Track Listing

1. Intro Music and Dialogue from "Episode One"
2. The Start Of "Music"
3. From "Visiting Friends"
4. Clangers running around the planet!
5. FRom "Fishing"
6. From "Treasure"
7. Some Musical Sequences
8. From "Goods"
9. An End Title
10. Tiny Clangers Radio Hat
11. Some Of Oliver's Special Clangers Effects including the Froglets
12. From "The Rock Collector"
13. From "Glowhoney"
14. From "Teapot"
15. From "Cloud"
16. From "The Seed"
17. From "The Bags"
18. From "Blow Fruit"
19. From "The Pipe Organ"
20. From "The Music of the Spheres"
21. A short, silent interval
22. A Clangers Opera, Act One. Compiled by Oliver Postgate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47076 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The enchanting world of the Clangers conjured much of its magic from the music that accompanied the series. The music was initially "drawn" by series creator Oliver Postgate and then turned into compositions by Vernon Elliot. It has been extremely well remastered here, and is, quite simply, lovely--it would make wonderful bedtime listening for tots. Separated from the pictures, it is possible to appreciate the music for itself, with its Debussian strains and gentle harp and flute exchanges. As the series progressed we can see the music's development into more complex pieces. Particularly beautiful are tracks 13 (from "Glowhoney") and 17 (from "The Bags"). Other favourites are tracks 10--"Tiny Clanger's radio hat" and 21--"A short silent interval". In addition, Oliver Postgate has compiled one act of A Clangers Opera, with singing from the little guys themselves and guest appearances from the Iron Chicken and the Soup Dragon. The story is the legendary episode of the the Iron Chicken and the Music Trees and is vocally well served by all the cast--Tiny Clanger displays particularly effortless coloratura--and is ably supported by Vernon Elliot in the pit. --Antonia Couling

Customer Reviews

The perfect music to chill out to.
I grew up with the Clangers and the music always seemed an integral part of the programme. This CD conjures up everything - the planet, the characters and the wonderful voice of Oliver Postgate. Get a glass or two of wine, light some candles and watch the sun set whilst you listen. I guarantee that you will feel better for it afterwards.

A trip down memory lane.
The Clangers sound track is a collection of all the music and sounds from the TV programme. The music has not been re-mastered and is in its original form. There is a 12 page booklet containing original drawings, photos and information. It's well worth every penny. If you watched The Clangers as a child I recommend you buy yourself a copy of the CD, sit back and relax to the sounds of the Clangers.

Tiny clanger's radio hat
This is lovely stuff; it's a minimalist, happy set of curious soundscapes, performed mostly on clarinet, harp, tinkly noises and bassoons. The production is very simple - it seems to have been recorded is a disused dance hall, and the sound is quite appealingly raw because of it - and although it's naughty to do so, it sounds even nicer if you add a lot of reverb.

The sleevenotes are as copious and ample as a nurse's bosom, and have a couple of photographs of the sadly late Vernon Elliot and lots of photographs of the clangers (plus two drawings). Elliot kept bees, and the impression I get throughout is of frightfully well-educated, clever types who became enthralled with stop-motion animation and children's television. I have met people like that; often the biggest geniuses and greatest men have odd obsessions, and it's fortunate that Elliot and series deviser Oliver Postage turned their talents to something harmless, rather than inventing poison gas or self-igniting petrol bombs or what-have-you.

I have to give it five stars, because it does exactly what it sets out to do; what appears to be all of the original music from the series, untouched and unaltered. To listen to it's quite pleasant as background music, and would work brilliantly coming out of an old valve radio at moderate volume, but it's rather monotonous, and the "Clangers opera" - which is essentially a short Clangers story without the visuals - doesn't really work, although if you leave it on in the background whilst entertaining guests they will probably ask you about it, and that could start up a conversation which might lead to romance and eventually marriage.

Of course, as I am not yet thirty the Clangers were years before my time.