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Production music

I don't think music belongs on this show.

— Gregg Turkington, Oscar Special 4

On Cinema makes use of a large amount of production music in its episodes, Oscar Specials, and spinoffs. The following is a comprehensive but by no means exhaustive list. Links are included where possible.

Please expand as much as possible. Many production tracks can be identified through Shazam/Google sound search but some require deeper searching.

Main themes

  • On Cinema main theme (seasons 1-13): Enjoy The Show by Videohelper production music (Modified/arranged for seasons 12 and 13)
  • On Cinema On Demand theme (season 14): Knockout by The Arcitype
  • Oscar Special theme/Trivia theme: Detective Funk by Carl Giacco

Recurring segment themes

Other segment & episode themes

Trivia/Oscar Special break music

From Upright Production Music:

  • Funky Donkey by Laszlo Bencker (SCD 737 Fun & Funk- Laszlo Bencker)
  • City Drive A (SCD 868 Beauty and Grace)
  • Total Control A (SCD 835 Jazzcraft 4)
  • Quiz A (SCD 749 Showbiz Plus 6 - TV Shows & Games)

Second Oscar Special

  • Gregg's Dolby Theatre tour: My Song 3 by Charles Kreamer
  • Oscar Memory Lane photo tribute: Remembrance by George Panayiotou Kallis (no longer exists online)
  • W.C. Fields/Mark pantomime: Silent Screen Rag by David Graham Farnon; Boston Rag by Jason Mason

Third Oscar Special

Fourth Oscar Special

  • Talking Points by Martin Sponticcia (Sonoton Music)
  • Mark's Marx Brothers: Heroines by Trevor Barstow (Bruton BRO6: Mad Movies); Happy Hippo by Eric Winstone;
  • James Bond tribute: Evil Strike by David Arnold and Paul Brian Hart (can be found on Soho Production Music album 139, or search track name); A Pair of Aces by John Cacavas (Universal Production Music album “Big Screen Legends Two,” track 11 BR462-11)
  • Oscar Olympics: Major Decision 2 by Sammy Burdson and John Charles Fiddy (Upright Music SONV 307 Corporate Fanfares track 7); Destiny by David Robidoux; Victory Fanfare by Alan Hackshaw, from Universal album Olympiad (BR206_BRN31) track 1

Fifth Oscar Special

  • Jaws 2 40th Anniversary Tribute: Star Boogie by Phillippe Guez; Innocence by Alan Hawkshaw (Bruton Music album “Tranquility”)
  • Mark's Jaws scenes: Lurkers by Richard Ames (Quint's monologue); Shark Bait by John Lawrence Schick (available on Stock Music Site, catalog no. 475295)
  • Electric Sun 19/Mark tribute: All About You by Matthew Todd Naylor and Jonathan Josue Monroy (Bruton)
  • George Lucas guilty/Super Oscars: Excellence by Wolfgang Kafer (Warner-Chappelle Production Music)
  • Gregg visits Universal Studios: Movie Premiere by Gregor F. Narholz (on Sonoton SCD 329 Flying Logos, track 286, available on Upright Music); Where Dreams Come True by Ron Goodwin; Constant Flash by Frederic Sicart
  • Close Encounters of the Movie Kind (Mark/Joe dialogue):
    • Intro music: Disco version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme, composed and arranged by John Williams
    • Alien music: Höllische Lacher by Gerhard Trede (available on APM Canada, album Wonder of Nature (GT-0014) track 22

Seventh Oscar Special

  • Gregg's grand entrance: Heroes of the West by Gregor F. Narholz
  • Arthur traveling museum tour: Machines in Motion by Cedric King Palmer (Soho)
  • Joker tribute:
    • Caliope Carousel from Universal Production Music
    • Birdplay 2 by John Tender
    • Thug by Matthew Sanchez, Nick McEnally, Sam Taylor (BTV/pitch album “Urban Beats” BTV230)
    • Newport by Zbigniew Gorny Orchestra & Stanislaw Bartosik
  • It's a Wrap: Celebration 1 from SCORE 100 Celebrations 1, track 1 (Upright Music)
  • Tim & Toni wedding montage: Feels Like Sunshine by John Pregler, David Rockower, and Anthony Militello

Tenth Oscar Special

  • Forgotton but not Gone: “Announcement Fanfare” by David Arnold (SOHO Production Music album "Fanfares" Track 5, SOHO 139-5)
productionmusic.txt · Last modified: 2025/01/10 17:14 by gordontrek