Doctor Who using a very small orchestra, moved into working entirely at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on EMS synthesisers for a year (assisted by Brian Hodgson), then added percussion, then back to a small band with Radiophonic synth overdubs, until his final few episodes where the synth became part of the band. It is a shame therefore that only two complete scores from this era survive. One is The Mind of Evil, one of those EMS scores from 1971; the other is the one is this release, The Sun Makers from 1977.

Dudley Simpson died on 4th November 2017, aged 95.

Track List

1. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Doctor Who Opening Title Theme
2. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Death and Taxes
3. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Mahogany
4. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- One Thousand Metres
5. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Six Suns
6. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?Others
7. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Subway 13
8. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Subway 13 (Continued)
9. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- A Heart as Big as your Mouth
10. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- A Little Hop
11. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Jelly Babies
12. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Something in?the?Air
13. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- K9, Bite!
14. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Humbug
15. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?P45 Return Route
16. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?P45 Return Route (Reprise)
17. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Morton's Fork
18. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- I’ve Heard That One, Too
19. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?Rebellion Begins
20. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Static Loop
21. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?Steaming
22. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?Steaming Continued
23. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Gentlemen, Good Luck
24. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Nobody Works Today
25. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- The?Gatherer Excised
26. Dudley Simpson|Delia Derbyshire?- Doctor Who Closing Title Theme (53" Version)