THE INCREDIBLE HULK: The First Parts 1 & 2 von joeharnell.com

[Marcus Stöhr]

joeharnell.com presents THE INCREDIBLE HULK: THE FIRST PARTS I & II,

featuring music composed and conducted by Joe Harnell for the cult television show,

THE INCREDIBLE HULK, created and developed by Kenneth Johnson (THE BIONIC

MAN, THE BIONIC WOMAN, V) and starring Bill Bixby as David Bruce Banner and Lou

Ferrigno as his green-skinned, purple-panted living ID, along with Jack Colvin

as Banners nemesis, journalist Jack McGee.

THE FIRST was a two part episode that aired during the shows Fourth Season,

in 1981. The story begins with David Banner discovering that he was not the

first person to study the effects of gamma radiation on human beings and that

another man had done so thirty years before. In this case, Dr. Jeffrey Clive

used gamma radiation to heal a man who was in poor health. This man, Del

Frye, had become embittered from being constantly bullied by the local

townspeople. Because of his mental state, the creature that was created from his

exposure to gamma rays was different from Banner and the Hulk, more aggressive. It

actually killed people. Dr. Clive, long dead, had actually discovered a cure

for Fryes condition and successfully treated him. But Frye, now old and

weak, and still bullied by the townspeople, wants to have the power again.

Discovering Clives laboratory, David finds a machine that is capable of harnessing

gamma radiation from the sun. In order for Clives cure to work, David must

take it and bombard himself with gamma radiation from the machine. Before he

can continue, though, Frye knocks him unconscious and straps himself to the

machine, exposing himself to the gamma rays and unleashing the dangerous

creature from the past. After a murderous rampage through town, David is able to

subdue Frye and get him back to the machine to cure him. Sensing what David is

trying to do, Frye transforms again and destroys the last vial of Clives

cure. Distraught by the loss of a cure for his condition, David changes into

the Hulk and the two creatures fight. But Davids Hulk is more powerful and he

is able to beat Frye, who is eventually shot dead by the town sheriff. Meant

as an homage to the classic Universal Monsters films of the 1940s and 1950s,

Joe used the opportunity to score THE FIRST in the style of those films.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK was a surprisingly popular television show that ran for

five seasons on CBS, from 1978 to 1982 and returning again in the late 1980

s, in three more television films. Taking a page from Victor Hugos LES

MISERABLES, the show chronicled the journey of scientist David Bruce Banner,

wrongly accused of the murder of an associate in a lab explosion and doggedly

pursued across the country by tabloid journalist Jack McGee and law enforcement,

as he struggled to find some way to both prove his innocence and cure himself

of the radiation-inspired accident that forced him to turn into the Hulk when

provoked. Accompanying Banner on his travels was the music of veteran

composer Joe Harnell, in particular, his Lonely Man theme, performed on solo piano,

which would play out at the end of each episode as Banner, once again

misunderstood and pushed aside by society despite his compassionate efforts to help

his fellow Man, must take to the road and move on to the next town. Much of

Joes music for the show had echoes of the Lonely Man theme in it, including a

compelling and lyrical love theme and a well-remembered brassy horn motif

that would inevitably culminate with the transformation of Banner into the

Hulk. Few television shows are so strongly identified with a single theme and

even now, decades later, the Lonely Man theme is fondly remembered by fans of

the show, inextricably linked to the characters of Banner and the Hulk.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK: THE FIRST PARTS I & II features music composed and

conducted by Joe Harnell, continuing Joes successful creative collaboration with

Writer/Director/Producer Kenneth Johnson, a relationship that includes

fondly remembered television projects such as THE BIONIC WOMAN, HOT PURSUIT,

CLIFFHANGERS, V The Original Mini-Series and ALIEN NATION. Joe Harnell has been

nominated for an Emmy Award on three occasions for Best Dramatic Score.

During his career, Harnell composed over 400 hours of original music for motion

pictures and television. His scores for THE BIONIC WOMAN and THE INCREDIBLE HULK

heavily influenced the scoring of all Universal television programs in the

late 1970s. His scores used a traditional orchestral approach (influenced by

his Jazz roots) using a 32 piece orchestra. He frequently conducted scores

from the piano during recording sessions and he performed all the piano and

keyboard solos in all of his scores.

joeharnell.com presents the original television soundtrack recording to THE

INCREDIBLE HULK: THE FIRST PARTS I & II in loving memory of the great Joe

Harnell. THE INCREDIBLE HULK: THE FIRST PARTS I & II is an Exclusive

joeharnell.com release, factory manufactured, limited to 1500 units and professionally

mastered by Digital Outland.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK: THE FIRST PARTS I & II featuring music composed and

conducted by Joe Harnell is available for pre-orders at _www.joeharnell.com_

(Joe Harnell) and starts shipping on March 31, 2009.

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