CBS COLLECTION 072 UCLA - Film Score Rundowns

to make copies of materials in the CBS Collection and provide such copies to individuals
and institutions for educational and/or personal purposes…” I happily took advantage of
this opportunity in the first several months or so when the collection was open to the
public. And I’m glad I did, because before you knew it, UCLA decided to ignore this
permission from Harry, and change its policy to refuse photocopying of music scores
unless you got specific permission from CBS to xerox a specific score. Normally
documents such as cue sheets (words) were allowed to be xeroxed, but not music scores
as a general rule. I managed to xerox much of Herrmann’s scores already identified and
located in the boxes such as the Twilight Zone episodes, several of the old CBS radio
scores from the Forties generally (Corwin, etc.), Gunsmoke episodes, some of the Outer
Space Suite, Ethan Allen, and so on. The scores I discovered later on over the years that
were un-inventoried (such as Police Force) I laboriously hand-copied.
As given earlier, towards the end of this paper I will insert several pages of my
detailed personal account of the difficulties I had with the old SPFM management
regarding the CBS transcription discs (and later Dats format) that it had in its possession
(but not ownership). Read it if you want a short history of how I was instrumental in
getting this music back to UCLA where it belonged.
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Now: As a general rule, the CBS Music Library of cues are organized in the
following seasons (fall thru spring) associated with a certain numeral classification:
VII (7) = 1956-1957 Season [Binders # 38-39]
VIII (8) = 1957-1958 Season [Binders 40-41]
IX (9) = 1958-1959 Season [Binders 42-43]
X (10) = 1959-1960 Season [Binders 44-45]
XI (11) = 1960-1961 Season [Binders 46-47]
XII (12) = 1961-1962 Season [Binders 48-49]
XIII (13) = 1962-1963 Season [Binders 50-51]
At the long period of my research there, and until relatively recently, there were a
series of binders for these Music Library cues (and other CBS materials). Normally the
binders were stored in the B-425 Special Collectors Reading Room (cramped in there as
it was already!). At the time, there were two binders for each Season/Numeral starting
with CBS VII: the larger black binder systematically described each and every cue
classified in specific reel numbers; and the smaller companion red binder that detailed
cues under composers’ names. Relatively rarely in CBS cue sheets I would find
references to CBS VI (6) cues, although I have never found a binder or otherwise series
of listings derived from the VI season (ostensibly 1955-56). It would make sense that
there should be because Gunsmoke started in 1955. I have never seen a Gunsmoke cue
sheet of any episode from that first season, but I do have Twilight Zone cue sheets that
occasionally indicate CBS VI cues. Here are most or all of the examples of such CBS VI
cues listed in Twilight Zone episodes from the first three seasons:
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