MUMBAI: A 11-week programming initiative on WorldSpace has finally begun! Soundtrack Of Your Life is a cross-platform programming initiative which highlights a number of our own WorldSpace Branded channels.At its essence Soundtrack Of Your Life is about the music - each of the 24 participating channels will be highlighting music relevant to their format that has come from film soundtracks. Each channel will also be adding in features, interviews and film clips as they present this programming special in their own unique and creative way.
Oct 15 - Oct 21Up CountryEvent is called "The Hollywood Hayride" 10/15-21 two movie related songs per hour (and related movie dialog) in regular programming and special programming:10/13- 20 Pioneers: The Singing Cowboys10/14-21 Decades: Greatest Country Music Movie Songs10/14-21 Banks of the Ohio: Traditional and Bluegrass Movie Tunes
JhankaarRadio Jhankaar brings to you a Background Score special as part of the Soundtrack of your life special! Tune in from the Oct 15th-21st as some of the most successful music composers like Salim, Suleiman, Sandeep Chowta, Ranjit Barot share their opinion on the importance, growth and future of Background Score in Indian cinema
Oct 22 - Oct 28VoyagerWe will be featuring a SOYL event everyday at 11 on Radio Voyager 11. This includes movie clips, music & trivia.
GandharvRadio Gandharv traces the history of film songs that have become `classics`over the years. Most of these songs have a long life because of their deep classical roots. The show would explore these classical roots (the raag,, sound, lyrics, etc). The series will also focus on the changing sound of the classics - how the same raag and same emotion, theme has been interpreted in different ways by different music directors/lyricists/film-makers in film music. It will cover the decades from the 40s till the present day. Radio Gandharv`s Soundtrack of your life -- Saat dashak, Saat swar, Ek Safar will showcase classical beauty of some classics over seven decades of Hindi film music. 7.30 pm IST all week.
Oct 29 - Nov 4UPopFrom Hollywood to Bollywood the Soundtrack of Your life returns to UPop!!! November 5th through the 11th featuring movies clips and Soundtrack songs from some of the biggest global box office hits of the last 20 years. Also UPOP will have interviews with the directors, song writers and celebrities responsible for the Box office hits. Listen all week and hear Sunil Mahorta Director of Dude Where`s the Party, David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos, shares why specific music in a soundtrack plays such an important role in setting a scene or a mood, and Victoria Beckham sharing her very personal definition of Bending it Like Beckham..... Plus you`ll hear from the stars that created the Soundtrack Superhits including Steve Marker and Shirley Manson from Garbage as they tell Ted Kelly how they were selected to record the theme to the James Bond classic The World is not enough and Romeo and Juliet. Even comedy superstar Pablo Francisco joins UPop to lend his Movie Guy Voice to The Soundtrack of your life.......Now it`s playback time...The Soundtrack of your life on UPop!!!... Visit worldspace.com/upop to checkout the movie and soundtracks featured and buy the movie DVDs!
SpandanaSoundtrack Of Your Life on Spandana this year focuses on the research done in the field of Telugu Film Music. Tune in to a seven day series on seven books written by experts on the subject. At 8am IST every day of this week.
Nov 12 - Nov 18Hop"Motown Monday" the songs of Motown that appeared in films - "The Big Chill" of course and many more"Tarantino Tuesday" music from the films of Quentin Tarantino, highlighting "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown"Wild About Elvis Wednesday" - viva the King with music and excerpts from at least 15 of his films"Grad Bag Thursday" - just like the name suggests we`ve got all kinds of stuff here from "Shaft" to "Butch Cassidy""Fifties Friday" - music from the 1950`s in various films, "Animal House", "Diner", "American Graffitti", etc."Secret Agent Saturday" - primarily the sound of 007..Bond..May also include a few secret agent TV show themes, Mat Helm and "Our Man Flint""Surf`s Up Sunday" - songs from classic beach movies of the `60s - plus some Dick Dale, Revels, etc.
Nov 19 - Nov 25BobIn November, BOB 177 presents Movies That Rock!, as The Soundtrack Of Your Life continues on WorldSpace Satellite Radio. Bob takes you to the movies to celebrate the cult films that mesmerized a generation, and the soundtracks that made them rock. From Empire Records, Say Anything, and Vanilla Sky, to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and This Is Spinal Tap. This is going to be a wild ride, with short excerpts from the actual films, and soundtrack selections. Take a listen back to some of the most poignant, hilarious and utterly cliche` films that put you in a place in time...only on BOB 177.
Nov 26 - Dec 2RiffThe title of the program is "THE RIFF SOYL EPISODE". Riff will present over 130 songs representing approximately 54 films. We will present one Episode - an hour, 24 a day, 168 episodes total for the week.
Dec 3 - Dec 9Orbit RockEach day during SOYL, Orbit will add a bit of a twist and refer to it as the Soundtrack Of Your Life in (city or town.) Each day we`ll play artists that hail from a different city, and spotlight that city/town...example: Soundtrack of your life in Seattle...we`ll play music from Heart, Nirvana, Queensryche, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, etc. ...we`ll provide information on the artists and what impact they`ve had on their city.
Dec 10- Dec 16AmoreThroughout the week Radio Amore will spotlight Love Songs from popular motion pictures. Once every hour, a soundtrack song will be played and it will be introduced by a pre-produced vignette that gives a brief synopsis of the movie and information about the musical soundtrack
MaestroMaestro will feature music from the classic Hollywood film soundtracks, and will highlight composers who wrote both for Hollywood and the orchestral arenas. Maestro will feature music from the great film scores by composers such as Bernard Herrmann (Hitchcock scores like North by Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho), Dmitri Tionkin (Giant, Red River, The Guns of Navarone, Fall of the Roman Empire), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Sea Hawk, Deception, King`s Row, Robin Hood), Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind, King Kong), Miklos Rosza (Ben Hur), and John Williams. We`ll also feature these composers` works for the symphonic stage.
Dec 17 - Dec 23RetroIt`s The last month of WORLDSPACE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE 2007, and Retro Radio 80 is gearing up to open up THE RETRO DRIVE-IN THEATER. It`s the radio version of that great American tradition of loading your family into a car...driving to a field in the middle of no where....and watching movies on a gigantic outdoor screen. At THE RETRO DRIVE-IN, you don`t need a car...you don`t need to drive anywhere...you don`t even need a family...you just need to tune your WorldSpace dial to 80 for an entire week of the best music from the best movies from the best time period of them all...the 1970s and 80s. See worldspace.com/retroradio for details.
Dec 24- Dec 30PotionThroughout the week, Potion will spotlight R&B hits from popular Black films. Once every hour, a soundtrack song will be played and it will be introduced by a pre-produced vignette that gives a brief synopsis of the movie and information about the musical soundtrack. Also, on Saturday, December 29, 2007, at 12:00 (GMT) Potion will air the countdown of "The Top 20 R&B Soundtrack Songs Of All Time". Hosted by Candy Shannon and special guest host, Ray Parker Jr.