The 'Unsolved Mysteries' theme song has spooked viewers for decades. Here's the story behind it.
“The real magic of the theme happened when we went into the studio,” Malkin says.
They worked with a synthesist named Charles Judge, who “brought it all to to life with these sweeping, sliding” pitch bends that resulted in a wailing, siren-like sound and a chilling effect. “He took the pitch bender and hit all the notes in such a creepy way. It was like the way the color white has all the colors in the rainbow.”The theme also has a “killer drum sound” that Malkin likens to a gunshot or an explosion, which he says added to the tension.
” which was composed by John Carpenter, he says in a Zoom call, playing the songs back to back for comparison. “That droning and repeating [in the ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ theme] is part of what makes it ominous. It seems impervious to moving anywhere, and when it does move, it moves into really unexpected places, which is what the ‘Halloween’ theme does.
Malkin sees similarities between “Unsolved Mysteries’” theme and the iconic theme music to “The Twilight Zone,” which premiered in 1959.
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