Listmania: 50 film music one-hit wonders
Sometimes it happens that a composer pops up with one fine score and after that we don't here much from him. Several of the composers in this list have composed more than this one score, but still they are remembered for the single work listed.
Barron, Louis and Bebe - Forbidden Planet (1956)
Bernstein, Leonard - On the Waterfront (1954)
Buckmaster, Paul - 12 Monkeys (1995)
Carlos, Wendy - A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cordell, Frank - Khartoum (1966)
Corigliano, John - Altered States (1980)
Costa, Don - Soul of Nigger Charly, The (1973)
Courage, Alexander - Star Trek: The Cage (TV) (1966)
Davey, Shaun - Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Davis, Miles - L'ascenseur pour l'echaffaut (1958)
Dun, Tan - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Ellington, Duke - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Ellis, Don - The French Connection (1971)
Farnon, Robert - Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Gerard, Lisa - Whale Rider (2003)
Giovanni, Paul - The Wicker Man (1973)
Glass, Paul - Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Goraguer, Alain - La planete sauvage (1973)
Gross, Charles - Valdez is Coming (1971)
Guaraldi, Vince - A Boy Named Charlie Brown (TV) (1965)
Hammer, Jan - Miami Vice (1984)
Hancock, Herbie - Death Wish (1974)
Harris, Johnny - Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Hayes, Isaac - Shaft (1971)
Helms, Jim - Kung Fu (TV) (1972)
Hirschfelder, David - Elizabeth (1998)
Ikebe, Shinishiro - Kagemusha (1980)
Kaempfert, Bert - A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
Karas, Anton - The Third Man (1949)
Kraft, William - Fire and Ice (1983)
Martin, George - Live and Let Die (1973)
Mayfield, Curtis - Superfly (1972)
McKuen, Rod - Scandalous John (1971)
Mead, Abigail - Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Mellé, Gil - The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Moloney, Paddy - Treasure Island (1990)
Pook, Jocelyn - The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Powell, Andrew - Ladyhawke (1985)
Raksin, David - Laura (1944)
Ramin, Sid - Stiletto (1969)
Rubinstein, John - Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Sainton, Phillip - Moby Dick (1956)
Schickele, Peter - Silent Running (1972)
Schumann, William - Night of the Hunter (1955)
Shankar, Ravi - Charly (1968)
Tiersen, Yann - Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
Vaughn-Williams, Ralph - Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Vorzon, Barry de - Dillinger (1973)
Waits, Tom - Night on Earth (1992)
Wang Chung - To Live and Die in L. A. (1985)
posted by Omega at 4:04 AM
3 Comments:
I don't know, Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda -made for Cosby's cartoon production- is pretty damn funky. IMO, the best work Hancock ever produced. I was never a fan of his Jazz-Fusion shtuff. Isaac Hayes had a couple decent funk tracks after shaft too, like 'Truck Turner' and 'Three Tough Guys'.
Nice post, its a really cool blog that you have here, keep up the good work, will be back.
Warm Regards
Biby Cletus - Kagemusha Movie Review
Ok, Lisa Gerrard also worked at the score for "Gladiator" and she was the singer of Dead can Dance... I don't think that she's a one hit wonder
Yann Tiersen on the other side also did the score for "Goodbye Lenin". Just take a look at last.fm and you will see that this OST also ist quite popular
Except for these two artist your list is pretty cool and very interesting. :)
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