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01 Halleys Comet Theme Music
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The Australian Theme used by radio and TV for Halleys Comet !985/86
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Harmonic acoustic folk rock, songs with some thing to say and multi instrumental backings!
Hi David Pendragon here, I have been a musician, recording engineer and producer for nearly 30 yrs. In that time my music has covered a lot of ground, I started with an acoustic guitar playing Crosby Stills, Jethro Tull kinda stuff and some of those influences continue in my present work. I have played all kinds of stuff from orchestral arrangements to metal, techno, almost anything except brass band!! Currently my music is incorporating all of my different tastes, having a high quality studio at home is fantastic!! Please help keep our music happening, if each person paid for ONE download of our albums or songs, I would be able to spend much more time in the studio creating new pieces, PLEASE help that happen.
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Classical • Symphonic
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#867 today Peak #5
#136 in subgenre Peak #1
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D.Pendragon
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Pendragon Music
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January 10, 2015
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MP3 10.3 MB • 320 kbps • 4:29
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In 1985 I wrote a song for the Halleys Comet commemorative album called 'Comet of Love'. The project was aimed at attempting to quash the pervading gloom associated with comets and some predictions that had been bandied around about doom gloom and disaster. The original song was sung by Ronnie Charles of The Groop and appeared on Countdown in early !986. In late '85 I got together with Rick Formosa of Little River Band fame and we created and arranged a 42 piece orchestral version of the songs basic melody. Rick did the writing of the instrument parts and I did a lot of humming! It was later recorded at Metropolis Studio in Melbourne with 42 members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Rick conducting. I produced the piece with Ross Cockle engineering and the great sound engineer of that era John French engineering the final record cut. David Hirschfelder from John Farnham Band added Fairlight choral parts to the final cut. This was my only experience of having a song I was a part of recorded with an orchestra. I only very recently found it on a single at the National Archives and then online in a old record shop in Melbourne! This is transferred from the vinyl disk. I hope it brings you joy, it certainly was the point in my career when I realised I could do this stuff.
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