Music Brian King Alan Oloman

Mirne's Theme by Ian Coughlan

Music Recorded At E.M.I. Studios Sydney

Composers Brian King and Alan Oloman once worked together in the band The Executives.

The essential for music buffs site Miles Ago provides this obituary of Oloman here:

Australian musician, songwriter and audio engineer Alan "Olly" Oloman died in Sydney on 9 August (2008) after a long illness.

Alan started his music career as the singer and lead guitarist with legendary Lithgow band The Black Diamonds and wrote most of their material. The band had a large set- list that consisted almost entirely of originals, but sadly only three tracks were ever commercially recorded -- the two sides of their classic debut single "See The Way" / "I Want, Need Love You" (Festival, 1966) and the A-side of their second single "Not This Time" (Festival, 1967). They were reported to be the first pop band from country NSW to score a recording contract without having relocated to Sydney first.

The Black Diamonds played extensively around the NSW central west, and they were hailed by The Easybeats as the best support act they ever worked with. They eventually relocated to Sydney in the late Sixties, where their next recording was a version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", released under the pseudonym Love Machine. After a name change to Tymepiece, the group released three singles and one superb self-titled progressive album (Infinity, 1971) before splitting up.

Alan subsequently joined a later lineup of The Executives as bassist. He spent many years at EMI's Studio 301 in Sydney working on film, TV and radio projects under studio manager Martin Benge, who went on to head Abbey Rd Studios in London. Alan played in the groups Ayre and Stax in the 1980s and set up his own studio in his hometown of Lithgow.

The Black Diamonds is one of the legendary 'should have made it' Australian garage bands, and one of their most popular tracks can be seen on YouTube here. (The same number, with timecode present is available on YouTube here, with an exotic soapie intro).

(Below: Oloman as part of The Black Diamonds)

Miles Ago has more on The Black Diamonds here.

Alan Oloman also featured in the short lived band Tymepiece, more details here. One of Tymepiece's songs can be seen at YouTube here.

Co-composer Brian King still had a personal website active at time of writing, with this biography here (contact details, cd and live details, and press kit also available):

After studying piano as a child, and playing in various bands in his teenage years, Brian King began a full time career in music when he formed the pop group "The Executives".

The Executives performed on all the major Australian TV shows of the time, such as Countdown, The Don Lane Show, Paul Hogan Special, The Johnny O'Keefe Show and of course Bandstand where they appeared regularly.

The group also enjoyed recording success with three top ten singles and achieved recognition for their live shows with three "MO" nominations.

In the early 70's The Executives were signed by the American Buddah label who's stable included acts like The Lovin' Spoonfull and Melanie.

The group was managed by DiBlasio, Wald & Day who's client list featured Billy Joel, Helen Reddy and Tiny Tim.

During the years living in Hollywood, Brian gained a wealth of experience in music recording and on returning to Australia set up a jingle and film music production company.

He has written and produced music for three feature films, several documentary scores and literally hundreds of advertising jingles.

In addition to his music recording activities, Brian works as a solo performer in Sydney club, restaurant and cruise ship venues.

Brian is an Australian Entertainment "Mo" award winner and has been nominated several times in the "ACE" (Australian Club Entertainment Awards) awards in the piano/ vocal category.

(Below: Brian King)

Miles Ago has more details on The Executives here. The Executives had relatively short- lived chart success. One of their most successful songs is available on YouTube here, with links to a number of their other songs and performances. Writer-director Ian Coughlan provided the music and lyrics for "Mirne's Theme", a softly delivered song by an uncredited female voice, accompanied principally by a solo guitar, which runs over the end credits. The lyrics are as follows:

Come to me gently Open your soul to me In last glow of twilight I wait for you silently

Come to me sweetly Come share the night with me Follow my footsteps And I'll make you see

Cold and alone In my prison of stone How could I have known How sweet love could be

Come to me softly Sail to the stars with me And we'll be together For e …ter…nity …

(a flute and piano then take the music out to end of credits and a brief overhang on black)