[Dr. Jacoby]

Short answer to your question: Music is organized sound. Period. The “tonalities” thing was forced by the musicians union.

But that is not the reason that I am replying. I have a crazy Charles Fox story:

Between LPs and CDs, we must have close to 10K albums, all kinds of crazy genres.

Anyway, among all these albums, there are handful that are singular and do not sound like anything else. One of these is the Barbarella soundtrack, which if I were one to make lists, would easily make my top-100-albums-of-all-time-in-any-genre list. I initially associated it with Bob Crewe, and did not know the name Charles Fox.

Anyway, years and years after having Barbarella, I’m buying LPs at the flea market, and I come across the H.R. Pufnstuf film soundtrack on Capitol, by Charles Fox. I don’t know Charles Fox. I give it scrub on the trusted Nitty Gritty, and spin it. There are four instrumentals on the album, and I’m thinking, “Wow, this totally sounds like Barbarella music! And I figured out that Charles Fox was the connective thread.

I can’t think of another such extreme example of composer/artist recognition happening to me.