THE SUN MAKERS Music by Dudley Simpson PART ONE PART THREE 1 Doctor Who Opening Title Theme 0.46 16 The P45 Return Route (Reprise) 0.55 2 Death and Taxes 0.28 17 Morton’s Fork 1.09 3 Mahogany 0.51 18 I’ve Heard That One, Too 1.05 4 One Thousand Metres 2.12 19 The Rebellion Begins 0.46 5 Six Suns 1.53 20 Static Loop 3.20 6 The Others 1.29 21 The Steaming 1.17 7 Subway 13 0.36 PART FOUR PART TWO 22 The Steaming Continued 1.10 8 Subway 13 (Continued) 1.07 23 Gentlemen, Good Luck 0.40 9 A Heart as Big as your Mouth 0.29 24 Nobody Works Today 2.11 10 A Little Hop 0.23 25 The Gatherer Excised 0.43 11 Jelly Babies 0.31 26 Doctor Who Closing Title Theme (53” Version) 0.55 12 Something in the Air 0.24 Music composed and conducted by Dudley Simpson (MCPS/PRS) 13 K9, Bite! 0.54 Except tracks 1 & 26 composed by Ron Grainer, realised by Delia Derbyshire 14 Humbug 1.25 (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) (Warner/Chappell Music) 15 The P45 Return Route 1.08 Compiled, produced and mastered by Mark Ayres DUDLEY SIMPSON On behalf of the late Dudley Simpson, his family is thrilled that his music is keeping his memory alive and would like to thank Mark Ayres for his passion and commitment towards Dudley’s work. - The Simpson Family THE SUN MAKERS Dudley Simpson’s first contribution to of the band. It is a shame therefore that memorable scores. It’s not Genesis of the scores were recorded “as live”, with Doctor Who was his music for Planet only two complete scores from this era Daleks, or Pyramids of Mars, or The Brain minimal retakes as necessary. Overdubs of Giants (starring William Hartnell as survive. One is The Mind of Evil, one of of Morbius, or City of Death, all of which were very rare. the first Doctor) in 1964. By the end of those EMS scores from 1971; the other is are long-gone. Yet it starts with one of the 1960s he was the programme’s “go the one you are listening to now, The Sun his most distinctive little riffs, features The exact identities of the wind and brass to” composer and, by my reckoning, he Makers from 1977. (in “Nobody Works Today”) a variation players for these sessions are lost in time, scored a total of 294 episodes up until on his “the Doctor at work” theme, and but let’s give a shout out for some of the his last, The Horns of Nimon, in 1979. It’s The Sun Makers tapes only survive by otherwise bears all of Dudley’s wonderful regular players anyway where we can a shame that Shada was cancelled, or it accident. The programme’s regular trade-marks of the period. remember them: Frank Reidy and Roy would have been a nice round 300. Special Sounds man (whom we would Willox on winds, Ian Harper on horn. There now call its “sound designer”), Dick Mills, It’s scored for just six musicians: two were others. Recordings tended to take Looking purely at the 1970s, was on his annual holiday, so his colleague clarinetists (playing the full range of place at the Television Music Studio at encompassing the episodes starring Jon Paddy Kingsland took over. Paddy didn’t Bb Clarinet, Bass and Contrabass), two Lime Grove, with the likes of Len Shorey Pertwee as the third Doctor and Tom realise that the banded master tapes of French horns, one percussionist, and or Mike McCarthy at the desk. Such was Baker as the fourth (seasons 7 to 17) there music and effects were supposed to be Yamaha organ. The organ (hired in Dudley’s orchestration (which should be were 58 stories over 272 episodes, with left at the sound dub to be archived by regularly for these sessions), was a three- studied), the quality of the players, and Dudley scoring 51 (234 episodes). That’s BBC Enterprises (who would subsequently manual-plus-pedals affair played by the the beautifully mic’d recording (I just love an amazing body of work; and that’s just lose them), with only a copy of the effects extraordinary Leslie Pearson. It provides the close microphones on the clarinets), Doctor Who, let alone Blake’s Seven, going back to the Radiophonic Workshop additional woodwind and brass textures it’s a lovely big sound for such a small Moonbase 3, Target, Paul Temple, library. Instead, he took all the tapes with (particularly tuba), faux strings, sustains band. The Tomorrow People, The Brothers him back to Maida Vale, where I found and additional percussion, and tremolo and many, many more. He started that them when doing the inventory in 1997 effects (the lovely Yamaha “repeat” It’s a shame that Dudley is no longer with period on Doctor Who using a very small after the Workshop had closed down. effect). The percussionist was Tristan Fry, us to hear this. He died on 4th November orchestra, moved into working entirely at who - such is his extraordinary dexterity - 2017, aged 95. His legacy is huge, however, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on EMS If one is honest, despite its steeped-in- must have trained with octopi (timpani, and it’s a privilege to be able to present synthesisers for a year (assisted by Brian satire script by the great Robert Holmes vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, this recording, now. Hodgson), then added percussion, then and a couple of lovely guest turns, The cymbals, tambourine etc). Dudley back to a small band with Radiophonic Sun Makers is not perhaps one of the tended to arrange his sessions around - Mark Ayres, April 2019. synth overdubs, until his final few Doctor’s most memorable adventures. the availability of these two gentlemen episodes where the synth became part Nor does it have one of Dudley’s most - incredible readers, both - and these Written by Robert Holmes Produced by Graham Williams Directed by Pennant Roberts Starring Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor With Louise Jameson as Leela Transmitted on BBC1, 26/11/1977-17/12/1977 Executive Producers for Silva Screen Records Ltd: Reynold D’Silva and David Stoner Digital Manager James Borrer Sleeve Illustration by Clayton Hickman Design Layout by Stuart Ford SILCD1569 Original music recorded in 1977. Ⓟ & © 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Limited under exclusive licence to Silva Screen Records Limited. All rights reserved. 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