Background Music Breakdown

This page will be formatted and corrected later - right now it serves as a place to keep track of where the musical scores appear.

Track List

The songs from the Original Television Soundtrack are as follows:

01. Prologue/Ares and Discord
02. Bathing/Introduction/The Lost Boys
03. The God's Take Away/The Stick Fight
04. Promise Me
05. Slain Warriors/Bath and Scheme/Argonauts Sail
06. It's a Twister!
07. Stable Rumble/Yvenna
08. Talking With the Moon
09. The Welcome Wagon
10. Be Honest
11. The Fleece/The Urn
12. Very Big Foot/Still Kicking
13. A Legend Is Born
14. End Titles
15. Main Title

Since it's fairly obvious from the track names where the songs appear in the Young Hercules (Movie Pilot), I'm going to skip detailing that until later.

The following songs were played in the background of these YH episodes:

1.01 Treasure of Zeus

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Before Hercules leaves for the Academy, the music playing when Alcmene tells him to stop obsessing over Zeus is "Nile At Night/Free Ramses Now" from the Hercules soundtrack, Volume Four.
• Track "02. Bathing/Introduction/The Lost Boys" can be heard in part during the scene change from Kora's Inn to Cheiron's Academy
• While the Phoenix is breaking free from the ashes, and while it chases Iolaus, the song is "Xena and the Big Bird" from the Xena soundtrack, Volume One.

1.02 Between Friends

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• When the rocks almost fall on the Academy Custodian, and while Hercules is fighting the Phoenix, the song is "Xena and the Big Bird" from the Xena soundtrack, Volume One.

1.03 What a Crockery

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.04 Herc and Seek

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.05 Girl Trouble

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.06 Teachers Pests

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Track "07. Stable Rumble/Yvenna" was used during the race between Hercules, Iolaus, and Jason toward the beginning of the episode.

1.07 Inn Trouble

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.08 Keeping Up With the Jasons

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.09 Amazon Grace

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Track "07. Stable Rumble/Yvenna" was used during the bagball game between the cadets and the Amazons.
• While the Amazons are dancing around the bonfire, the song is "Amazon Dance Party" from the Xena soundtrack "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire".

1.10 Cyrano de Hercules

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.11 Battle Lines I

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• While the Amazons are dancing around the bonfire, the song is "Amazon Dance Party" from the Xena soundtrack "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire".

1.12 Battle Lines II

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.13 Forgery

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.14 No Way Out

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.15 Ares on Trial

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Track "05. Slain Warriors/Bath and Scheme/Argonauts Sail" is used practically in its entirety, beginning when Jason dives into the pond to try to find Hercules and continuing into the next scene on Olympus.

1.16 Down and Out in Academy Hills

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.17 Winner Take All

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.18 A Serpent's Tooth

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.19 Lure of the Lyre

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.20 Fame

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.21 Lyre, Liar

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.22 A Lady in Hades

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.23 The Mysteries of Life

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.24 Dad Always Liked Me Best

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.25 Herc's Nemesis

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.26 Cold Feet

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• The music used for the Harvest Dance is "Chertomlik Dance Party" from the Xena soundtrack "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire".

1.27 Mommy Dearests

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.28 In Your Dreams

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.29 Sisters

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.30 The Golden Bow

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.31 Home for the Holidays

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.32 Cram-Ped

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.33 Con Ares

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.34 Get Jason

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.35 My Fair Lilith

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.36 Hind Sight

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.37 The Head That Wears The Crown

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.38 Me, Myself, and Eye

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.39 The Skeptic

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.40 Iolaus Goes Stag

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.41 Adventures in the Forbidden Zone

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.42 The Prize

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Ordinarily, the track "15. Main Title" is also used in the ending credits. For this episode, however, the refrain from Hercules and Iolaus's song "Here and Now (When I Look Into Your Eyes)" is used instead.

1.43 The Beasts Beneath

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.44 Parents' Day

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.45 A Life for a Life

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.46 Under Siege

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.47 Mila

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.48 Apollo

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.49 Ill Wind

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

1.50 Valley of the Shadow

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.

Other Episodes

Tracks from the Original Television Soundtrack were also used in the following episodes of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

• To be added