Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Derrick & Der Alte (Music from the Original TV Series, 1974-1984) (2024)

Derrick turns 50 this year, but it has become quiet around the extremely popular and highly successful German crime series. This is due to chief inspector Horst Tappert's posthumously publicized Nazi past.

A comparable TV series, on the other hand, continues to run unwaveringly to this day: "Der Alte". What they both have in common, and the subject of this album, is that Peter Thomas was one of their musical creators in their early phase. Peter Thomas and his sound orchestra created the music for the first Derrick episode "Waldweg" (1974). Six more followed. The composer and musician even made a cameo appearance in the Derrick episode "Death of the Trumpeter" (1976), where he is in the audience of singer Sabrina (Emy Cesaroni) and briefly interacts with her. The corresponding track "Ohne Dich ist es Nacht" was once a successful single and can be heard on this album. Three years later, in 1977, Peter Thomas even wrote the theme music for the first 100 episodes of the TV crime series "Der Alte", as well as the music for four episodes, including the first, "Die Dienstreise".

Tracklist:
1 The House Of The Rising Sun (My Life As A Girl)
2 Opium
3 Ohne dich ist es Nacht
4 Sophisti-Cat
5 Musikant am Schwabylon
6 Zahltag
7 Bordkapelle
8 Milky Way
9 Der Alte - Titelmusik
10 Verfolgungsjagd
11 Tod im Olympiadorf
12 Go
13 Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind
14 Alleingang
15 Eine Million
16 Stephan & Harry
17 Isar-Disco