July 31, 2024

Blood on the Tracks Episode 78: Squatch Sounds.

1 hour 29 minutes

This month Lee takes a look at music from films about possibly the world's most famous cryptid, the Sasquatch - or as it/they are better known in pop and general culture: Bigfoot. There are just so many films, especially in the last thirty years or so, that the list is focused on the real peak period of interest, the 1970s and 1980s. Even then this list threatened to be much larger than it ended up being, but a lot of the music was impossible to source. Still, Lee feels this list is large enough to pay proper tribute to that mythical(?) hairy giant in the woods.

--Main Theme from "Bigfoot" (1970) --Richard Podolor

--The Legend of Boggy Creek from "The Legend of Boggy Creek" (1972) --Chuck Bryant & Earl E. Smith

--Popcorn from "Shriek of the Mutilated" (1974) --Hot Butter

--Ballad of McCullough's Mountain from "Blood Beast of Monster Mountain" (1975) --Tim York

--Exits and Truckstops from "Creature from Black Lake" (1976) --Jim McCullough Jr.

--High in the Mountains & Bigfoot Theme from "Sasquatch" (1976) --Lane Caudell & Al Capps

--Suite from "Snowbeast" (1977) --Robert Prince

--What's it Take to be a Believer from "In the Shadow of Big Foot" (1977) --Phillip Malbrough

--Main Title from "Return to Boggy Creek" (1977) --Darrell Deck

--Yeti from "Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century" (1977) --Sante Maria Romitelli feat. The Yetians

--My Spirit Runs Free from "The Capture of Bigfoot" (1979) --Mitch Irish with The Friends

--Sensuous Tiger from "The Capture of Bigfoot" (1979) --Mitch Irish & Patty Holzmann with The Friends

--Suite from "Night of the Demon" (1980) --Dennis McCarthy

--Love Lives On from "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987) --Joe Cocker

--Keep on Climbing from "Cry Wilderness" (1987) --Ralph Ives(?)

--Main & End Titles from "Demon Warp" (1988) --Dan Slider

Opening and closing music: Main Title from "Battle Beyond the Stars" by James Horner, and Main Theme from "The Final Terror" by Susan Justin.

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