The Sweeney – Series 1-4 + Regan (Library Music & Cues)

The Sweeney

As is common practice with many television shows, other than the specially-comissioned title theme, Harry South’s unforgettable, rousing actioner, "ready-made" music was mostly used to provide incidental themes to the action. These came from specialist "Production Music" houses, the most well-known being De Wolfe, KPM (Keith Prowse Music), Chappell and Bruton The years 1971 to 1978 arguably represented the genre’s most creative era (before competition and corporatism took over and strangled much artistic creativity), serendipitously co-inciding with production of The Sweeney itself.

In 2001 Sanctuary Records issued a Sweeney CD compilation with 25 tracks used in the show. As good as it was, it really only scratched the surface and sadly no further volumes have been forthcoming.

In many cases the incidental music was as good as that of the main title theme – indeed much of it is heard in other shows of the era, notably The Protectors, The Return of the Saint and The Famous Five.

This collection comprises 335 library tracks, as heard in order, from the four series and pilot movie ‘Regan’. Often tracks are duplicated throughout episodes and series, I have used them as first heard in the shows, I hope this doesn’t spoil the enjoyment.

I have sourced these over many years, but mainly from my own defunct post on The Sweeney Library music (I have had many requests to re-up these links), I was never happy with the original ‘OST’s’ I did years ago, and have only just gone back this to fully sort out….what a nightmare.

These are sourced from CD, LP, websites etc, only one track – Gordan Grant’s ‘Vital Spiral’ from De Wolfe LP ‘Dangerous Connection’ is a bit ropy, if anyone has a decent rip of the track, please upload to the thread or mail my inbox, that would make things complete, but it is on the soundtracks, included here.

As stated, I have not used repeat tracks (only when they have appeared in each series), and only other tracks missing are classical cues and one show (from series 1) that used exclusively Harry South composed cues….sadly not available…..

Link will be available till it expires….won’t be a re-up, please don’t share to other sites.

335 tracks – FLAC @ 3.80GB – custom front cover – fully tagged with artist & title

LINK

https://mega.nz/#!9LAQFSjY!BequVyyEDLzNmD9AMnlKUm7Z9hftjrBOEA3OryMMoHIo

Thanks!!!

Bloody brilliant.
What an effort – Many, many thanks.
Kudos to you Andee70.
Downloading now.

Thanks for all your hard work in compiling all of these tracks. Looks really good.

Amazing! Thanks So Much!

Thank you so much for sharing this – amazing stuff!

Thank you very much.

welcome

Thanks!

I know how hard it is to do this kind of stuff, so many many thanks for your efforts.

thank you

Thank you so much!

Most impressive!

Thanks 🙂

Magnificent! Thanks so much for all your work! 🙂

This is superb! Thank you so much

Thanks for this

AMAZING!!!! Huge thanks for taking the time to put this together! 🙂

A GREAT work of love from a true fan.

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing it!!!

I’m just wading through volume/series one – I can’t believe there so many individual pieces of music in the show….! I suppose I shall have to watch all the episodes and see if I can pick them out…

Thank you for all the hard work putting this together. Thank you.

Thank you.

many thanks

Thank you

Thank you

Link no longer available – any chance of a reup?

Link no longer available – any chance of a reup?

Second

Second

me too!!

I would like these as well – my drive crashed and I lost them.

Any chance of a reup, please?

Oh, YES PLEASE! I would like to add my name to the re-up request. I would love to hear these library cues.

Link no longer available – any chance of a reup?

I’d second that. Re-up please?

I’d second that. Re-up please?

I will do one more final re-up, to be honest I’m really busy with other things in my life.

So grab when you can. Will let you know when done.

new link up now

Grab while you can

FLAC copy only – don’t have MP3 anymore

Thank you very much!!!

welcome

This is amazing. Than you so much for posting this.

great thank you

Absolutely stupendous! Many Many Thanks for the share!

bump

Many thanks again for this terrific compilation.

You did a perfect job, and the music is so good! 🙂

Here’s a better rip of "Vital Spiral" by Gordon Grant, from the KPM album shared (in flac) by BlackwatchPlaid in the library thread :

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/TLEY5Ho0/file.html

Thanks

Many thanks again for this terrific compilation.

You did a perfect job, and the music is so good! 🙂

Here’s a better rip of "Vital Spiral" by Gordon Grant, from the KPM album shared (in flac) by BlackwatchPlaid in the library thread :

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/TLEY5Ho0/file.html

Awesome thanks so much for that I will add to it my collection

Great stuff!

Thanks.

many thanks, guv! greatly appreciated!

Wonderful! Many thanks.

It’s still an ongoing project but I’ll drop these previews here 🙂

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So glad this link is still alive! I have vol 1, but 3-4 disappeared somehow… Thanks so much Andee70!