Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series

[BiteUrLip]

Music: Elton John, Bernie Taupin

Electric harpsichord: Elton John

Bass: Kenny Passarelli

Drums: Roger Pope

Acoustic guitars: Caleb Quaye

Electric piano and synthesizer: James Newton-Howard

Glockenspiel and marimba: Ray Cooper

(instrumental)

[BiteUrLip]

Eltonography shows Bernie as a composer on this one, is that the reason why it is so bad?

2 stars.

[newloneranger]

Catchy little tune, just filler tho, could be longer maybe.

3 stars

[dougs]

"Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series" from BLUE MOVES:

A rather up-tempo instrumental driven partly by Elton's electric harpsichord.  Elton used to play quite a variety of keyboards, aside from piano, in his 1973 to 1976 era and this was one of those tunes.  "Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series" actually won Elton an Ivor Novello Award in 1977.  The Ivor Novello is England's equivalent to America's Grammy.  The song set up "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" nicely as an end to BLUE MOVES.  After a number of more introspective and slow tempo songs on side 4 of BLUE MOVES, "Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series" set up the rocking last song..."Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)."  A real band song as (almost) everyone plays a role in this instrumental.  Elton gave Bernie co-writing credits for this and for "Out of the Blue" which was a lengthier more rock instrumental on BLUE MOVES.  Bernie "may" not have been a part of the writing process on these two instrumentals but Elton shared the co-writing credits thereby sharing the income across the album.

Rating:  4 1/2 stars

Doug

[Commodore Orpington]

I like this one a lot, as a key part of the resolution to Blue Moves.

[rocketman]

3.5 stars...Nice little instrumental, I'd go 3.75 if that kind of rating existed, but it doesn't. So it's Non-Existent.

Not as good as the opener, Your Starter For...but not bad.