David Vincent 8 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I recently discovered in the 1997 Star Wars special edition booklet that the day I born, 5th March 1977, John Williams was recording for the first time the Star Wars Main Title Overture.It is surprising that the opening day of the recording session was a Saturday, but it is really funny it was my birthday. What do you think John Williams was doing the day, the month or the year you born ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I dunno....composing The Witches of Eastwick, I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Williams composed E.T. 1982. And he was also composing Monsignor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Smoking a cigar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Jan 29 1988. Go figure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Composing Temple of Doom?Working on the Upcoming Olimpic games? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Composing my favorite score actually, Return of the jedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Whatever he was doing in 1985. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholas 1 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I know exactly what he was doing. Sitting at my mother's bedside, anxiously holding her hand as she pushed...You see.... John Williams .... is.... my father.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Composing my favorite score actually, Return of the jedi.Mmmm arent you the same age as me, and zodiacal sign cancer too?Jedi was composed late 1982, wasnt it?...recording sessions feb-march 1983 as with the other SW movies?Sorry to spoil the fun but i was jealous! TOD is fine though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Yeah, I'm also a Cancer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Yeah, I'm also a Cancer Yeah, do we Cancers actually get cancer? It's had me concerned my whole life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Or do we get 69? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 What was doing John Williams? Hopefully his wife or some hot chick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Or do we get 69?Now you're talkin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Well I've hunted around JWFan and it looks like all Williams wrote during my birth year was the theme to the last season of The Virginian. Hmmm, I'm not sure how to take that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Working on the score for SpaceCamp, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futuremartymcfly 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I guess either recording Far and Away, or composing Home Alone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixers 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 What was doing John Williams? Hopefully his wife or some hot chick.Or maybe a hot violin playing chick.Those violins are sexy! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashinyobject 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 i believe he was resting on my birthday. you see, the night before he premiered "We're Looking Good" and "A Hymn to New England" with the Boston Pops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Probably working or about to start working on Dracula. Maybe that's why I like it so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melisande 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Aww, someone already did the "doing John Williams" joke End of 1979. Too early for Empire, too late for 1941 or Dracula? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indiana_Fett 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I guess any of these.1991 - JFK1991 - Hook1990 - Home Alone1990 - Presumed Innocent1990 - Stanley & Iris I love Hook and Home Alone was my favorite score growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanticStrings 10 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 June 29th, 1986. Who knows? I couldn't find on this website when SpaceCamp was scored, and I bet The Witches Of Eastwick was scored at the earliest in late '86, if not sometime in '87. So, he was just enjoying himself somewhere, I'm sure, except that he must have felt some tingling or foreboding at 10:58 A.M. ET, but he probably couldn't place it at the time. If only he knew...~Conor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 He was working on Lost in Space.K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth 67 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Working on the score for SpaceCamp, I guess.That's what I would say as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixers 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Home Alone was my favorite score growing up. Mine too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 He was hearing his newly-composed piece "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" on NBC, and wondering if he'd ever have the chance to write for the Olympics again.Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 For 1981, he did two scores.Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Heartbeeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 For 1981, he did two scores.Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Heartbeeps.Me too, although Raiders had already been released when I was born, so he was probably doing nothing, maybe beginning to think about E.T.And to think I've never heard a single note of Heartbeeps, oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuttersteps 1 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 May 20, 1977.So the Maestro was probably hotly anticipating how his symphonic score for this space opera would be received later in the week.Naw, more likely he was sitting at the piano going through all 250,000 permutations to identify the best alien-greeting melody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 In June , 1966 he was just finishing the recording session of Not with MY Wife , You Don't...It was very hot and humid day , I can still recall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Vincent 234 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I think Williams was composing or recording Jaws 2 when I was born (April 24, 1978). That's 28 years ago this monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonblueeyes 0 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 May 28 1975...I guess he was putting Finishing touches on Jaws if it wasn't already completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,692 Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Working on the score for SpaceCamp, I guess.That's what I would say as well.Me too....unfortunately.You know, I first read the thread title as 'what were you doing when John Williams was born?'. That would have got some interesting answers 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Well, since my Grandmother was 12 the year Williams was born, I suppose I wasn't doing much of anything.Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus 390 Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I think he had possibly just finished "Dracula"? (October 14th, 1979) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 He was probably working on Hook when I was born (November 26th, 1990), or he was reveling in his own genious, or maybe both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Celebrating the birth of his first child down the pub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Recording sessions for Empire Strikes Back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor 797 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 April 26 1975... Scoring Jaws? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scissorhands 16 Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Writing E.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Longbottom 0 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I was born in the year of Fiddler on the Roof (March 31, 1971).Roman.-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo 0 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Whatever he was doing on September 28th, 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Whatever he was doing in 1985.I'd have to agree with Drax, that this is what he was doing when I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Whatever he was doing around august 1983 :S Olympics? ROTJ? TOD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Whatever he was doing around august 1983 ROTJ?ROTJ may not be in cinemas already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morn 8 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Really? When is the film going to be released then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,795 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 i knew there was something wrong in the grammar there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deimos 0 Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Whatever he was doing around august 1983 :S Olympics? ROTJ? TOD?Hey, same here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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