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Review of the Quantum Leap Soundtrack from the book "VideoHound's Soundtracks : Music from the Movies, Broadway and Television" (Videohound Series) by Didier C. Deutsch,
This show's time travel format not only offered composer Velton Ray Bunch the chance to create some uniquely flavored scores for each episode, but series star Scott Bakula, a veteran Broadway performer, was also allowed to showcase his vocal talent. His character, Sam Beckett, would land in some past time taking the form of a piano player, a rock singer, maybe Elvis or an off-Broadway actor performing in some home town production of Man of La Mancha. When Beckett returns to the home of his youth ("The Leap Home Part 1"), Bunch develops a lovely Midwestern motif featuring a harmonica solo to represent the farm and its surrounding expanse of wheat fields. The transformation into reputed Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald for "Leaping on a String," required the use of a large scale orchestral score to rival John Williams' work on JFK as film series creator Donald Bellasario wanted to debunk the Oliver Stone film because he knew Oswald personally. The album also features a twelve minute interview with Bakula and two versions of Mike Post's main title theme with, and without, the opening narration. -- © 1998 Visible Ink Press. All rights reserved.