Pat Metheny Film Scores: The Search For Solutions
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- A nine part television series, produced by J.C. Crimmins for PBS. Music composed, arranged and performed by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. Series aired nationally over PBS in April, 1979 The stated purpose of "The Search for Solutions" is to stimulate interest in science and technology, primarily among the young. The film comprises nine 18-minute sections touching on various aspects of scientific inquiry that its makers say can be shown as a whole, as it is in this engagement, or in any combination of its parts.
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I heard this for the 1st time when I was in 8th grade. I always remembered it and i ran into it again as a 45 year old man. I feel a sense of gratification to hear it once again and to see it in the same film as a 51 year old man.
For me, this is where my PMG experience began. In early 1980, my submarine was being overhauled in Bremerton Washington. I watched this PBS series being played on the Seattle PBS station. I don’t remember much about the video or spoken content. But I zeroed in on the intro and outro music, especially “The Search”, and I was hooked. I couldn’t wait to get to the final credits to see who composed and rendered that piece. That day, I rode the ferry to Seattle and purchased my first PMG album. “American Garage”.
I wish I could find this series on CZcams. It was put out by ConocoPhillips if I recall correctly, called Search For Solutions. I learned so much from this series. We watched it in Physics class. Miss you Mr. Greene!
I watched these in the 7th grade, 1982 from 16mm films.
So did I! Wonderful memories! I also remember when we watched this, it was near the end of the school year and I felt the excitement of spring! 😊
I’ve been searching for the name of this film series for years (over 40!) just to find the music at the end. I was listening to a D/FW jazz station when I heard the music and I thought, “that’s it!” Fortunately I had the SoundHound app and caught enough of it to connect; I was quite pleased and learned it was Pat Metheny Group playing The Search. I confirmed it by Google searching the song title crossed with science film. Boom! There it was. It sounds silly but I’ve really wanted to know this for over 40 years now.
This was literally my first encounter with PMG, when I was in high school. Ah, the '70s--they get dumped on so often. If we'd just been patient and worked things out back then, we'd be in a better place now.
SAME! I loved this series! A math teacher would show it to us in Calculus and Physics class! Later on I heard this song on one of those generic weather channels that just showed updates on the map and most of the time read the time and temperature, and I thought, "That's the Search For Solutions series!" But I did not know it was a PBS series; I thought it was put out by Phillips Conoco.
I understand. I loved the song, too. I heard it again a few years later on a college radio station, and the DJ announced it as what sounded to me like "The Search by Patrick Finney." I spent years looking for Patrick Finney in the record stores, unsuccessfully, of course. After about 15 or 20 years, I was buying CDs one day, but I couldn't remember his name anymore. I just remembered it was Patrick something Irish. Browsing through, I came across Patrick O'Hearn and figured that must have been it. I spent several more years searching his music without success. Some time later, a friend recommended the new Pat Metheny album to me. I went to purchase it, and as I was looking through the collection I came upon the American Garage album with a track titled "The Search." I checked out as quickly as I could, opened the CD in the car in the parking lot, put it in the player and skipped to the 3rd track, and instantly was overwhelmed with joy that my search for The Search was complete!
The song still lifts me every time I hear it again.
@@perfessermicbo8556 Speaks most to how infecting the Matheny sound is!
I had a similar experience...With the movie "Fandango". The movie was great, but the music really got my attention.
Been hooked ever since!
THAT IS HILARIOUS. in 2015, I had almost the exact same same experience. I'd wondered how I might find a science documentary I very much enjoyed in school in the early 80's. It was a series from the 70's, maybe, but I did not know the title (not even in part) and was not certain it was shown on PBS even... Finding it with so little information was hopeless... I would occasionally puzzle at it like a fantom limb. Until, one day, listening to our local Jazz station I heard some piece by Pat Metheny. It had _some part_ of the sound I associated with this lost series. I don't think it was the score (and other posts here lead me to believe that is correct) but it had some of the flavor. Enough to jolt me into action. Grab the computer, dash off a Google search, now with Metheny in it! That would narrow things quite a bit. "Metheny Science Documentary" I think it was... BOOM! I first found a copy where the phillips connoco people had re built the entire thing with different everything... Then I hunted some more and got yet another VHS tape with the proper soundtrack.
Finding this lead me to reconnect the VCR and revisit this. Stacy Keach's voice is one of the voices in my head for reading almost certainly from seeing this series at an impressionable age.
I remember watching these in science class in 8th grade on 16mm projectors. 1979.
Nice to see this on youtube. I got my hands on all nine on an ebay auction several years ago.
Lucky! I searched for them so hard to show to my kids when they were small and couldn't find them.
YES THE 8 TH GRADE 1983 I BEEN LOKKING FOR THIS
Oh man! Memories! The smell of freshly mown grass outside our classroom, because it was such a gorgious morning, and listening to that music made me wonder who that was. I had heard "The Fields, The Sky" and "Across the Heartland", both on the "American Garage" album, but when I heard the Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays album "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" album, that's when I heard the song "September 15" which was the day that Jazz composer and pianist Bill Evans passed away. The recording was from a demo version, and I was hooked. As if that wasn't enough, on April 28, 1982, I heard an interview with Pat with Russ Davis of the show Jazz Flavors on Q94 FM, a precursor of STAR 94 here in Atlanta, I was smitten! And even though it was over the phone, Pat's voice came through enough and the way he spoke in such an easy-going and confident way without a doubt is what raised the bar for me. His music was a breath of fresh air, and if I hadn't been introduced to "American Garage" in 1978 when it came out, I wouldn't have been so inspired by that interview to learn more about him and his music. To this day, I'm still listening more than ever to it, because it became the soundtrack of this life. I can still listen to him, and it's like having a long-time friend that doesn't judge me, but rather, his music helps me know more about myself, others and the world around me which can be a really amazing place! After a hemorrhagic mini-stroke in 2002, it was his music that helped me through some of the darkest days following it, especially when I had hallucinations that were so vivid that I had a very hard time deciphering between them and reality. "American Garage" featured the Pat Metheny Group, and "As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls" came out a couple years after American Garage, so that's why there's a difference between the two versions of September 15. The title of that album refers to the Terrible Tuesday, April 10, 1979 when both cities were hit by a monster tornado, and if you listen to that track, you'll hear a rumbling sound twice during the first couple of minutes of that piece.
I'm always amazed how Pat's music has evolved through time and experience, and those two weren't the only ones. I wish I could find that series here on CZcams along with other older PBS docu-series like Life Lines. That one aired between 1978 and 1982 and was sponsored by Baxter Travinol and Merc.
Beautiful music and film. Reminds me of Ashton Court Bristol UK, summer days and balloons.
The score is all located in the Album "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
No it isn't. Only the first part of this is the first part of "September 15th" from that album. The last part is "The Search" from American Garage. These are also earlier versions and recordings of those tunes than what appeared on the albums. There's a lot of other stuff in between in this clip that was only written for this programme.
actually 'American Garage'...
Not even. “The Search” on the album doesn’t have a synth bass. I’d love to have all those cuts from this show.
"Wichita" has been recorded in 1980 (while the movie is from 1979), so the version of "September 15th" is not the version from the album. You can hear a different guitar sound and phrasing here, if you listen carefully...
September 15 is a tribute to Bill Evans, who died Sept 15 1980. So in 1979 there was no such song title.