The main title theme is mostly lighthearted Americana with the orchestra "singing" the title phrase. At the end it turns serious and pensive, a mood that's continued in the second cue, "Spotlight/How Many Times", which might remind you of some of Fried's Star Trek music.

The sounds of a bygone age are conjured up in "Love's Old Sweet Song/How Many Times", with the clarinet taking the lead but also joined by accordion or something similar, with strings and other instruments coming in for the second part of the cue.

Fried then creates just the right bouncy, playful piece for "Hopscotch". You can easily imagine that it's for a scene of a child or children playing.

The "One Potato, Two Potato/How Many Times" themes then get a bit of a rearrangement, after which "Outcasts" brings us to a lonely and sorrowful place created by woodwinds and strings. The same melody is picked up for the next cue, "We're the Same".

"The Marriage" sounds like a serious and complicated situation but the main theme pops up at the end in a reassuring way.

Strings and a low drone announce "Cold Reception", which repeats the "Marriage" theme and emphasizes the seriousness of it. That motif gets another iteration in the beginning of "Not for Fools/One Potato, Two Potato" with the main theme once again making everything lighter at the end.

A jaunty and adventurous tone is set for "Shooting Games", with strings and woodwinds bouncing around with enthusiasm, while "Show-Down Hoe-Down" continues its feeling of swelling enthusiasm.

Dissonance and frantically bowed strings with agitated undercurrents from the other instruments aptly suggest "Turmoil", after which "Help" sounds more plaintive than frantic.

Thick and heavy string clusters descending a scale and eventually layered with dissonant and disturbing higher tones make "Attempted Rape" as disturbing as its title.

The following "Frustration" is another one that might remind you of Star Trek music, though it expands to encompass more colors and textures.

"Honor and Protect" has a similar intensity but a different shape, suggesting suspense and tension, after which the "How Many Times" theme returns, followed by a sharp and menacing "Along with a Memory" in which the orchestra saws and stabs.

The next cue, "The Judge", starts out with some surprisingly comic tones before becoming serious and featuring solo reed instrument of some kind as well as solo violin or viola.

You can hear the story coming to its resolution in "The Decision/Sorrow" and "Departure", and the wright and regret of it are signaled vividly in Fried's thick sonorities.

The main theme and a version with vocals comes next and the "One Potato, Two Potato" song had words to it that I never knew about!

This CD has one last track, in which the CD's producer, Stephan Eicke, speaks with composer Gerald Fried about the score for a few minutes.