Girl in the Tower

"Girl in the Tower" is a song from the soundtrack of the computer game "King's Quest VI". Mark Seibert wrote the song in 1992. The song is a love ballad between two of the game's principal characters, Prince Alexander and Princess Cassima. Accordingly, the song elaborates upon Seibert's "Princess Cassima's Theme" from the "King's Quest V" soundtrack. "Girl in the Tower" was digitally recorded, with Ron Delarm on guitar and Bob Bergthold and Debbie Seibert performing vocals. The vocal version of the track plays only in the CD-rom version of "King's Quest VI", although even this was remarkable in 1992.

When "King's Quest VI" was first released on floppy disc, a pamphlet was included with the game listing various radio stations to which the song had been sent. Buyers were encouraged to call in and request that the song be played, but this campaign was unsuccessful.Fact|date=June 2007

According to the site queststudios.com, Mark Seibert comments about the single "'Girl In The Tower' was an idea I came up with when I found out that 'King's Quest VI' was going to be a love story between Alexander and Cassima. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to write a top 40 type love ballad to be sung as a duet. As I explored the possibilities, I found some of the motifs from the original Cassima theme worked well in this style."

In Space Quest VI, the song can be heard if the player clicks on the radio found in the Information Superhighway office.

External links

* [http://www.queststudios.com/quest/collection.html Sierra Soundtrack Collection] with option for MP3 download of "Princess Cassima" and "Girl in the Tower"
* [http://www.gamespot.com/features/6144989/index.html King's Quest VI entry in Gamespot's Greatest Games of All Time]