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.
• Track "02. Bathing/Introduction/The Lost Boys" is used in the scene where Nysus is telling Iolaus and Jason the truth about the phoenix cave.
• The scene with Iolaus, Jason, and Nysus at Kora's has several tracks, and different portions of the tracks are used in different spots.
  • Fragments of the track 'To Heroes' from Volume 2 of the Hercules soundtrack is used to open the scene.
  • The 'Bath and Scheme' portion of track "05. Slain Warriors/Bath and Scheme/Argonauts Sail" is used when Nysus and Iolaus are talking at Kora's and Nysus is trying to turn him against Jason.
  • "01. Prologue/Ares and Discord" is used in part when Iolaus discovers that his money pouch is missing and he goes to retrieve it. It's most noticeable, though, when Strife comes out from behind the tree where he was eavesdropping.
    • (It took Alayia and me 15 minutes to figure out each track and where it goes. The reason for this is because, with each track, bits were chopped and rearranged. We think we may have gotten it, though. If we're wrong about any of this, do let us know. ~Ty)

1.03 - What a Crockery

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Track "07. Stable Rumble/Yvenna" was used during the melon ball scene.
• A section from track "01. Prologue/Ares and Discord" is used immediately after the melon ball scene, when Strife is taunting Hercules and the others.
• Track "06. It's a Twister!" is used when Ares has Hercules cornered and is getting ready to deliver the killing blow.

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.
• Track "02. Bathing/Introduction/The Lost Boys" is used when Hercules and the others are preparing the trap to free the Amazons.

1.06 - Teacher's 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.
• Track "10. Be Honest" is used when Hephaestus, not wanting to put anyone at the Academy in danger, leaves and Hercules goes after him

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 - The Lure of the Lyre

• Track "15. Main Title" was used during the Opening Credits.
• Several seconds (00:01:22-00:01:29) of track "02. Bathing/Introduction/The Lost Boys" was used when Hercules first arrives at Cheiron's Academy after meeting Bacchus, to see Lilith and Iolaus sparring.
• Track "08. Talking With the Moon" was used in the last scene while Hercules, Lilith, and Iolaus watch Eurydice and Orpheus walk away.

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.
• Track "06. It's a Twister!" was used in the scene where the vortex pulls the cadets into the dream world.
• Track "08. Talking With the Moon" was used during the conversation between Hercules and Cheiron, beginning when Hercules reveals his greatest fear and continuing on until Hercules enters the dream world.

1.29 - Sisters

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

1.30 - 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.
• Track "06. It's a Twister!" was used whenever the North Winds appeared.

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 - 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.

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