People have been wondering what Siday composed the SFH music on; I think this will help:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/studiobam/Moog/Moogs_of_Eric_Siday/

Also, the first notes are definitely synth, most likely run through a spring reverb. The arpeggios sound like muted trumpets, and are most likely real because that's a sound a synthesizer can't really reproduce well.

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Hi,

I am going to revamp all about the history of the "S from Hell" logo used from 1965-74. Why?
There was one other variant of the 1973 subversion of the logo: this one has the Columbia Pictures byline, but it doesn't appear until the Screen Gems logo and text animation come to a stop.

See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-_dPzP_74

1965-1970: Gold BG, red "S," six-note synthesizer jingle
1967-1968: As above, but with different music (a seven-note horn jingle); seen only on Batfink
1970-1973: Gold BG, brown "S," three-note synthesizer jingle (another variation uses the 1965 colors). A still version was known to have been seen on the 1st season of Police Story (at least the pilot episode).
1973-1974: As 1970, with "A Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc." byline (another variation, again, uses the 1965 colors). Yet another variation, at least on some of the five episodes of the QBVII miniseries (Screen Gems' last series ever as a television production company), has the byline appearing after the company logo/text animation stop.

Music/Sound Differences:
*For 1970, the synthesizer jingle was edited so only three tones came before the arpeggios.
*Another jingle for this logo in the 1965-70 period was known to exist which used the same instruments as the early '60s NBC jingle.
*The trumpet version was used on this logo only when seen at the end of Batfink.
*A totally silent version of the logo was seen on the 1971 version of Brian's Song (which starts with the 1968 Columbia Pictures movie logo).

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AAAAH! It's scary! Not.

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On the voice-over variant for Screen Gems/Herbert B. Leonard variant, it should be Hal Gibney announcing on that one, for Leonard became executive producer starting with Route 66 in its first season in 1960-61. Naked City returned that same season after a one year hiatus, expanded to an hour, but Leonard was only the producer on that series until the middle of the next season when he became executive producer as well on that show.

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I do beleieve that the voice of Screen Gems was that of Hal Gibney, who was an NBC radio announcer who was best known for working on the radio-tv versions of Dragnet. There's also a variant on Naked City in all of season 2 and early season 3 where it went like this: "This has been a Screen Gems film presentation from Columbia Pictures, produced by Herbert B. Leonard". Then he would become that show's executive producer.

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Where are the videos?

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I've been trying to figure this out for a couple of years, but wasn't that the voice of Harry Cohn announcing on the Screen Gems logo #2? Because I know Cohn passed away in 1958.

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