William Goldenberg Fear No Evil 1968 Ritual of Evil 1971 Mp3 Some fx/voices

Back in 1969 I saw a made-for-television movie called Fear No Evil, the first made-for-tv supernatural film. And still the best. It was re-run a year later and I had my new cassette recorder ready and that tape became one of my most prized possessions. In 1971, a sequel aired, Ritual of Evil, and I was ready with my cassette recorder for that one too. It was a pilot for a never made series called The Bedevilled. And then in the early 1980s, just as video casette recorders came into the mass market, Fear and Ritual were re-run, and I got copies, truly high among my most valued possessions even now. They have never been re-run, at least not here. It is commonly accepted that Fear No Evil no longer exists in any form, though there is a rumor that a pristine copy has been found somewhere in Europe, I don’t think that has ever been verified. Both starred the wonderful Louis Jourdan, and if you don’t know about him and his extremely cool life, look him up. YouTube has a video of him, very aged, finally receiving a long-deserved Medal of Honour.

About 10 years ago, I ran my vhs tapes through my Plextor ConvertX and copied them to dvd. Now I’ve just copied them to the hard drive with Handbrake, edited them with Audacity to extract as much music from them as I could, and have converted them to mp3. Just uploaded the first try here:

Edit – a third, corrected track list try here:

https://mega.nz/#!MRJTABRT!BwO0nsQfz8zDfikKIlzwI-Nzxm7aBkDo4sw5VMQzcVA
Artwork: https://mega.nz/#!oZpWjAIR!LjGdeGMh9z4RkoykePjxeRe0TKsqRsJDR7Se9byd6BQ

The sound quality is awful, even worse than Tadlow’s Blue Max and Suites. Which brings me to Jerry Goldsmith. He is my all time favorite soundtrack composer. But only after these two scores from Billy Goldberg. Fear is as remarkable a score as Planet of the Apes from the same year. And instead of STTMPs much later blaster beam, Goldenberg uses his own blaster beam effect, a very eerie, wolf-like thing that is weird indeed.

So I hope you all will "enjoy" these. They do go beyond creepy, perhaps the scariest movie music ever written. Unfortunately, no one might never get a chance to see the films this goes with, so you won’t realize just how effective this "music" really is.

And if any of the mightily skilled sound editors here want to play with these and make them sound better, there’s a whole world out there that should be properly grateful.

Apologies for my ham-fisted efforts. I will try to make these better myself, too.

Thank you! Right up my alley.

Having never heard either before, I’ll give ’em a swing. Thanks for the effort.

Batman and Superman kiss?

Thank you very much

Thanks for sharing. I love old scary TV movies!!!!

Corrected the two duplicate tracks in Ritual and re-uploaded a complete new file with track names added to all:

https://mega.nz/#!MRJTABRT!BwO0nsQfz8zDfikKIlzwI-Nzxm7aBkDo4sw5VMQzcVA

Found a trailer for Fear No Evil on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeOyahDUNAU
Had to leave out the good music in the trailer where the girl is locked out of the house, as there were just too much fx and other sound. Too bad.

And what looks like about the same quality vhs copy as mine of the complete Ritual of Evil, in several parts, starting at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIdQ_DqF1xc&list=PLB9FE18CF794A8361
as well as another intact version, though the picture quality is even worse.

Ritual isn’t as overtly horror as Fear but it’s still a good and intelligent spooky show, and in the end perhaps somewhat more mature than Fear.

Hope you enjoy the music!!

Link to corrections added above.
Hope you enjoy the music!!

Thank you for this share. 🙂

thank you

Corrected the two duplicate tracks in Ritual and re-uploaded a complete new file with track names added to all…

Unfortunately there’s no means of distinguishing Fear tracks from Ritual tracks. A track listing would be very helpful.

Oh, great, I forgot to renumber them. The first of each number (like 01) is Fear, the second of each number (the second 01) is Ritual. I will fix this soon.

thanks

New link to corrected corrected download has added to the above posts, fixing the track numbers.

Thanks for that. It’s such a pity so many marvellous American made television movie scores from the late 60s into the 70s will never see the light of day.

And…just for the hell of it:

And thanks for that! I’m using it! But the one thing I will have to change is that he was credited as "William" in those days.

…he was credited as "William" in those days.

Ya, I just took note of that on IMDB a short while ago. Album credit changed.

Okay, inspired, so I had to make some more "authentic" covers and inserts for this:
https://mega.nz/#!oZpWjAIR!LjGdeGMh9z4RkoykePjxeRe0TKsqRsJDR7Se9byd6BQ
Don’t know how to add a photo in-line here, tho every time I try, it tells me that the file exceeds my quota by just how big the file is. Guess I’m just not allowed to, even if it says I am. ?? Anyway, they’re there, front back and two inside. Cheers and happy dreams.