1M1 Records
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1M1 Records is an Australia
n record label
formed in 1988
as oneMone Records, to promote and archive Australian film soundtrack
s. It was the creation of Australian film music recording producers Philip Powers and James McCarthy, both of whom were previously Director of Music at the Australian government filmmaking organisation Film Australia.
1M1 Records first film soundtrack release was in 1988, For the Term of His Natural Life
(1982), an Australian television miniseries starring actors Anthony Perkins
, Colin Friels
, Patrick Macnee
and Samantha Eggar
. The music was composed and conducted by Simon Walker
and the CD was produced for release by Philip Powers and Simon Walker.
1M1 Records film soundtrack releases include amongst them the music of Brian May
, Bruce Smeaton
, Peter Best, Philippe Sarde, Bill Conti
, Nigel Westlake
, Carl Vine
, Mario Millo
and The Flying Doctors
miniseries soundtrack by Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone.
In 1989 they released two soundtracks, Sky Pirates and Thirst. They also released two classical recordings that year, Music for Pianos, Percussion and Synthesizers (Guy Gross, Philip Powers, Mark Isaacs, Chris Neal and Simon Walker
) featuring contemporary classical compositions by five Australian film composers, and Victoria's Missa Surge Propera with the Sydney, Australia, choir of Christchurch St. Laurence.
In recent times they have released the music by Bruce Smeaton
for Summerfield and Eliza Fraser, Bill Conti's score for The Coolangatta Gold and the soundtrack of the animated Australian musical which starred Peter Ustinov
, Grendel, Grendel, Grendel, also with music by Bruce Smeaton
, and lyrics by Alexander Stitt.
Other releases include Australian film soundtracks for The Missing and The Great Macarthy by Bruce Smeaton
, Caddie
and The Celluloid Heroes (Nigel Westlake
). Numerous other Australian soundtracks have been made available through them including Jindabyne, The Book of Revelation, Danny Deckchair
, Two Hands, The Wog Boy, Mr. Accident, Strange Bedfellows, Gone, 48 Shades, Clubland, Look Both Ways, Fresh Air, No Worries and Romulus, My Father. More information about the entire spectrum of Australian soundtracks is available from Australian Television Memorabilia Guide and the 1M1 Records website.
As of 2006 there have been 32 CD releases by 1M1 Records.
What makes the company particularly unique in Australian film music is their access to some of the rarest of all Australian soundtracks, both on CD as well as LP. This comes with a price, but where else can you find famed Australian classical composer Peter Sculthorpe
's epic Burke & Wills score, Robbery Under Arms or Australian jazz great, John Sangster
's Fluteman vinyl pressing, never reissued on CD, with Don Burrows
performing the Fluteman's onscreen playing; or even a track listing of these rare scores? In March 2007 they added LP soundtracks to their catalogue for films like Starstruck
, The Chain Reaction and Emoh Ruo, virtually lost Australian scores.
In 2008 a significant compilation CD from Australian film soundtracks was released, featuring previously unreleased music from Incident at Ravensgate, Grievous Bodily Harm, Time Guardian and Snapshot. It was named, The Antony I Ginnane Collection, after the famous Australian Producer featured in the documentary about Australian exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s called Not Quite Hollywood
.
For the Term of His Natural Life (Simon Walker
), Sky Pirates, Thirst, Bloodmoon (Brian May
), Wendy Cracked a Walnut (Bruce Smeaton
), Devil in the Flesh (Philippe Sarde), Patrick, Roadgames, Harlequin, The Survivor, The Day After Halloween (aka. Snap Shot), Race for the Yankee Zephyr (Brian May
), Robbery Under Arms, The Flying Doctors (TV miniseries), Second Time Lucky (Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone), The Lighthorsemen (Mario Millo), We of the Never Never, The Leaving of Liverpool (Peter Best) and beDevil (Carl Vine).
Australian soundtracks licensed to 1M1 Records, and released and distributed by 1M1 Records on compact disc:
Annie's Coming Out (Simon Walker
), The Celluloid Heroes (Nigel Westlake), The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Brian May) and The Great Macarthy (Bruce Smeaton
), Film and TV Themes of Bruce Smeaton
, The Coolangatta Gold (Bill Conti
), Dad and Dave On Our Selection (Peter Best), Eliza Fraser and Summerfield (Bruce Smeaton
), The Last of the Mohicans
and Tom Sawyer
(Simon Walker
), The Pickwick Papers (Simon Walker
) and Grendel Grendel Grendel
(Bruce Smeaton
) and The Antony I Ginnane Collection - Australia Film Themes Vol. 2 (Brian May
, Peter Best
, Allan Zavod, Graham Tardif, Chris Neal).
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
formed in 1988
1988 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....
as oneMone Records, to promote and archive Australian film soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
s. It was the creation of Australian film music recording producers Philip Powers and James McCarthy, both of whom were previously Director of Music at the Australian government filmmaking organisation Film Australia.
1M1 Records first film soundtrack release was in 1988, For the Term of His Natural Life
For the Term of his Natural Life
For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 , appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history...
(1982), an Australian television miniseries starring actors Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion and as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho , and its three sequels.-Early life:...
, Colin Friels
Colin Friels
-Background and training:Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a mill worker and his father a joiner. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows...
, Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee
Patrick Macnee is an English actor, best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the series The Avengers.-Early life:...
and Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar
Samantha Eggar is an English film, television and voice actress.-Early life:She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London to an Anglo-Irish father and a mother of Dutch and Portuguese descent...
. The music was composed and conducted by Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
and the CD was produced for release by Philip Powers and Simon Walker.
1M1 Records film soundtrack releases include amongst them the music of Brian May
Brian May (Australia)
Brian May was an Australian film composer. His best known scores are those for Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.- Biography :...
, Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
, Peter Best, Philippe Sarde, Bill Conti
Bill Conti
William "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...
, Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake
-Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...
, Carl Vine
Carl Vine
Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...
, Mario Millo
Mario Millo
Mario Daniel Millo is an Australian musician and composer from Sydney, he was a member of symphonic rock group Sebastian Hardie from 1973 to their disbandment in 1977. Their debut album, Four Moments peaked at No. 13 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. He has had a solo career...
and The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia....
miniseries soundtrack by Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone.
In 1989 they released two soundtracks, Sky Pirates and Thirst. They also released two classical recordings that year, Music for Pianos, Percussion and Synthesizers (Guy Gross, Philip Powers, Mark Isaacs, Chris Neal and Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
) featuring contemporary classical compositions by five Australian film composers, and Victoria's Missa Surge Propera with the Sydney, Australia, choir of Christchurch St. Laurence.
In recent times they have released the music by Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
for Summerfield and Eliza Fraser, Bill Conti's score for The Coolangatta Gold and the soundtrack of the animated Australian musical which starred Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...
, Grendel, Grendel, Grendel, also with music by Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
, and lyrics by Alexander Stitt.
Other releases include Australian film soundtracks for The Missing and The Great Macarthy by Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
, Caddie
Caddie (film)
Caddie is an Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade....
and The Celluloid Heroes (Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake
-Biography:Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades.He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music.Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe,...
). Numerous other Australian soundtracks have been made available through them including Jindabyne, The Book of Revelation, Danny Deckchair
Danny Deckchair
Danny Deckchair is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. The majority of Danny Deckchair was shot in Bellingen, a Mid North Coast town in New South Wales....
, Two Hands, The Wog Boy, Mr. Accident, Strange Bedfellows, Gone, 48 Shades, Clubland, Look Both Ways, Fresh Air, No Worries and Romulus, My Father. More information about the entire spectrum of Australian soundtracks is available from Australian Television Memorabilia Guide and the 1M1 Records website.
As of 2006 there have been 32 CD releases by 1M1 Records.
What makes the company particularly unique in Australian film music is their access to some of the rarest of all Australian soundtracks, both on CD as well as LP. This comes with a price, but where else can you find famed Australian classical composer Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
's epic Burke & Wills score, Robbery Under Arms or Australian jazz great, John Sangster
John Sangster
John Sangster was an Australian jazz composer, arranger, drummer, cornettist and Vibraphonist born in Melbourne, most well known as a composer though also a gifted multi-instrumentalist...
's Fluteman vinyl pressing, never reissued on CD, with Don Burrows
Don Burrows
Donald Vernon Burrows, AO, MBE is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute....
performing the Fluteman's onscreen playing; or even a track listing of these rare scores? In March 2007 they added LP soundtracks to their catalogue for films like Starstruck
Starstruck (1982 film)
Starstruck is a 1982 Australian comedy-drama musical film starring Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan and Margo Lee about two teenagers trying to make their break into the music industry. The film was shot on location in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, The Chain Reaction and Emoh Ruo, virtually lost Australian scores.
In 2008 a significant compilation CD from Australian film soundtracks was released, featuring previously unreleased music from Incident at Ravensgate, Grievous Bodily Harm, Time Guardian and Snapshot. It was named, The Antony I Ginnane Collection, after the famous Australian Producer featured in the documentary about Australian exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s called Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 Australian documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and '80s low-budget cinema...
.
Awards
1M1 Records has been nominated for four ARIA Awards, two in the soundtrack area and two in the classical area.Catalogue
Australian soundtracks licensed to oneMone Records, and released and distributed by oneMone Records on compact disc:For the Term of His Natural Life (Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
), Sky Pirates, Thirst, Bloodmoon (Brian May
Brian May (Australia)
Brian May was an Australian film composer. His best known scores are those for Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.- Biography :...
), Wendy Cracked a Walnut (Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
), Devil in the Flesh (Philippe Sarde), Patrick, Roadgames, Harlequin, The Survivor, The Day After Halloween (aka. Snap Shot), Race for the Yankee Zephyr (Brian May
Brian May (Australia)
Brian May was an Australian film composer. His best known scores are those for Mad Max and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.- Biography :...
), Robbery Under Arms, The Flying Doctors (TV miniseries), Second Time Lucky (Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone), The Lighthorsemen (Mario Millo), We of the Never Never, The Leaving of Liverpool (Peter Best) and beDevil (Carl Vine).
Australian soundtracks licensed to 1M1 Records, and released and distributed by 1M1 Records on compact disc:
Annie's Coming Out (Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
), The Celluloid Heroes (Nigel Westlake), The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Brian May) and The Great Macarthy (Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
), Film and TV Themes of Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
, The Coolangatta Gold (Bill Conti
Bill Conti
William "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...
), Dad and Dave On Our Selection (Peter Best), Eliza Fraser and Summerfield (Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
), The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known...
and Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Tom Sawyer Abroad , and Tom Sawyer, Detective .Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom...
(Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
), The Pickwick Papers (Simon Walker
Simon Walker
Born in 1961 in Sydney, NSW. Australian composer of numerous film and television soundtracks including For the Term of His Natural Life. The first available soundtrack of his music was The Wild Duck on the Southern Cross label, and other releases include his AFI Award-nominated score for Annie's...
) and Grendel Grendel Grendel
Grendel Grendel Grendel
Grendel Grendel Grendel is an Australian animated film based on John Gardner's novel Grendel and starring Peter Ustinov. It was released in 1981....
(Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer, well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres - features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron...
) and The Antony I Ginnane Collection - Australia Film Themes Vol. 2 (Brian May
Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...
, Peter Best
Peter Best (composer)
Peter Best is an award-winning Australian film composer who has contributed to such films as Doing Time for Patsy Cline , Muriel's Wedding , Crocodile Dundee , Crocodile Dundee II , Bliss and The Adventures of Barry McKenzie...
, Allan Zavod, Graham Tardif, Chris Neal).