Sylvester Levay

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  www.mfiles.co.uk/reviews/airwolf-soundtrack-themes.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/27/2008    Last Visited: 1/18/2009  

  The series had a highly memorable theme tune by composer Sylvester Levay who also created the distinctive music for the majority of the show's episodes.A number of episodes were scored by Udi Harpaz and there were a couple of composers who filled in on occasional episodes, so by and large the sonic shape of the series came from Levay and Harpaz.
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  Further hard work was required to establish the rights to record the music, and Cairns also tracked down Sylvester Levay himself to create some additional (orchestral) tracks for a special double album release.
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  For a self-taught musician, Mark J Cairns has created a remarkable album which showcases not only his own talents but those of composers Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz.

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  Published on: 10/10/2000    Last Visited: 6/30/2008  

  Officially-licensed AIRWOLF soundtrack CD for the TV series by original composer SYLVESTER LEVAY and produced by superfan, MARK CAIRNS

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  Published on: 3/19/2006    Last Visited: 1/5/2009  

  All MP3 theme tune files remain the Copyright of Mark J.Cairns and Sylvester Levay © 2007.
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  The soundtrack was created over a five year period by "Airwolf" Superfan, Northern Ireland-based graphic designer, Mark J. Cairns in collaboration with original composer Sylvester Levay, with a Foreword by the series' creator, Donald P. Bellisario (Tales Of The Gold Monkey, Magnum P.I., Quantum Leap, J.A.G., N.C.I.S.).
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  Finding original composer, Sylvester Levay But by early 1997, Cairns had felt there was something lacking in the production - the mainly orchestral themes, so a search was made (in the very early days of the Internet) for both the show's two main original composers, Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz.
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  Levay had left Hollywood in the early nineties to move to Germany and Harpaz had moved back to Israel, so tracking them down had proven difficult to this point until Cairns found an on-line discussion fan forum for the first of Levay's musicals, 'Elisabeth', allowing him and fellow producer, Gerry R. Forrester to finally make initial contact.
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  They subsequently contracted Levay to create three special bonus medleys which would be mainly orchestral-based scores, composed and arranged from his character-driven 1st Season works from the Airwolf series. Levay then used the 80-piece Munich Philharmonic orchestra during a recording session on 29th November, 1998 at SL Studios in Neuhausen, Germany.
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  'Special Bonus CD2 by Sylvester Levay'
  
  Main Theme -- Extended Aerial ("Red Star Test Run" -- 'PILOT' Film Version) (3:35)

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  Published on: 10/27/2002    Last Visited: 3/10/2009  

  As it happens, the final version was done by the same arranger, Sylvester Levay, who did his first composition with me, "Fly, Robin, Fly.
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  Sylvester worked in the movies and he was trained to serve a story as a film composer.

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  Published on: 3/19/2006    Last Visited: 3/25/2007  

  I searched worldwide (with no World Wide Web back then) for the official soundtrack from the show's two original composers -- Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz -- but no, nothing... just three horrible renditions on "television albums" -- one by the Britsh Power Pack Orchestra, the second arranged by Daniel Caine, again in England (used on about four albums since!) and the third was probably the strongest incarnation with the Japanese Airwolf / Knight Rider CD. but none of them were original arrangements.
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  I felt nobody understood the show's Main Theme as well as I did, probably as well as Sylvester Levay himself.
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  I got a reply from Sylvester in June 1992, but he'd obviously moved on to other projects, and basically nobody had come up with the required huge licence fees for MCA / Universal to release the original Airwolf soundtrack.
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  When we originally approached MCA Music Ltd in London we were told that we'd have to find Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz to get their permission to do the project, which implied they'd somehow had the rights to the music... which was unusual, but in our ignorance of the full facts a frantic search for well over a year brought up nothing... until I got on "the Net" through my job.
  
  I couldn't find either of them, until I used a bit of lateral thinking through the search engines on the Net (Thank you 'Excite' and 'Alta Vista'!).Neither Sly nor Udi had done any TV or film work for over five years back then.This was not a good sign at the start!How would I find them now?
  
  Well, one day in March (1998), the search engine brought up a little gem of information that Sylvester had done a German-language musical in Austria called 'Elisabeth'... a huge hit there, on par with an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical here in the UK.
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  My producer then contacted him in April that year and, as it turns out, MCA had the sole rights to the music of AIRWOLF all along... we didn't need either Sylvester nor Udi's permission at all!!Arggghhhh!
  
  SNOWBALL THE PROJECT
  
  Well I felt 'let's make a good job from a set-back and snowball the project a little more', so I asked my Co-Executive Producer, Gerry R. Forrester to approach Sylvester with an offer to do a Special Bonus CD for the project... which made a long-time dream a reality.
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  I hit studio in mid-November 1998 and later April 1999 for post production and final pre-mastering -- of what was 22 episodic tracks on my CD, and 3 extended tracks conducted by Sylvester Levay with a FULL ORCHESTRA for his Special Bonus CD (just like the original 1st Season of the show).
  
  20-PAGE SOUVENIR BOOKLET + AIRWOLF ARTWORK
  
  The other advantage with me doing the project (apart from being a huge fan of Levay' and Harpaz' work) is that being a graphic designer by profession I did all the artwork myself and am probably the only person in the world who owns high-resolution vector artwork of both the Airwolf logotype and Wolf Insignia as well as a full [Apple Mac only] Postscript font of the "proper" Airwolf typeface (unlike the inferior PC rip-offs available for free on the Internet) -- again all recreated to fanatical perfection.

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  Best remembered for their disco smash "Fly Robin Fly," the Munich, Germany-based ensemble Silver Convention was formed by producers Silvester Levay and Michael Kunze, debuting in 1975 with the LP Save Me and scoring a U.K. hit with the title track.
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  After topping the American charts with "Fly Robin Fly," Levay and Kunze recruited a trio of vocalists -- Linda Thompson (not to be confused with the same-named singer and wife of guitarist Richard Thompson), Ramona Wulf, and Penny McLean -- who began appearing publicly under the Silver Convention banner; they were featured on the follow-up, "Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)," which was also a smash in 1976.

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  An ex-patriate residing in Munich, Germany and Palma de Mallorca, Spain most of her adult life, Madeleine made her mark in the disco-pop genre working with artists Englebert Humperdinck, Sydne Rome, Rick Astley, Hoyt Axton, Peggy March, Amanda Lear; producers Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Sylvester Levay, Michael Kunze, Leroy Burgess, Frank Farian, Anthony Monn, Pete Waterman, Horst Hornung, Ralph Siegel, and many others.

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  Published on: 1/12/2008    Last Visited: 1/12/2008  

  Sylvester LevaySoundtrackCollector: Composer Details: Sylvester Levay
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  View the filmo/discography of Sylvester Levay.

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  Published on: 8/27/2003    Last Visited: 8/25/2006  

  Writers: Silvester Levay, Stephan Prager
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  Arranger: Silvester Levay
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  (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real ñ Sylvester
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  With his outsize personality, image and talent, Sylvester was the living embodiment of discoís eclectic, all-inclusive underground of devotees, styles, and music.
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  "(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real" - Sylvester

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  Published on: 10/3/2004    Last Visited: 10/4/2005  

  Other German stars of the disco years include Silver Convention, the brainchild of producers Silvester Levay and Michael Kunze, with Fly Robin Fly (1975) and Get Up And Boogie (1976), and Boney M, the brainchild of producer Frank Farian, with Baby Do You Wanna Bump (1975) and Rasputin (1978).

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