Vernon Elliott Ensemble 'Ivor The Engine'

VERNON ELLIOTT ENSEMBLE

IVOR THE ENGINE

TRUNK

(DECEMBER 2007)

These 1960's children’s television soundtracks recall an age when youngsters were addressed as equals by eccentric puppeteers, rather than patronised by would-be glamour models, but it’s the music that really tugs the heartstrings.

Elliott’s chuffing little Ivor score relocates the American jazz composer Jimmy Giuffre’s Western Suite to the valleys, while the collections of Pogles cues entitled Magical Noises are Stockhausen’s Stimmung in miniature.

Trunk Records siphons the lost wellspring.

TRACKLISTING

1. Oliver Postgate Intro and Main Ivor Theme
2. Cruising Theme
3. Fast Theme
4. Donkey Theme
5. Cat's Theme
6. Ivor's Jig
7. Effects: Donkey Departing
8. Effects: Coal
9. Effects: Ivor chuffing
10. Elephant Walk
11. Land Of My Fathers
12. Effects: Ivor resists starting
13. Effects: Handling chain
14. Effects: Get Art Of It!
15. Oliver and Peter developing Ivor noises
16. Ivor short theme
17. Effects: Ivor parps POGLES
18. Intro by Oliver Postgate
19. 1 retake 3
20. Pogles Walk
21. Pogles Walk Brisk
22. Pogles Run Around Playing "He"
23. 7 Take 6
24. Apprehensive Music
25. Untitled Cue from Session One
26. Plant Growing
27. Pogle Into Witch's Theme
28. Effects: Magical Noises
29. Effects: Various Magic Noises
30. Organ Tune for Captions
31. 7 Take 2
32. C Take 1
33. King Of Diamonds
34. 7 Take 5
35. Untitled Cue From Session Two
36. 13 Number 1
37. 2 Take 1
38. Piccolo Attempt
39. Untitled Cue No.2 From Session Two