[Graham Watt]

Hi all! I “think I know” quite a few of you here, from your FSM Board posts. Some of you will thus “think you know” a bit about me, for better or worse. But in case you don’t, a short introduction –

I’ve been into film scores since my early teens. Now in my sixth decade I feel comfortable as a kind of archaeologist, delving into so much material from my favourite time period (very roughly from around 1955 until about 1985). I have very little connection with the present. I am a man out of time, a bookish, serious old fellow with a beard and glasses, and very little patience for modern fads.

I’d say that my favourite composers are Goldsmith and Williams, but I also love Rózsa, (some) Herrmann, Alfred Newman, Leonard Rosenman, Jerry Fielding, Lalo Schifrin, Alex North, Hugo Friedhofer, Basil Poledouris – and of course I have an unhealthy fascination with mavericks from the world of jazz, especially the amazing output of Gil Mellé and Basil Kirchin. And Oliver Nelson too, but he seemed to be more human than both Mellé and Kirchin, who actually came from another planet.