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Graham Ritchie
Film God
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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted June 06, 2008 07:13 PM
I have always been a fan of film music and remember seeing a film long ago which really impressed me and that was "The Trap" back in the 60s, the music at the opening of the film by Ron Goodwin stuck in my mind and during those summer holidays saved up enough to go the to the record store and by it on 45, played it time and time again thought it was great still do. looking through a CD store lately I was disapointed at the choice so went to an old junk store and found there was thousands of old records only $1 each, many I guess never made it to CD most were in very good condition what I did like was the sleeves the records were in, anyaway here are a couple of photos of some of those covers.
I remember reading somewhere that Steven Spielberg was a great fan of not just this film but the music as well and in his younger days bought the record and played the music many times over.
who can remember this movie? I always thought it was an unusual film but very well done and the music by Neil Diamond was very good I dont think the critics liked it, the cinema where I watched it is now closed down sitting empty, shame.
at the junk store I picked up South Pacific the difference with this record compared with the ones I had seen before this LP had a 10 pages in its fold out cover with photos and write up of the film, here are a couple more from South Pacific.
the last photo is from the number "There Is Nothin Like a Dame" which is also available from Derann as Scope 200 footer an excellent colour print, well thats just a glimpse of what records are available, I will have to buy a better record player as there so much out there.
Graham.
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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted June 09, 2008 07:53 PM
I love film music. So much good stuff never gets heard by 'the general public' because so few people even consider buying the original score from a film (as opposed to the 'piles of hits inspired by...' albums that have nothing to do with the film.)
Here is one score that lived a quiet life after the film came out:
A nice wistful score by Peter Schickele, with the two songs by Joan Baez...very much 'of the period' but nice listening from time to time. It captures the spirit of the film well.
Of course, then there are 'the boys' ![[Smile]](smile.gif) :
Songs from "Way Out West" and others....priceless.
And from great bombs, sometimes wonderful music comes:
If you like Western-tinged, old-fashioned waltzes and ballads, these instrumentals are lovely listening, played beautifully by David Mansfield.
I bought this album prior to the disastrous premiere of the film, and the record vanished almost as fast as the film. It is now available on CD, though.
Carmine Coppola's score from Abel Gance's 'Napoleon'...I could go on.. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Best,
Claus.
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 10, 2008 10:32 PM
Speaking of film scores, I was watching a mid seventies western starring Richard Harris, entitled, "The Deadly Trackers", a very bloody film, (but then Richard Harris's roles have tended towards the very very harsh and dramatic), and this was released by Warners Brothers.
What intrigued me was that almost all the soundtrack I instantly recognized from a classic western film, "The Wild Bunch" (Sam Peckinpah), which was also a Warners movie ...
What also intrigued me was that a little even seemed to have been lifted from a John Wayne movie, "Big Jake". I was fascinated that nearly the whole soundtrack was from other westerns. I'm betting back then that copyright laws on soundtracks or even the regular use of soundtracks from other sources was commonplace until the modern copyrights were enforced.
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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted June 11, 2008 10:27 AM
As Graham mentioned, the cover art of soundtrack LPs just was represented so much better than on little CD cases. Here's one I like:
Pretty dramatic painting, replicated in full in wide-screen on the back cover:
...on a CD case, you'd need a loupe
Good score from this big-budget flop by Brazillian composer Bernardo Segall, starring our late, lamented Robert Shaw as Custer.
Ron Goodwin got mentioned along the way; here's Sir Malcolm Arnold, another one of the good ones. He had a great sense of whimsy about his music.
The irony of 'Kwai' was that the best known piece in the score, the march, was written by Kenneth Alford in about 1914, and thus not Arnold's work at all:
And Doug, yes, the 'Napoleon' score I'll always enjoy, having seen/heard Carmine Coppola conduct it here at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC when the first major restoration of the film was re-premiered. One of the cinema moments I'll always cherish.
Best,
Claus.
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