There have been a few releases of music related to local TV shows that we know of:
Themes on 45
Not a lot of these:
Albums
Comedy shows
Kid's TV
Miscellaneous
Loxene Gold Disc Awards
Cassettes
Must have been more cassettes from Kiwi TV shows than these.
Television Gold (All Time Favourite TV Themes)
This compilation album is of particular interest as a rare example of NZ songs being showcased alongside the international themes.
Issued in New Zealand by Record Co's in conjunction with TV One, this contained 24 TV Show Theme tunes/songs. It was released on LP and Tape only. Mixed in with some memorable overseas tunes there are a couple of NZ Classics.
- Nadia's Theme (The Young & The Restless) - Roger Williams
- Sutherland's Law - Scottish National Orchestra
- Theme From Rush - Brian May & The A.B.C. Showband
- Sweet Charity (TV1's '79 Olympics theme) - Paul Mauriat & Orch
- Calypso (The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau
- Theme From M*A*S*H - The Mash
- Close to Home - Jack Body
- Family At War - Vaughan Williams 6th Symp
- Coronation Street - Alan Tew
- Chitter Chatter - (Theme from Joe and Koro)
- Hawaii Five-O - Norrie Paramor & Orch
- TV1's 6.30 News 6.30pm News - unknown
- Tonight At Nine (from Prologue to A Hot August Night) [Neil Diamond]
- Hillbilly Child (Theme from Country Calender) - Alan Moorhouse
- The Lotus Eaters - Stavros Xarhakos Orch
- Star Trek Theme - The Inside Startrek Orch
- The Hanged Man - Bullet
- Happy Days - The Silver Studs
- The Sweeney - The Alan Tew Orch
- The New Avengers - Laurie Johnson Orch
- Warship - Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards
- The Pallisers - New Philharmonic Orch
- War And Peace (Czarist National Anthem) - The Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards.
New Zealand Composers On Screen
CD and DVD prepared by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (Investment NZ) in 2005 to promote the work of NZ film composers by showcasing excerpts from a range of films and tv shows.
CD.
Tracey's theme / Shayne Carter
Tango / Victoria Kelly
Insiders Guide to Happiness / David Long
Drive home / Neil Finn
Hymn 'nga haere o te wa' / Jonathan Crayford
Duggan theme / Gareth Farr
Bits and pieces / Leyton
Taut, surreal montage/Sad security guard / Mark Austin
Souvenirs / Peter Scholes
Equator / Trevor Coleman
Bill / Plan 9
The vector file / Bruce Lynch
Saturn rising / John Charles
River of life / Graeme Perkins
Collage / Joost Langeveld
Skin and bone / Joel Haines
Morphine / Andrew Thomas
Out there / Todd Hunter
Once were warriors / Murray Grindley and Murray McNabb
Explorers (Oowee) / Dave Dobbyn
The orchard / Michelle Scullion
Dolphins of the shadowland / Neville Copland
Lime juice/ Don McGlashan
Lovers in gondola / Clive Cockburn
Flight of the Albatross / Jan Preston
Epitaph theme / John Gibson
Channelling baby / Peter Dasent
Matemate-a-one / James HallGod / Bevan Smith.
The Strip / by Gareth Farr
DVD contains scenes from films produced in New Zealand with music composed by New Zealand composers; it's not clear if it's the same music as the cd.
Telethon charity 45s
Marketing Department tie-ins
Occasionally TVNZ seems to have ventured into releases that had only vague or no relationship with shows in an effort to make some money.
Ready to Roll was an obvious excuse to release some chart topper complications so they couldn't really resist putting the logo to use:
But these three don't make any mention of anything on screen:
Christchurch label Golden Editions released a series of compilation albums that had "TVNZ" in their catalogue numbers, but aside from the occasional "seen on TV" label they doesn't seem to have been any direct link to the TV screen.
A slowly growing number the songs mentioned here can be found on music services such as spotify:
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