Behind The BHTs

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Outside of the fact they were created by Canucks, who in DIC's universe composed the music for The Beverly Hills Teens, as well as did the character designs and creations for the said show?:confused:
 
IIRC, the music for Beverly Hills Teens, and almost everything DIC put out in those days, was done by Shuki Levy & Haim Saban, the latter of whom parlayed those tunes into a pretty good run as a producer himself.
 
He's the guy who brought Power Rangers to America, and his company provided programming for Fox Kids, before Disney bought said company.

I met his niece!
 
Saban? That guy and his partner Shuki Levy composed soundtracks to The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Inspector Gadget, The Littles, The Real Ghostbusters, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. I was surprised to learn the Saban and Levy had a record label in France. Said record company released soundtracks from the previously mentions shows.

Haim Saban went on to be a producer of Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. Shuki Levy I think holds the world's record for composing theme music for TV shows.
 
Uh... One of them, I think Saban, is from Egypt, actually. But I'm not 100% sure.

I really did love their ultra-80's TV soundtracks though (soundtrack, as in music used for the show, as the albums were never released in the US). I think they had some of the most inviggorating music used for cartoons. Gadget certainly had some cool tracks.
 
I wasn't trying to be offensive, far from it. I was just amazed at what the French could do, as evidenced by Rocket Robin Hood, Totally Spies, Code Lyoko, et al. So.......soundtrack albums never available in the states......even before the advent of cartoon and anime soundtracks.......that would've been a fantastic trend, given the rumor that the Grammys were maybe opening up a catagory of game soundtracks. Just think if cartoon soundtracks had been a hit worldwide. But that is just me.
 
Well, Gadget has many creators, actually. But some of them were French. Andy Heyward I always thought was from the US. But since DIC was a French studio at the time, no wonder why the record lable was almost France exclusive... though, quite a few other cartoons (both American and Japanese) had French albums, as I've mentioned many a time.
 
Most soundtracks for western cartoons I've been able to find tend to be French. Inspector Gadget has a soundtrack album but that's one of hardest soundtracks to find. The largest cartoon soundtrack I've ever seen for a western cartoon is the Mysterious Cities of Gold but I've only seen the French soundtrack. If you're looking for a soundtrack for a cartoon, there's a good change of being a French release. Also, many songs for those soundtracks have lyrics. I was surprised to learn that Penny's theme from Inspector Gadget has lyrics to it.
 
Haim Saban is a mountain of a man. He's tall. Met him when he came to the 757 many moons ago back when he, on behalf of Fox Kids Worldwide, announced they were buying The Family Channel, which still has a relay station here in its ABC Family incarnation.

Pat Robertson gave me the evil eye that day. Can't forget that.

Though Mr. Saban doesn't own any of the shows he helped produced, he still holds copyrights to many of the soundtracks and themes he and Shuki Levy composed over the decades. He's still rich as hell to this date.

Andy Heyward didn't create Inspector Gadget. That honor, I believe, goes to Jean Chaplain, though don't hold me to that. Mr. Heyward was approached to represent DiC in the US because of his years of experience in animation.
 
Just like the soundtracks for vid games, all available only in Japan, yet imported copies can be found in mail order places and in anime and otaku specialty stores. Pity the same can't be said for DIC's stuff; you may have to fly to France for that so, good luck.

P.S.: Whover created the other toons, The BHTs included, must be a genius.
 
Well, it really depends on the company. Disney did release a CD with opening themes for the Disney Afternoon shows. Unfortunately, you could only get that from Walt Disney World. I've never seen it but I know it has extended versions of Ducktales and Gummi Bears opening songs.

You may be able to get those French soundtracks by ordering from sites that sale French records and CDs. That is, if you don't mind paying in euros.

As for the guy who created BHT, think Craig Zukowski created that show.
 
Yeah, as I said, I didn't think you were being malicious, but saying "that's good, for a bunch of french dudes" implies that french people are capable of less, like saying "wow, that's pretty good... for a girl" suggests that girls are less capable (which they're obviously not)...

(I don't want to make a big deal out of this, especially since I myself wasn't even offended, just trying to explain my point)
 
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