A 45 RPM promotional record from 1976 by Thomas J. Valentino, Inc., advertising the Major Production Music Library and Major Production Sound Effects Library.
T.J.Valentino goes back previous to the era of ANOTHER Valentino in entertainment...Rudolph Valentino. Many old TV cartoons used his tracks and so did retro-music tracked (in 50s) silent cartoons and live shorts, even the 1959 pilot of the Flintstones (the swimming pool,which of course wound up with H.Curtin's own music.) (Of course Flintstone creators Hanna and Barbera at the time, in most of their sshort cartoons thru mid 1961 used Capitol and some others..)
@@rydercartoonanimations Yep, them too! A few of the animated segments used the Major Production Music library, too, like the "Billy Jo Jive" segments.
I found one of these records at Savers, "Sound Effects Library Volume 19" and yeah they do sound dated even for 1980 when the record was made There's some really cheesy 50s era sci-fi sound effects on it too. I wonder if Valentino had and mob connections with a last name like that and being in NY at the time?
Never saw a single before. I grew up watching science fiction and horror movies with this collection derived from Major Records on 78 rpm. Great great composers like Rico Calle, Sam Trust and Roger Roger among others deserve much more than a mere mention as part of a movie library collection. I believe the only official soundtrack with these tracks is THE BLOB (Steve McQueen version).Last but not least, I don't mind about the "dated" sound. All music has had an evolution. I don't mind mono recordings either, even with buses or cars sound in the street leaking onto tape on some tracks.Still after all these years I believe Thomas Valentino Inc stands out within the incidental / atmospheric movie/tv/radio music. Thanks for sharing.
For those of us in our 50's and 60's and older the music from TJ Valentino is burned into our consciousness because it was used in so many TV films and also some cheap theatrical films. It was in the Superman TV show and the old Paul Terry silent cartoons sold to TV by Commonwealth to name a few. I wish that old 1950's library could be made available in it's entirety for those of us who would like some fun reliving childhood memories.
+Christian Landaeta Torres these recordings actually sound pretty amazing... the vinyl sounds warm and not too sharp like HD music these days....god the new stuff is fatiguing on the ears
the "disco" piece is titled "cant let you go" by walter murphy from #6090 (1975). murphy was one of the soul contributors of the major records/tj valentino library. great stuff.
Valentino Inc./Major Records occasionally did put out an LP for sale to the general public. Their albums of silent-movie piano music and (I think) circus calliope used to be sold thru Blackhawk Films in Davenport, Iowa and probably other dealers.
i wonder if there is anyone on here that has the music records would love to have some of these obscure songs i live in the 1970s btw thumbs up if you think they should bring back the 1970s pull tab sodas and beer cans!
Main songs in order (not all of them): Walter Murphy - Can't Let You Go Arlon Orber - Torino Walter Murphy - Score #1 and the rest, i don't know. (Source: Valentino, Unique Vintage Production Music)
Does anyone know which announcer is heard on this? I've heard this voice on ads such as that for Milleridge Inn and Village on 1010 WINS over the years.
Murphy contributed to things to pop culture in America: The famous 1976 disco take on Beethoven "A Fifth of Beethoven", which was actually a #1 uS Billboard Top 100 pop chart hit that I got at that time...at age 15 (and I sitllhave that 45!LOL) - remember instrumentals?--and a certain FAMILY cartoons (Seth MacFarlane, whose Ted finally won me over to Seth's humor, though that's a clumsy way to describe it, given that it's Seth, but all this is the very same Walter Murphy today!)
