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Original Songs Music; Guy Gross John Levine John Zulaikha Lyrics; John Palmer Incidental Music; Bob Young John Sangster SONGS Queen Ant Spider Cockroach Little Things Butterfly Worker Ant Music Music Guy Gross John Levine & John Zulaikha Lyrics Lyrics John Palmer John Palmer Additional Incidental Music Paul Adolphus Dot & the Kangaroo Song by Bob Young Songwriters John Levine and John Zulaikha: Levine later went into relaxation/trance music, with a bio here. He excluded his site from the Wayback Machine, but there's another site with samples here. John Zulaikha could be found on Discogs here. Co-composer of incidental music, Bob Young: Bob Young had worked as an Australian show band arranger and conductor, as well as a composer before doing the score for the feature film Journey Out Of Darkness. He did a trilogy of films for Goldsworthy CUP, starting with It Takes All Kinds, followed by Color Me Dead, and then the last in the package, That Lady from Peking, which was released in 1971. After doing the convict drama Adam's Woman for Warner Bros, he would continue on with other feature films, including Warwick Freeman's Demonstrator. As well as Inn of the Damned, he would do Plugg, Little Boy Lost and Lady Stay Dead with director Terry Bourke. Young also became an arranger and composer for Yoram Gross and his "Dot" animation features, starting with Dot and the Kangaroo, and including Gross's Sarah and The Camel Boy, and continuing until Gross's son Guy took over composing duties for the company. He became the first president of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for the period 1987-1991, hosting the first Screen Music Awards ceremony in 1992. Young led a varied musical life, working with Bobby Limb and appearing on stations such as 2UW, and is mentioned in a memoir about Don Banks, at Trove here: …my war years were spent mainly around Melbourne and I started to do much more regular playing. Some of the people I worked with were Russ Jones on vibes, Bobby Limb on saxophone, and Bob ‘Beetles’ Young, who played piano. They had just come over from Adelaide to play with Bob Gibson’s band down at St Kilda. (Below: Bob "Beetles" Young in his Bob Gibson band days) Co-composer of incidental music, John Sangster: John Sangster was a Melbourne-born Australian jazz composer and arranger, who also played drums, the cornette and vibraphone. In relation to his work for Avengers of the Reef, the Oxford noted that his "sinister percussive" score helped produce highly competent children's entertainment. John Sangster has a wiki here. In the Australian scene Sangster was an innovative musician, starting with the progressive rock group Tully, working his way through a Lord of the Rings series of LPs, and working on a variety of scores for films and television documentaries. A lot of his music was on the Swaggie label. Sangster also did the score for the relatively lost family telemovie Fluteman. When it is remembered, the film is usually remembered for its score by John Sangster, performed by flautist Don Burrows. Burrows, whose career intersected with Sangster a number of times, has a wiki here. Move Records lists the CD release of the original soundtrack recording here, with links to further details to the various artists who worked on the disc, along with this note on the disc and Sangster: John Sangster composed the music for the little-known film "Fluteman" in 1982. The film may not be high in your mind, but the music performed by Don Burrows (flute), and eight other jazz players makes wonderful listening apart from the film. This is the line-up: Don Burrows: concert and alto flutes, clarinet and fife Errol Buddle: oboe, piccolo and alto saxophone Col Loughnan: flute and tenor saxophone Roy Ainsworth: bass-clarinet and baritone saxophone George Golla: electric and acoustic guitars Tony Ansell: electric piano and synthesiser Chris Qua: bass Alan Turnbull: Drums and finger-cymbals John Sangster: percussions, which include marimba, vibraphone, bell-tree, glockenspiel, vibraslap and tambourine The CD comes with brief track by track program notes written by John Sangster. John Sangster was one of the most talented Australian jazz musicians of all time, a technician and creator who embraced and understood more styles of music than any other. Sangster wrote a book about his life and musical times, published by Penguin. (Below: John Sangster, and related works) Co-composer of songs, Guy Gross: Guy Gross gradually became more involved in doing the music for his father, Yoram Gross's films, and the songs for this film were another step on this path, which would see him take over most of the work. Guy Gross worked on Stephan Elliott’s The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and subsequently did the score for Elliott’s Welcome to Woop Woop. Guy Gross began as a composer doing scores for his father’s animated feature films, including Epic, Dot and the Whale, Dot Goes to Hollywood, Dot and the Smugglers, The Magic Riddle and Blinky Bill, before moving on to scoring the first 26 episodes of the TV series The Adventures of Blinky Bill. In the VHS ‘Blinky Bill making of’ Gross was shown at work on the score, which like the music for his first collaboration with director Stephan Elliott - Frauds - was an orchestrated piece, using some of the players from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In the case of Frauds, the players were dressed up as the “Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra”. Frauds was Gross’s first feature outside the family farm, so to speak, and he thereafter became a very active composer, on both Gross company projects and for others, with Welcome to Woop Woop his third association with Elliott. (Below: Gross in the Blinky Bill VHS ‘making of’) At time of writing, composer Guy Gross had his own website here. At time of writing, it contained this CV and these credits, and could also be found on the WM here: Guy Gross is one of Australia's leading film and television composers and recipient of the APRA/AGSC International Achievement Award. In 2012 he was elected president of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. From his British Academy Award (BAFTA) nominated score to the international hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert to the US SCI-FI series "Farscape", his film scores cover a huge variety of styles. Testament to this diversity, Guy has received numerous peer awards including Best Music for a Documentary, Children's Series, Short film, Animation, Promotional Video, Advertisement, TV Theme and twice for Best Music for a TV Series. Over his 30 year career, Guy has composed music for hundreds of hours of television, including dramatic mini series, children's animation, documentaries, commercials and also a number of Australian feature films. His film music has underscored the acting performances of Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Garry McDonald, Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue, Phil Collins, Guy Pearce and Olivia Newton John and his scores have been performed in concert by the Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. Guy began film scoring while still studying composition at the Conservatorium High School in Sydney, Australia. Son of film producers Yoram and Sandra Gross, he began scoring many of the family companies' feature and television projects. Following in his father's footsteps, Guy directed and scored the animated TV series "Old Tom and wrote, scored, produced, and directed the animated television special "Blinky Bill's White Christmas". At the age of 26, Guy scored his first feature film, "Frauds" directed by Stephan Elliott and went on to score four features with Stephan including the 1994 international hit "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and more recently, "A Few Best Men". In '95, Guy composed his award winning score to the ABC TV series "Bordertown" for Knapman Wyld Television for whom he has also scored all three seasons of the internationally award winning TV Series "East West 101". In 1999 Guy received the (shared) award for Best Music at the Tropicana Film Festival (Tropfest) for his score to that year's winning short film "Uno Amore". That year Guy also composed the score to the horror feature film "Cut" for Mushroom Pictures and soon after that began scoring the hit Sci-Fi series "Farscape" produced by The Jim Henson Company. "Farscape" has been a monumental project for Guy keeping him busy for over three years culminating in a big budget, 2 part television mini series "Farscape - Peacekeeper Wars" which enabled him to enlist the services of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conduct the 140 strong orchestra and choir to create one of his largest film scores to-date. Farscape has spun off five Soundtrack Albums. In recent years Guy has scored the tele-movies: "Dangerous Remedy", "A Model Daughter - The Killing of Caroline Byrne", "Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback", "Scorched", documentaries: "The Howard Years", "The Prime Minister is Missing" and "Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?". Guy owns a recording studio complex in Camperdown, Sydney which houses a number of studios and composing suites. CHILDRENS' - ANIMATED FEATURES 2005 Blinky Bill’s White Christmas Telemovie Composer of Original Score and Theme (performed by Christine Anu) Production Company: Yoram Gross–EM.TV 2003 Tabaluga and Leo: A Christmas Adventure Production Company: Yoram Gross–EM.TV 1993 Blinky Bill Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1990 The Magic Riddle Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1986 Dot and the Whale Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1986 Dot Goes to Hollywood Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1984 Dot and Keeto Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1984 Dot and the Smugglers Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios 1980 Sarah Production Company: Yoram Gross Film Studios CHILDRENS' - ANIMATED TV 2008 Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: March Entertainment + SLR Productions 2005 Flipper & Lopaka Series 3 26 x 1/2 hour episodes Production Company: Yoram Gross – EM.TV.