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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted April 09, 2008 04:04 PM
Here's an interesting thought. I was musing over one of my favorite songs of all time, (part of a soundtrack) called ...
"Come Saturday Morning" by the Sandpipers. (late 1969 or early 1970, I believe)
To this day, that song brings up the goosebumps and brings me to tears, as it reminds me of those long ago days of innocence
as I played with my friends in the fields outside of my house in the country. I literally melt into the chair, almost feeling like I'm right back in that field, skinning my knees and picking my first flower for my first girlfriend, (at five years old, in fact), and still to this day, remembering her eyes and how they shined.
wow ....
anyhow, you guys have any songs that bring that lump to the throat? Lets start with cinematic, whether scores or individual
sang songs?
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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posted April 11, 2008 05:08 PM
By the way, on the "soundtrack" portion of this post, (and I'm speaking of Orchestrated classical sountrack), I would have to pick the magnificent "Tarna Theme" from "Heavy Metal".
While this movie was widely known for it's heavy metal soundtrack, (and justifiably so), Elmer Bernstein's soaring theme was my personal hi-light.
It's when Tarna the warrior is flying to her "sanctuary" to prepare for battle against the forces of evil, and it's the music that accompanies her journey there. It's a passionatte soaring orchestral number.
This guy was responsible for so many fantasic soundtracks :
The Ten Commandments
The Magnificent Seven (you know, the "Marlboro Man" theme)
Hawaii
Ghostbusters (orchestrated portion)
The Great Escape
To Kill A Mockingbird
Rambling Rose
... and this fantasic portion of music! It's strange, the more I watch Heavy Metal, though I like the hard rock, I find that the hard rock sounds more dated, yet that orchestral number still resounds in my heart. Perhaps, orchestrated soundtracks have an agelessness to them.
I think that is true. Goerge Lucas was pursued about having a rock soundtrack for his STAR WARS, and he vied for an orchestrated soundtrack as he stated that he didn't want his film to be fixed in one time period or style. He was right. If we were to hear STAR WARS with, for instance, IGGY POP, it would immediately be aged.
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Claus Harding
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posted April 11, 2008 06:19 PM
Haunting music. Let's see; so many fine ones:
Morricone, the master. Main theme from "Once Upon a Time in the West." Sweeping, beautiful, with Edda Dell'Orso's lovely voice.
An elegy for a time and a place that is vanishing.
The score for "Heaven's Gate" by David Mansfield. The film bombed, but the music is tender and lovely. Old West dance tunes and acoustic picking.
"Burning Bridges", the Mike Kerb Congregation, from "Kelly's Heroes." The arrangement works and doesn't really date despite the 70es choral sound and such; it is in fact a wistful and memorable song with excellent lyrics.
The modified parade-ground beat works very well in the arrangement, given the war-theme of the film.
A song used in "The Burmese Harp"; the classic film about Japanese soldiers stranded in the Burmese jungle as the war is getting lost.
The soldiers, hungry, tired and demoralized, are urged to sing by their commander. The song used by composer Ikura Ifukube isn't identified by name, but is evidently a traditional farewell song. Very western-sounding, it absolutely breaks your heart, even if you can't understand the lyrics.
There are so many more. Good thread.
Claus.
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Osi Osgood
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posted April 12, 2008 01:50 PM
Good pick on the theme from "Once Upon A Time in the West", it has a mournful feel to it, about the passing of an era, (already spoken about).
Also, the score that Ennio Morricone did for "Sergio Leone's" "My Name is Nobody". It's stated to be directed by "Tonino Valeri", with scenes directed by Sergio, but none of Tonino's other directional efforts were anywhere near this, so I personally credit Sergo for this fine western.
It has a playful note to the sountrack to begin the film, which originally turned me off, but I understand the idea behind it, and then there's that great whole sequence and soundtrack when Henry Fonda's character actually is forced into facing the 150 man wild bunch. It really makes you think of an era (once again) dying before our eyes.
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Steve Klare
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posted April 12, 2008 07:06 PM
Jim,
You could compare the track listing on the two albums you have to this list from Overtstock:
Looks Like A Suicide (Main Title) - (expanded)
Spotting The Herd - (previously unreleased)
Buffalo Hunt, The - (previously unreleased, film version)
Fire Dance
Two Socks At Play
Falling In Love - (previously unreleased)
Love Theme
John Dunbar Theme, The
Pawnees / Pawnee Attack / Stone Calf Dies / Toughest Dies
Victory - (previously unreleased)
Death Of Cisco, The
Ride To Fort Hays
Rescue Of Dances With Wolves
Loss Of The Journal, The / Return To Winter Camp, The
Farewell And End Title
Buffalo Hunt, The - (album version)
John Dunbar Theme, The - (previously unreleased, film version)
Journey To Fort Sedgewick / Shooting Star / John Dunbar Theme / Arrival At Fort Sedgewick
John Dunbar Theme, The
Death Of Timmons, The
Two Socks (The Wolf Theme)
Stands With A Fist Remembers
Buffalo Robe, The
Journey To The Buffalo Killing Ground
If they are the same, then you can be sure!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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