Music From One Step Beyond

Like the strange and stirring human experiences from the psychic sphere, these selected themes from the new hit TV series ‘ALCOA PRESENTS’ are by turn hauntingly beautiful, deeply moving, and unforgettably different.

Harry Lubin, Musical Director of ‘ALCOA PRESENTS’, chose the world-famous seventy-five piece Berliner Symphoniker to record his compositions that were written expressly for these arresting adventures into the supernatural. To achieve the unique character of his ‘music from another world’, Mr. Lubin augmented this brilliant group of musicians with specially selected instruments. In combination with the Symphoniker you will hear the accordion, the novachord, a most unusual coloratura voice, and a new electronic instrument called the trautonium. Whether or not you are among the scores of millions who have seen ‘ALCOA PRESENTS’ on the air, you will enjoy:

1 . . . the ethereal strains of ‘Fear,’ the title music of ‘ALCOA PRESENTS’…

2 . . . the haunting music, ‘Island Off Spain,’ from the delicate and startlingly different love story, ‘The Return Of Mitchell Campion,’ which speaks of the distant, misty isle that lives in Everyman’s imagination—the Shangri-La, the Utopia where everything is just as we would wish it to be . . .

3 . . . ‘On The Terrace’ from the sad story of the little child who saw the untimely end of her own grandchild not even to be born for another forty years . . .

4 . . . you will hear the rich, romantic strains of ‘You Are My Love’…

5 . . . from the picture ‘Inheritance’—the story of a beautiful diamond necklace with a malevolent life of its own—‘The Bullfight,’ a theme that captures the special flavor of that polyglot of lost souls and the excitement of the colorful life of this stimulating metropolis, Mexico City . . .

6 . . . perhaps the most unforgettable melody of all, the psychic music of ‘Weird’ that is heard time and time again throughout the series . . .

7 . . . ‘Paris’ that captures the flavor of France’s rich and often mysterious history . . .

8 . . . also, from ‘The Return Of Mitchell Campion,’ Francesca’s theme, ‘Bygone Memories’ in which she represents Everyman’s personal goddess of love . . .

9 . . . from the strange and unforgettable ‘Riddle’ of an American’s fatal encounter with reincarnation in remote India, the compelling music of ‘Trip To The Far East’…

10 . . . the painfully beautiful ‘Pathetique,’ the theme of unrequited love . . .

11 . . . the ‘Jungle Aire’ from ‘Echo,’ the story of a guilty man’s conscience-ridden vision of his own terrible fate—a fate he cannot evade as he is driven to run even faster toward self-destruction to the accompaniment of an irresistible Afro-Cuban beat . . .

– John Newland

Track Listing

Side 1

1. Fear
2. Island Off Spain
3. On The Terrace
4. You Are My Love
5. Bullfight

Side 2

1. Weird
2. Paris
3. Bygone Memories
4. Trip To The Far East
5. Pathetique
6. Jungle Aire

Album Information

• Artist: Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Lubin
• Catalog Number: DL 78970
• Catalog Numbers: DL 78970
• Label: Hi-Fi Decca Records
• Liner Notes: John Newland
• Source: DL-78970
• Format: Stereo LP, 33⅓ RPM
• Series: Alcoa Presents (Television Series)
• Orchestra: Berliner Symphoniker (seventy-five piece)
• Equalization: RIAA equalization setting required for proper Stereo reproduction
• Country: Printed in U.S.A.
• Stereo Note: THIS IS A TRUE HI-FI STEREOPHONIC RECORD!