First up is a selection of cues from episodes of the TV series Anna and the King. While Bernard Herrmann dove deep into the traditional music of the region for the movie Anna and the King of Siam, Rodgers and Hammerstein ignored both it and Herrmann's offer to share his work when they made the musical adaptation The King and I.

Goldsmith threads the needle, frequently suggesting melodic lines that you can easily imagine a gamelan orchestra executing while also writing more familiar-sounding pastoral, romantic and suspenseful cues. It's lovely to listen to and has got me curious about the show.

We all love it when Jerry goes groovy swinging '60s secret agent style. The soundtrack for the two Flint movies is probably the peak but his music for the Nick Quarry series is almost at that high level.

You only get four tracks and as I recall, these have been previously released as bonus tracks on some other CD, but it's nice to hear them again and this is where they belong.

Then there are three tracks from Only in America. These are all basically klezmer pieces, and really good ones, too.

Goldsmith wrote a really nice main theme for Room 222 and that's fortunate since that's what you hear in all six tracks from that program, in different arrangements of course.

Prudence and the Chief also has a cool theme and the "Main Title" even features what sounds like one of those electric guitar sitars as well as maybe clavinet.

The other cues provide opportunities for very effective tension and action cues as well as several different other dramatic moods. Jerry really makes use of different percussion instruments in this one.

Then we're back to dreamy, romantic, wistful, lovely listening in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Who knew they made a TV show out of this? The cues here showcase some of Goldsmith's best writing for small orchestra, making especially great use of the strings and woodwinds.

The last program represented here is A Girl Named Sooner, whose main title has harmonica playing a very quite and delicate melody with harp accompaniment, soon joinedd by flute and a few other instruments.

The theme gets its fair number of reprises and rearrangements but there are some other more playful and dramatic cues. Once again the music is making me interested in the show. Jerry Goldsmith was just amazing. No wonder he scored a zillion things.