AIRWOLF Theme plus what are the original three ‘Airwolf Themes’ soundtrack music releases?
‘AIRWOLF THEMES’ is a 2CD soundtrack album score, later joined by a sequel preview EP called 'AIRWOLF MAIN THEMES' EP, with a further expanded official 2CD sequel released during March 2014 called ‘AIRWOLF EXTENDED THEMES’, for the high-flying, mid 1980s, American, action adventure, television series called 'Airwolf' (1984-1986) which starred Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott and Deborah Pratt.
Airwolfwas a show that concerned an iconic, shark-like, supersonic, military helicopter, codenamed AIRWOLF (or known affectionately as 'The Lady' by the characters on the show ) and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme. The series ran for 55 episodes on CBS in the United States in 1984 through 1986, and an additional 24 episodes (called 'AIRWOLF II' aka Canadian Season 4), created by a new Canadian cast and production company, aired on the USA Network in 1987, for a total of 79 episodes.
But it was the amazing music on Airwolf, composed by Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz, that has stayed with the show's fans to this day and especially the memorable main theme tune used in both the opening and closing title sequences and during the aerial battle scenes between the real-life aircraft used on the show, which to many people nowadays symbolizes anything to do with helicopters!
When that iconic Main Theme Tune song kicks in, you just know a baddie is going to get it -- from that Blackbird of Death Amalgam of Lone Ranger, Mighty Mouse and God! Airwolf.
Airwolf's Tune of the Week approach
What made the episodic music so different to other peer television shows of its day like 'Knight Rider' was that both composers, Sylvester Levay and Udi Harpaz (and the other stand-in composers Ian Freebairn-Smith and Bernardo Segáll) utilized a more "tune-of-the-week" approach to their episodic scoring for Airwolf's music score (used in addition to the show's Main Theme Tune every week) rather than the bland, background, orchestral music score traditional to shows of the 1970s + 1980s by their contemporaries, that today are very difficult to listen to the music in their own right without all the dialogue, visuals and foley sound effects layered on top.
The Airwolf Theme for the Helicopter
Airwolf's legacy is that the music, and especially the Airwolf Main Theme Tune stands out simply due to that so-called, tune-of-the-week approach to the music score which transports you to specific scenes, in specific locations, in specific Airwolf episodes, from specific seasons of the show – giving a very unique selling point and quality that makes these collections of Airwolf Themes, especially ‘Airwolf Extended Themes’ or ‘Airwolf Main Themes EP’ such an enjoyable escape to both synthesizer and orchestral music aficionados.
The Main Theme song itself really is a piece of iconic music that has transcended above its original intention and stood the test of time by being known by millions of people around the world, both young and old, as the traditional tune (compared to 'Blue Thunder') to sum up the entire, high-flying world of helicopters and some will even say, some of the greatest synthesiser music ever created, especially from the pioneering days of the mid-1980s.
Airwolf Theme on your smartphone
How many of you have the Main Theme Tune song on your mobile or smartphone like an iPhone or Google Android cell phone especially? A lot of you we'd bet. Well, both the ‘Main Themes EP’ and the new 2014 ‘Extended Themes’ 2CD release have now begun the defacto recordings from the series. So make sure you update your old Mono recordings that you have now, with the real thing from this website.