Even more stuff for wasting time

Titles that have not been posted very often

2009-06-28T10:30:00.000-07:00

If you have one of them, please post the link at http://isbumsplace.blogspot.com/
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Perhaps some of you want to post something and are thinking "what titles of my collection have not been posted already ?"

I've been following the film music blogs quite a time now and there are actually several more or less common titles (in terms of past and current store availability) that somehow seem to have been slipped away - at least to my eyes.

So if any of you want some suggestions for future postings, here is a list of about 150 titles that I think would be interesting for the majority of us around here.

(various) --- Bonanza (4 CDs)--- (CD, Bear Family, )
(various) --- Creature From the Black Lagoon (and Other Jungle Pictures)--- (CD, Monstrous Movie Music, )
(various) --- Hollywood: The Post-War Years 1946-1949 (incl. ""Time Out of Mind + A Double Life (Miklos Rozsa)"")--- (LP, AEI 3104, 1980)
(various) --- Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons Vol. 1 --- (CD, Screen Archives, 2007)
(various) --- Music from CBS Westerns (Gunsmoke + Rawhide + Cimarron Strip)--- (CD, Film Music Society FMS 001, 2004)
(various) --- Shoot 'Em Ups! Music From The Classic Republic Westerns--- (CD, Varese, )
(various) --- The A to Z of British TV Themes Vol. 4--- (CD, Play it Again PL 009, )
Astley, Edwin --- Danger Man (Half Hour Episodes) (2 CDs)--- (CD, Network 7959005, 2008)
Astley, Edwin --- Danger Man (Hour Long Episodes) (5 CDs)--- (CD, Network 7959006, 2008)
Band, Richard --- Prison (CoComposer Christopher L. Stone)--- (LP, , )
Barry, John --- Robin and Marian--- (CD, Prometheus, 2008)
Beltrami, Marco --- The Invisible--- (CD, Hollywood, 2007)
Berlin, Irving --- Alexander's Ragtime Band --- (CD, Screen Archives, )
Bernstein, Elmer --- Anna Lucasta--- (CD, Varese, 2008)
Bernstein, Elmer --- Great Escape (ReRecording)--- (CD, RCA, )
Bernstein, Elmer --- I Love Trouble--- (CD, , )
Bernstein, Elmer --- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge--- (CD, , )
Bernstein, Elmer --- Staccato + Paris Swings--- (CD, DRG, 2008)
Bernstein, Elmer --- The Magnificent Seven (ReRecording Conducted by Bernstein)--- (CD, RCA, )
Bernstein, Elmer --- The Ten Commandments (ReRecording)--- (LP, United Artists, 1966)
Bernstein, Peter --- Bolero--- (LP, , )
Broughton, Bruce --- Infinity--- (CD, Intrada, )
Broughton, Bruce --- One Tough Cop--- (CD, Intrada, )
Broughton, Bruce --- True Women--- (CD, Intrada, )
Conti, Bill --- North and South: Book II (4 CDs)--- (CD, Varese, 2008)
Coulais, Bruno --- Rétrospective (2 CDs)--- (CD, Naïve, 2008)
Debney, John --- G-Savior--- (CD, Son May Records GGG-356, 1999)
Debney, John --- In Pursuit of Honor + Class of '61 (1993)--- (CD, Prometheus Promo, )
Debney, John --- Paulie--- (CD, Varese, 1998)
Elms, Albert --- Man in a Suitcase (5 CDs)--- (CD, Network 7959002, 2008)
Endelman, Stephen --- Grand, The--- (CD, Milan, 2008)
Endelman, Stephen --- O Jerusalem--- (CD, Milan, )
Fenton, George --- A Handful of Dust--- (CD, DRG, )
Fenton, George --- Carla's Song--- (CD, Debonair, )
Fenton, George --- Living Out Loud--- (CD, , )
Fenton, George --- My Name is Joe--- (CD, Debonair, )
Fenton, George --- The Long Walk Home--- (CD, Varese, )
Fenton, George --- The Trials of Life--- (CD, Prestige, )
Fenton, George --- The Woodlanders--- (CD, Debonair, )
Fenton, George --- White Mischief--- (CD, Varese, )
Fiedel, Brad --- Let’s Get Harry--- (LP, , )
Goldenthal, Elliot --- The Green Bird--- (CD, DRG, 1996)
Goodwin, Ron --- Escape From the Dark--- (LP, , 1976)
Gould, Morton --- World War I--- (LP, , )
Grainer, Ron --- Nothing But the Best--- (LP, , )
Grainer, Ron --- Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)--- (LP, , )
Grusin, Dave --- Cinemagic--- (CD, GRP, 1987)
Grusin, Dave --- Dinner With Friends--- (CD, Jellybean, )
Grusin, Dave --- Selena--- (CD, Angel, )
Herrmann, Bernard --- Music From Great Shakespearean Films--- (CD, , )
Holdridge, Lee --- The Explorers: A Century of Discovery--- (CD, Intrada, 2008)
Hoppe, Michael --- Misunderstood--- (LP, , )
Horner, James --- Freedom Song--- (CD, , 2000)
Isham, Mark --- At First Sight--- (CD, , 1999)
Isham, Mark --- Billy Bathgate--- (CD, , 1991)
Isham, Mark --- Last Dance--- (CD, , 1996)
Isham, Mark --- Losing Isaiah--- (CD, , 1995)
Isham, Mark --- Love at Large--- (CD, , 1990)
Isham, Mark --- Made in America--- (CD, , 1993)
Isham, Mark --- Miami Rhapsody--- (CD, , 1995)
Isham, Mark --- Save the Last Dance--- (CD, , 2001)
Isham, Mark --- Sketch Artist--- (CD, , 1992)
Isham, Mark --- The Education of Little Tree--- (CD, , 1997)
Isham, Mark --- The Moderns--- (CD, , 1988)
Isham, Mark --- The Public Eye--- (CD, , 1992)
Jarre, Maurice --- Jesus of Nazareth (expanded)--- (CD, , )
Jones, Trevor --- Mississippi Burning--- (CD, Antilles, )
Kamen, Michael --- The Krays--- (CD, Parkfield Music PMCD 5018, 1990)
Kaper, Bronislau --- Ride, Vaquero! (+ The Outriders (1950) (Andre Previn))--- (CD, Film Score Monthly, 2007)
Khachaturian, Aram --- Othello + The Battle of Stalingrad--- (CD, Marco Polo, )
Kilar, Wojciech --- Magnificat + Victoria--- (CD, , 2008)
Kilar, Wojciech --- Triptych (Bogurodzica (12:07) + Angelus (23:15) + Exodus (22:54))--- (CD, Dux, 2005)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Gerd Albrecht Conducting)--- (CD, cpo, 1998)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- Juarez + The Prince and the Pauper (1937) + Between Two Worlds (1944) (2 CDs with OST)--- (CD, Tsunami TCI 0626, )
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- Juarez + The Sea Wolf (1941) + The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) (James Sedares Conducting)--- (CD, Koch, 2000)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Lionel Newman Conducting)--- (CD, DCC Compact Classics GZS-1094, 1996)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- The Constant Nymph (OST)--- (CD, Tsunami TSU 0138, 1997)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- The Sea Hawk (Rumon Gamba Conducting) (Chandos Vol. 2)--- (CD, Chandos, 2007)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang --- The Sea Wolf + The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (Rumon Gamba Conducting) (Chandos Vol. 1)--- (CD, Chandos, 2005)
Kral, Robert J. --- Batman: Gotham Knight--- (CD, La-La Land, 2008)
Lambert, Constant --- The Film Music of Constant Lambert and Lord Berners--- (CD, Chandos, 2008)
Lava, William --- Dracula vs. Frankenstein--- (CD, Elysee, 2008)
Mancini, Henry --- Gaily, Gaily--- (LP, RCA, 1969)
Mancini, Henry --- In the Pink--- (CD, RCA, 1984)
Mancini, Henry --- The Mancini Generation (TV)--- (LP, RCA, 1972)
McNeely, Joel --- Lover's Prayer--- (CD, Varese, 2000)
McNeely, Joel --- Samantha--- (CD, Intrada, 1992)
McNeely, Joel --- The Towering Inferno and Other Disaster Classics (Joel McNeely Conducting)--- (CD, Varese, 1998)
Newman, Alfred --- Alfred Newman Conducts His Great Film Music--- (LP, Angel S-36066, )
Newman, Alfred --- Dragonwyck --- (CD, Screen Archives, 2002)
Newman, Alfred --- The Film Music of Alfred Newman--- (LP, Citadel CT-7015, )
Newman, Alfred --- Tribute to Alfred Newman--- (CD, Koch, )
Newman, David --- My Demon Lover--- (LP, Varese, 1987)
Newman, David --- The Sandlot--- (CD, Varese CD Club, )
Newman, Thomas --- Flesh and Bone--- (CD, Varese, )
Newman, Thomas --- Josh and S.A.M.--- (CD, Varese, )
Newman, Thomas --- The Linguini Incident--- (CD, Varese, )
Newman, Thomas --- The Salton Sea--- (CD, Varese, )
Newman, Thomas --- Unstrung Heroes--- (CD, Hollywood, )
Ottman, John --- Urban Legends: Final Cut--- (CD, Varese, 2000)
Powell, John --- Two Weeks Notice--- (CD, Varese, )
Revell, Graeme --- Human Nature--- (CD, Virgin, 2001)
Rosenman, Leonard --- Jurij--- (CD, Rai Trade/Intermezzo Media CRT 302, 2003)
Rosenman, Leonard --- Rebel - Music from the Films of James Dean (ReRecording) (2 CDs)--- (CD, Edel, 1993)
Rosenman, Leonard --- The Bible--- (CD, GTSP AUD 803, 1994)
Rosenthal, Laurence --- Who'll Stop the Rain--- (CD, Intrada, 2008)
Rozsa, Miklos --- Blood on the Sun --- (CD, Citadel Records STC 77137, 2006)
Rozsa, Miklos --- Brute Force + The Naked City (1948) + The Killers (1946) (OST)--- (CD, Soundtrack Library CD 76, 2001)
"Rozsa, Miklos --- Double Life (incl. ""The Strange Love of Martha Ivers"")--- (LP, Medallion ML 314, )"
Rozsa, Miklos --- King of Kings + El Cid (1961) + Ben-Hur (1959) (Richard Müller-Lampertz Conducting)--- (CD, Varese VCD 47268, 1986)
Rozsa, Miklos --- Quo Vadis? + Ben-Hur (1959) (2 CDs)--- (CD, Dutton Vocalion CDLK 4332, 2006)
Salter, Hans J. --- Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror + Ghost of Frankenstein--- (CD, Marco Polo, )
Schifrin, Lalo --- Four Muskeers (expanded), The--- (CD, Label X, 2008)
Schifrin, Lalo --- Kaleidoscope (Jazz Meets the Symphony 6)--- (CD, Aleph, 2005)
Schifrin, Lalo --- Spooks--- (CD, Aleph, 2008)
Schnittke, Alfred --- Film Music Vol. I--- (CD, Capriccio, )
Schnittke, Alfred --- Film Music Vol. II--- (CD, Capriccio, )
Schnittke, Alfred --- Film Music Vol. III--- (CD, Capriccio, )
Schwartz, David --- Magic in the Water--- (CD, Varese, )
Scott, John --- Becoming Colette--- (CD, JOS, )
Scott, John --- Cousteau: Stairway to the Sea--- (CD, JOS, )
Scott, John --- Odyssee of the Belem - 4 symphonic tableaux for orchestra --- (CD, JOS, )
Scott, John --- The Lucona Affair--- (CD, JOS, )
Scott, John --- The Mill on the Floss--- (CD, JOS, )
Scott, John --- The Swiss Family Robinson--- (CD, JOS, )
Serra, Eric --- Decalage horaire--- (CD, Eastwest France, 2002)
Serra, Eric --- Kamikaze--- (CD, Moleskin 18202, )
Serra, Eric --- Le dernier combat--- (LP, RCA PL 37760, 1983)
Sherman, Richard M. --- In Search of the Castaways (CoComposer William Alwyn)--- (LP, Disneyland, )
Sherman, Richard M. --- Snoopy Come Home--- (LP, , )
Sherman, Richard M. --- The Magic of Lassie--- (LP, , )
Sherman, Richard M. --- Tom Sawyer + Huckleberry Finn (1974)--- (CD, Varese, 2004)
Shire, David --- David Shire at the Movies (incl. Suite for Cocktail Piano)--- (CD, Kritzerland, )
Shostakovich, Dmitri --- Hamlet + The Gadfly--- (CD, Capriccio, )
Shostakovich, Dmitri --- Odna--- (CD, Naxos, 2008)
Shostakovich, Dmitri --- Soja + The Fall of Berlin--- (CD, Capriccio, )
Shostakovich, Dmitri --- The Film Music of Dimitri Shostakovich, Vol. 3 --- (CD, Chandos, 2006)
Silverstein, Shel --- Ned Kelly--- (LP, , )
Steiner, Max --- Great Love Themes From Motion Pictures--- (LP, RCA Victor LPM 1170, )
Steiner, Max --- Marjorie Morningstar (2 CDs)--- (CD, Screen Archives, )
Tiomkin, Dimitri --- High Noon + The Alamo + 55 Days at Peking + Cyrano de Bergerac--- (CD, RCA, 1995)
Waxman, Franz --- My Cousin Rachel--- (CD, Varese, 2008)
Waxman, Franz --- Night and the City (CoComposer Benjamin Frankel)--- (CD, Screen Archives, 2003)
Williams, John --- America, the Dream Goes On--- (CD, Philips, 1985)
Williams, John --- Jazz Beginnings (1956-1958) (2 CDs)--- (CD, Fresh Sound, 2007)
Williams, John --- Pops on the March--- (CD, Philips, 1980)
Williams, John --- Salute to America--- (CD, Sony, 1996)
Young, Christopher --- Judas Kiss (+ 4 tracks from other scores)--- (CD, Citadel STC 77130, 2000)
Young, Christopher --- Scenes of the Crime + A Child's Game--- (CD, Buysoundtrax, 2008)
Young, Victor --- Cinema Rhapsodies - The Musical Genius of Victor Young--- (CD, , )
Young, Victor --- The Greatest Show on Earth--- (LP, RCA Victor LPM 3018, )

A link from isbum

2009-04-12T11:04:00.000-07:00

"Rollercoaster" 1977 Cd @320
By
Lalo Schifrin

http://rapidshare.com/files/219074924/LS_RollercoasterAlphVer.zip

Many thanks to Steve for his fine work

2009-04-12T11:02:00.001-07:00

Schifrin Meets Piazzolla: Jazz Meets Tango (Live Concert)
http://rapidshare.com/files/111035206/10_aspia_10_By_Team_WarezSoftx.rar

Dizzy Gillespie & Lalo Schifrin - Free Ride
http://rapidshare.com/files/198146168/_1977__Free_Ride.rar

Lalo Schifrin - Gypsies
http://rapidshare.com/files/79632813/LaloSchifrin_Gypsies.zip

Lalo Schifrin - Blues For Johann Sebastian
http://rapidshare.com/files/151059693/LS_BluesForJohannSebastian.zip

Lalo Schifrin - There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
http://rapidshare.com/files/30983577/Lalo_Schifrin_-_Theres_A_Whole_Lalo_Schifrin_Goin_On_-_1967.rar

Lalo Schifrin - Brazilian Jazz
http://rapidshare.com/files/108858227/Lalo_Schifrin_-__Brazilian_Jazz.rar

Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy On The French Riviera (Lalo Schifrin on the piano)
http://rapidshare.com/files/114563774/1962_Dizzy_on_the_french_Riviera.zip

A new book on Schifrin in the making

2009-04-12T10:53:00.001-07:00

Being not satisfied with the two available books on Schifrin, I'm working since two weeks on a private project: I've collected everything written I could find on the internet on Schifrin and collected all of it into a handsome DIN A5 brochure that has 260 pages so far.

Interviews, biographies, reviews and lots of photos can be found in it, and when it is ready I can send it by e-mail to interested Schifrin fans.

I will state here when it is the time and you may leave your e-mail address then in a comment.

Another thing: does someone perhaps have a translation of that French book on Schifrin or perhaps the book as a text file so that we can try an automatic translation ?

Many thanks to THE MASTER CYLINDER

2009-04-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

MC 252 Rage
Composer & Artists:Lalo Schifrin
Source:VHS/DVD Rip
Link:http://www.mediafire.com/?unzcjhzucbl
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MC 266 Class of 1984
Composer & Artists:Lalo Schifrin & (VA)
Source:DVD Rip & MP3 Files
Link:http://www.mediafire.com/?mdztgygnsjf
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And here's an extraordinary non-Schifrin score that I can highly recommend:

MC 296 The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Composer & Artists:Walter Schumann
Source:DVD Rip & MP3 Files
Link:http://www.mediafire.com/?ymotyeqymw5

I'm still alive...

2008-12-02T10:20:00.000-08:00

... but way too busy downloading all that great stuff that is available on the net.

Come on and join the fun at
http://isbumsplace.blogspot.com/

By the way, coming soon at the soundtrack dealer of your choice is
THE DEAD POOL (Aleph Records)
and
RETURN TO THE RIVER KWAI (Harkit Records)

The latest releases by the maestro were
WAY WAY OUT / BRADDOCK (Intrada)
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED (expanded)
PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT, I LOVE YOU (Film Score Monthly)
SUDDEN IMPACT (Aleph)
MANNIX (original release, first time on CD)

Buy 'em all !

For information on all other Schifrin releases so far visit
http://www.dougpayne.com/schifrin.htm

5 Schifrin records here

2008-05-12T04:23:00.000-07:00

http://filmmusic.ru/tag/lalo-schifrin/

Sol Madrid
Most Wanted (sampler)
Don Quixote
No One Home (jazz)
Magnum Force

Schifrin's ROLLERCOASTER

2008-04-06T06:12:00.016-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/102614028/LS1972_RC.rar.html

Mancini's COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

2008-04-06T06:12:00.014-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/79250017/M_C.rar.html

Robert Russel Bennett's - Armed Forces Suite

2008-04-06T06:12:00.013-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/88753863/Army.rar.html

Bob Sharples BATTLE STEREO

2008-04-06T06:12:00.012-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/91656399/Stereo.rar.html

Leroy Anderson Conducts

2008-04-06T06:12:00.011-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/101994797/Laroy_Anderson.rar.html

Paul Weston's MUSIC FROM HOLLYWOOD

2008-04-06T06:12:00.010-07:00

Great cover art !

http://rapidshare.com/files/104483167/Paul_Weston_Hi-Fi.rar.html

Schifrin's PIANO, STRINGS AND BOSSA NOVA

2008-04-06T06:12:00.009-07:00

from 1961

http://rapidshare.com/files/103915409/lalo_schifrin_-_piano_strings_and_bossa_nova.rar

Geoff Love Plays TV Themes

2008-04-06T06:12:00.007-07:00

above: Cover of Vol. 2
http://rapidshare.com/files/104899530/Your_Favourite_TV_Themes.rar
+
Vol. 1
http://rapidshare.com/files/102030992/GLOYTTVT.rar

Just in case you want some jazz...

2008-04-06T06:12:00.006-07:00

...then go here:

http://andifyouhadtwocoats.blogspot.com/

There are about a million jazz records, among them several by Schifrin, Quincy Jones and Gil Melle.

Ken Thorne: THE PROTECTOR

2008-04-06T06:12:00.005-07:00

This LP was only issued in Japan.

http://rapidshare.com/files/103640899/TP.rar

Password: horsewoman

Cover:
http://www.flashup.com/i/4/2/62/gr_43328_876326_559407.jpg
http://www.flashup.com/i/4/2/62/gr_43328_876329_191852.jpg

Giacchino's CLOVERFIELD Overture

2008-04-06T06:12:00.004-07:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/104969326/Roar___Cloverfield_Overture_.mp3.html

A great track that is some sort of hommage to Akira Ifukube.

749 records I'm still searching

2008-04-06T06:12:00.003-07:00

look in comment for complete list.

15.267 complete albums I have so far, which make up for about 95%.

Please help me with the other 5%...

Schifrin's SOL MADRID

2008-04-06T06:12:00.002-07:00

http://filmmusic.ru/2008/01/18/soundtrack-sol-madrid/

Many thanks to www.filmmusic.ru !!!

Alex North: An American Road

2008-04-06T06:12:00.001-07:00

A very interesting 33min-documentary on the production of Ford automobiles with wall-to-wall music by North can be watched here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3837418395711753485

Schifrin's jazz record NO ONE HOME

2008-04-06T06:12:00.000-07:00

http://filmmusic.ru/2008/01/24/no-one-home-lalo-schifrin/#more-360

Also a lot of interesting game music at this blog.

Yuji Ohno Without End

2008-03-22T09:42:00.001-07:00

At this great blog:

http://my.opera.com/zaratozom/blog/

you can find a lot of LUPIN III CDs.

It has about 40 records by Yuji Ohno, who composed and performed on some very fine jazz records you can download there. If you like Schifrin's small group jazz, you will probably like them, too.

Movie Recommendation

2008-03-22T09:28:00.000-07:00

The best movie I've seen in months is "Vantage Point" ("8 Blickwinkel" in Germany).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443274/

For my humble, but undisputable taste it's the greatest political thriller since "Murder at 1600".

YouTube is such a great thing

2008-03-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

Here is the greatest bollywood dance sequence ever:

Jaan Pehechaan Ho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEnG_DEB1I

and by the incredible Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan we have his immortal song
Sanson Ki Mala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3HU4neM7bo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3P80bkt3xg&feature=related

and did you now that the first version of the credits of Star Wars were designed by Saul Bass ? When they changed the credits, John Williams also had to compose a new score.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25t-PQDn5A

right now they are filming a remake of "300" with animals. Here are the first scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEdJdGlUmbc

By now everyone will probably know "Batman Vs. Alien Vs. Predator", but in case you don't, give it a watch (so it will know the time).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDjeiRwBv2A

Schifrin 1963 Bossa Nova

2008-03-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2007/04/eddie-harris-bossa-nova.html

Together with Eddie Harris.

Many thanks to the ORGY IN RHYTHM blog for these fantastic downloads.

Turntable Time Vol. 9: Schifrin's SPECTRUM

2008-03-22T04:51:00.000-07:00

Only available as a very old LP is Lalo Schifrin's SPECTRUM from 1957, a record where he should be credited as Lalo "Mantovani" Schifrin.

But for all hardcore fans this of course is a must.

http://rapidshare.com/files/64686529/Schifrin_Lalo___Spectrum____A_.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/64688358/Schifrin_Lalo___Spectrum____B_.mp3

Turntable Time Vol. 8: Finally the real MANDINGO !

2008-03-22T04:46:00.000-07:00

Side A of the bootleg LP has Maurice Jarre's Mandingo and Topaz (both taken just from the movie):

http://rapidshare.com/files/78847975/mandingo_a.mp3

Side B has Roy Budd's "Catlow and Other Themes":

http://rapidshare.com/files/78850179/mandingo_b__Catlow_.mp3

Schifrin's THE NEW CONTINENT

2008-03-22T04:44:00.000-07:00

http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2008/01/dizzy-gillespie-new-continent.html

A rare jazz composition by Schifrin

2008-03-22T04:43:00.000-07:00

http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2007/10/cannonball-adderley-quintet-and.html

Lalo Schifrin was responsible for Dialogues For Jazz Quintet and Orchestra.

Turntable Time Vol. 7: The Strangest Lalo Schifrin Record !

2007-11-21T03:29:00.001-08:00

In 1979 Schifrin became one-time producer and was in an unknown way involved in this rather dull disco LP, which later even appeared on Avantz as CD.

On the CD the performers are credited as "The Lalo Schifrin Orchestra", but Schifrin himself stated that he was not involved in any composing, arranging, conducting or performing of this record. However, it says in bold letters "Production Lalo Schifrin" on the original LP, so make out of this what you like.

But the music doesn't sound like Schifrin at all (it's even worse than "Fire and Ice"), you may like it, if you are Disco Stu, but for Schifrin fans it's just to complete the collection.

http://rapidshare.com/files/69869840/Schifrin_Lalo___1979____producer____Night_Flight____Composed_by_P.J._Ross_and_Eddy_Warner_.rar

Best Bollywood Song Ever !!!

2007-11-21T03:15:00.000-08:00

I just downloaded the score to KHAL NAYAK (1993), listened to the first track "Choli Ke Peechhe" and I'm simply overwhelmed. This is one of the coolest, if not THE coolest Bollywood song I've ever heard ! If you like Bollywood, I cannot recommend it strongly enough, you will not be disappointed.

Many thanks to Musical Mushroom (http://ylow.blogspot.com/) for this great upload !)

256kbps
pw=ylow.blogspot.com

http://rapidshare.com/files/67705174/KNostcr.rar

...and here's another Bollywood record from the same site:
http://rapidshare.com/files/67705694/Mostcr.rar

Turntable Time Vol. 6: Let's Go West

2007-10-24T13:58:00.005-07:00

Fess Parker, famous for his vocal on "Davy Crockett", recorded in 1957 a LP for Disneyland called "Cowboy and Indian Songs" with other western songs in a similar style.

http://rapidshare.com/files/63863182/Parker_Fess___Cowboy_and_Indian_Songs.mp3

1. The Ballad of Davy Crockett 2:57
2. The Ghosts of the Old San Juan 3:02
3. Pecos Bill 3:35
4. Hunter's Return 3:10
5. Old Timer 2:23
6. Pioneer's Prayer 2:23
7. Wringle Wrangle 2:13
8. The Ballad of John Colter 3:11
9. I'm Lonely My Darling 1:20
10. A Cowboy Needs a Horse 2:09
11. I Gave My Love (The Riddle Song) 2:17
12. Goodnight Little Wrangler 2:36

Goldsmith Finale

2007-10-24T13:58:00.004-07:00

As the last volume is rather short, I present you both vol. 7 and 8 today:

http://rapidshare.com/files/64118619/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/64119417/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_8.rar

Covered are the years from 1988 to 2003, there is a lot of great action music included. Rare tracks: "Brotherhood of the Gun" (aka "Hollister") and "Judge Dredd Trailer Music".

I hope you all liked this little Goldsmith retrospective, most of the albums included in my eight volumes are still available so if you liked the music, pay this site a visit:
http://www.screenarchives.com/composer.cfm?composerID=448

For more information on Jerry Goldsmith, just go here:
http://www.jerrygoldsmithonline.com/
http://ostrack.web.infoseek.co.jp/eindex.htm

Turntable Time Vol. 5: One for the Irish

2007-10-24T13:58:00.003-07:00

I always loved patriotic music, either instrumental or vocal.

One of my favorite records of this genre I picked up a long time ago as a bargain LP, and I'm happy that I can now listen to it again with my new record player.

Included is the motto of all film music fans: "We shall overcome".
http://rapidshare.com/files/63866338/McDonagh_Owen___Songs_of_Irish_Civil_Rights.mp3

Jerry Goldsmith Strikes Again

2007-10-24T13:58:00.002-07:00

We are moving through the end of our little series, today is vol. 6 of the 8-part series covering the years from 1982 to 1987.

http://rapidshare.com/files/64123344/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_6.rar

Featured with three tracks each are "Under Fire", "Link" and "Lionheart", also included are the fine marches from "Supergirl", "King Solomon's Mines" and "Lionheart". And we have a track from "The Explorers" that will appear again there again in "Leviathan" (wait for tomorrow !)

Be seeing you !

It's Goldsmith time again

2007-10-24T13:58:00.001-07:00

...here's vol. 5:

http://rapidshare.com/files/64111041/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_5.rar

This time featuring the SF classics "Alien", "Star Trek" and "Outland" plus the great themes of "Masada" and "The First Great Train Robbery".

Special feature: the previously unreleased main title of "Players", a fine action track in typical Goldsmith style !

Three volumes still coming - be here tomorrow !

Goldsmith Vol. 4

2007-10-24T13:58:00.000-07:00

And here's another installment of our journey through the master's works, this time covering the years from 1973 to 1978:
http://rapidshare.com/files/64106580/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_4.rar

Besides one of his finest western themes, "Breakheart Pass", this collection features two Omen movies and the incredible "Wind and the Lion". And what about "Capricorn One" ? One of the finest action tracks Goldsmith ever composed !

Be here again tomorrow for vol. 5 !

Turntable Time Vol. 4: A soundtrack you will NEVER forget

2007-10-22T03:35:00.006-07:00

There are a lot of movie soundtracks which feature classical music, among the most popular are "The Exorcist", "2001 - A Space Odyssee" and "A Clockwork Orange".
One lesser known example is "The Female Prisoner", a french movie from 1968 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063458/) which had a soundtrack release featuring music by Anton Webern, Gustav Mahler und Luciano Berio.
The Berio piece, which runs for the complete B-side of the LP (20:47), is called "Visage" and is scored for magnetic tape, the voice of Cathy Berberian and electronic sounds. It was composed in 1961, in a time when electronic sounds were very new to the music scene ("Forbidden Planet" was just five years before), the first records employing primitive synthsizers came years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio
And if you think you heard avantgarde music before, try this one.
There have been hundreds of scores for horror movies in the past decades, but I never heard one that is more frightening than "Visage". Although this wasn't intended by Berio, this work by him would fit in a movie like "Castle Freak" or "The Keep" perfectly.
And if you want to scare not only yourself but your neighbors as well, play "Visage" real loud and in the dark. If you dare to start it that way, I'm sure that you will at least change the volume.
And after hearing keep in mind that this is not crap but high art.
Happy Halloween !
http://rapidshare.com/files/64684840/_various___OST____The_Female_Prisoner____A_.mp3
The following link has Berio's "Visage":
http://rapidshare.com/files/64682017/_various___OST____The_Female_Prisoner____B_.mp3

Goldsmith Vol. 3

2007-10-22T03:35:00.005-07:00

We continue our journey through the works of Jerry Goldsmith with the years 1969-1973, which of course feature more of the stuff you already heard. But one cannot have enough of this great music.

http://rapidshare.com/files/64102511/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_3.rar

Justine, Patton, Ace Eli, David Lev, Cable Hogue, Anna, Barnaby Jones and the whole Walton family wish you happy listening !

Have fun and see you same time tomorrow for vol. 4 !

Jackie Chan's Dragon Fist

2007-10-22T03:35:00.004-07:00

http://ylow.blogspot.com/2007/08/jackie-chan-dragon-fist-ost.html

Several other Chan records also on this blog.

Also "Howard the Duck" here:

http://ylow.blogspot.com/2007/07/va-howard-duck-ost.html

Vladimir Vissotsky - Self-Portrait (1981)

2007-10-22T03:35:00.003-07:00

Just found this record by the great (political) russian folk singer:

http://rapidshare.com/files/61427419/VV-SPvr.rar
(PW: ylow.blogspot.com)

It's highly recommendable, this is music with artistic integrity that comes straight from the heart.

Ever saw "White Nights" ? When Barishnikov visits Helen Mirren in the theatre, he then dances to a song by Vissotzky. One of cinema's finest moments which I never forgot (and it's about 20 years since then !). From then on I was hooked on Vissotzky's music.

Brother Sun and Sister Moon

2007-10-22T03:35:00.002-07:00

I got a request concerning the Donovan soundtrack for this movie and just stumbled upon the link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/61673894/BSSM-DON-1972-ISIL-www.viagemusical.blogspot.com.rar.html

And here is also the Riz Ortolani version:

http://rapidshare.com/files/20700854/ISIL-RO-www.viagemusical.blogspot.com.rar.html

Turntable Time Vol. 3: A Schifrin record that will not be released on Aleph

2007-10-22T03:35:00.001-07:00

Why not, you may ask.

Well, the reason may be that this is not really one of Schifrin's greatest acomplishments. If it wasn't composed by Schifrin, one even might say it is crap. But even to the devoted fan it would be hard to consider it a masterpiece.

What the hell I'm talking about ?

I speak of his attempt to make a "pop" record, after he tried with two disco tracks on the "Nunzio" score (which aren't that bad) also in 1978 he made a full LP in disco style called "Fire and Ice", orchestrated by his pupil Kim Richmond and with lyrics by his wife Donna ("Burn, Baby, Burn").

It doesn't start that bad, like a less quality variation of the Rollercoaster theme (1977), but from there it goes down the hill. But perhaps this is just my taste and you all will think that this record is the best thing Schifrin ever made. Could be, but it's unlikely.

But listen to it yourself:
http://rapidshare.com/files/64327449/Schifrin_Lalo___Fire_and_Ice____A_.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/64329322/Schifrin_Lalo___Fire_and_Ice____B_.mp3

Goldsmith Continued

2007-10-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

Vol. 2 of the 150 greatest Goldsmith tracks:

http://rapidshare.com/files/64098393/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_2.rar

This time we continue the retrospective from 1966 to 1969, including such great scores as "The Flim-Flam Man", "The Planet of the Apes" and no less than three rousing westerns !

Come back tomorrow for vol. 3...

You may now throw away your complete Jerry Goldsmith collection...

2007-10-20T04:06:00.002-07:00

...because starting today is the 8-part series "Jerry Goldsmith - 150 Greatest Tracks".

150 tracks from the original soundtracks in chronological order, starting in 1963 with "Lilies of the Field" and ending in 2003 with "Looney Tunes Back in Action".

It includes all the great action tracks, all the fantastic western themes, all the fine vocals and all of the marvellous TV themes plus much more.

Not included is: boring music.

Of course it's highly subjective, but I think it includes the music almost every film music fan likes to hear. But be warned: if your favorite film composers are Victor Young and Frank Skinner, this collection may not be your taste.

Today we start with tracks from 1963 to 1966, which among others features music from "Lilies of the Field", two westerns and the fantastic "Blue Max":
http://rapidshare.com/files/64094189/Goldsmith_Jerry___150_Greatest_Hits_Vol_1.rar

Come back tomorrow for Vol. 2 !

Great "new" blog

2007-10-20T04:06:00.001-07:00

Some fine blogs exist for weeks and weeks without being noticed (at least by me)... this is one of them.
http://melancholiasubobscura.blogspot.com/
It has some great Carl Davis scores for silent movies, "Medal of Honor" game scores by Giacchino and Lennertz and some modern classical music.

Well worth a visit !

Turntable Time Vol. 2

2007-10-20T04:06:00.000-07:00

Considering the amount of music he composed, it's amazing how little of it is available on music blogs. Looks like good ol' Miki is not so popular after all these years.
You will know several of Mikis Theodorakis' soundtracks (like "Zorba the Greek"), but like Philip Glass he composed A LOT OF classical music, including operas and probably some thousand songs.
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikis_Theodorakis
Here is now one of his finest orchestral works, "March of the Spirit" from 1969, also on this LP is "Oedipus Tyrannus".
Vocals by Maria Farandouri (as Morricone had his Edda, Theodorakis had his Maria),
MT Conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
The complete LP consists of all three links.
http://rapidshare.com/files/63858018/Theodorakis_Mikis___March_of_the_Spirit____A_.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/63859313/Theodorakis_Mikis___March_of_the_Spirit____B_.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/63860342/Theodorakis_Mikis___March_of_the_Spirit__Oedipus_Tyranus____B_.mp3

Turntable Time Vol. 1

2007-10-20T03:18:00.000-07:00

After a long time living with some thousand records (you know, these round big black things) and no possibility to play them (my old record player was due to place problems not connected to the receiver) I finally have a turntable again !

A computer shop round the corner had this great cheap thingy (about 60 bucks) that has a USB connection for the PC.

With it came the Audacity software (which you can also download from the net), and it is now very easy to record a record (how about recording a lot of them and breaking a record ? But be careful not to break a record in the process) and save them as mp3.

So now all this great music that was unavailable to me (because no-one else loaded this up) can now be listened again, and perhaps not only by me but by you, too (if I will have the strength and will and power to upload them).

I started mp3ing (nice word) one of the first LPs of my life, Mike Batt's "Wombling Songs", recorded August 1973. I assume that was Batt's first LP, and it's very nice happy-go-lucky music featuring some fine orchestrations. Unbelievable that such great music was the POP music of the time. We went a lot down the hill in the last 30 years...

Here is some info on the Wombles:

http://www.toonhound.com/wombles.htm

Some words on my mp3-transfers: I just record them while I'm listening to them, so there will be only two tracks for each LP (one for each side, my first transfers even have just 1 track). Also, I don't have the time to filter the records, so some surface noice will be there. But considering the age of the records and the cheap quality of the turntable to my almost deaf ears they actually sound quite good. If one of you would like to separate the tracks and do some noice reduction, be my guest !

Just had the idea of calculating how many albums I got new each day since this beginning of my collection... if I count in each different mp3, LP and CD I have today, this will be 2 albums each day for the last 34 years. Madness reigns supreme, as Dave Letterman once said. Before I started with mp3, this was about 1, but all these great music blogs (many thanks to you all) expanded my collection considerably.

Concerning the Wombles, there are at least 5 other albums written by Mike Batt for this "band":
Remember You're a Womble (1974) (don't have this one)
Keep on Womling (1974)
Superwombling (1975)
Wombling Free (1978) (Soundtrack for a Wombles movie !)
The Wombles Christmas Album (1983)

The soundtrack even includes some orchestral score by Batt !

So, as first post in a hopefully long series of mp3s from my record collection, here is Mike Batt's "Wombling Songs":

http://rapidshare.com/files/63851673/Batt_Wombling_Songs.mp3

If you search soundtrack records...

2007-10-13T10:41:00.001-07:00

I can now offer you almost 12,000 complete albums, probably 90% of them film music.

The last weeks I spend a lot of time compiling complete composer discographies and checked what I already have.

Of my favorite 55 composers I have now hopefully complete lists and I'm able to say very precisely which records I'm missing.

So far these are 651 titles, some of them ultra-rare, but a lot of them also quite common, I simply did not see them being posted so far.

Look in the first comment to this post to see my want list.

If you are interested in ANY record by my "complete composers" (see 2nd comment) for a list of these composers) that is NOT in the list, chances are very high that I have it. If you want it, you just have to find or upload something of my want list.

So let us help each other to complete our collections !

FINALLY !!!

2007-10-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

I've searched this for a VERY long time, and now fellow collector janus2810 was so kind and posted this rarest of all rare Schifrin LPs.

GRABADO EN VIVO!!
Lalo Schifrin en Buenos Aires
Live in Buenos Aires: October 29, 1970
Lalo Schifrin (p); Horacio Malvicino (g); Alfredo Remus (b); Pichi Mazzei (d).

a. Bullet (sic) (Lalo Schifrin) - 8:40
b. Blues for Johann Sebastian (Lalo Schifrin) - 10:50
c. Mannix (Lalo Schifrin) - 2:10
d. Con Alma (Dizzy Gillespie) - 8:00
e. Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie) - 8:34
f. The Cat (Lalo Schifrin) - 7:04

Issues: a-f on RCA Victor (Arg) AVS-4096.
Producer: Alvin Bart
Notes: Emilio A. Stevanovitch

http://rapidshare.com/files/62256262/En_Grabado_Vivo__Live_in_Buenos_Aires.rar

Many many thanks to janus2810 !!!

The MASTER CYLINDER has done it again !!!

2007-09-09T05:53:00.000-07:00

This fantastic blog compiled most of the Lalo Schifrin links that are currently available on the net:

Battle Creek Brawl
Boulevard Nights
Coogans Bluff
Don Quijote De La Mancha (1983) Mini Series
Gillespiana Live (1998)
Gone With The Wave
Ins and Outs
Joe Kidd
Mannix
Medical Center and Other Great Themes
Most Wanted
New Fantasy
No Ones Home
Nunzio
Planet of the Apes (TV series)
Roller Coaster
Sol Madrid
The Competition
The Liquidator
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Fiddlesticks Affair (Bootleg)
The Reel Lalo Schifrin
Voyage of the Damned

Again, many thanks to the MASTER CYLINDER for his fantastic work !

Cannibals en masse

2007-08-19T15:43:00.001-07:00

Some days ago I downloaded one of the movies which try to tell the famous German cannibalism case which happened some years ago. I find it very interesting that there are FOUR movies which essentially have the same "based on real events" plot but all of them are not allowed to be shown in Germany.

This is because the guy who tried to get some delicatessen did not allow the filmmakers to present his case and German law did not overrule this with artistic concerns. Well, Mr. Meiwes can now stay in prison for the rest of his life with the glory that there are four biographical pictures about him that only very few people will ever see.

That's probably no big loss to the film world, and judging from the one movie I saw (Marian Dora's "Cannibal") you have to be quite weird yourself to enjoy this kind of picture.

Nonetheless, "Cannibal" is an INTERESTING picture, but only watch it if you are accustomed to very gory scenes and don't mind some homosexual action, too. If you consider that everything more or less happened that way you get an idea in what a strange world we are all living. It's an interesting discussion wether we need to see that on a big screen, but I think if such a film stays to the facts (which this one probably does) it's not a misconception to present it to mature viewers. See it as a kind of documentary and a disturbing view in some very distorted minds.

Here is a mini-filmography of the four films:

Dein Herz in meinem Hirn (2005) directed by Rosa von Praunheim (starring Martin Molitor & Martin Ontrop)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418345/

Cannibal (2005) directed by Marian Dora (starring Carsten Frank & Victor Brandl)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910548/

Rohtenburg (2006) directed by Martin Weisz (starring Thomas Kretschmann & Keri Russell)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448400/

Cannibal (aka "Diary of a Cannibal") (2006) directed by Ulli Lommel (starring Jillian Swanson & Trevor Parsons)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826817/
available on DVD here:
http://www.laserzone.ch/dvd/detail/1004890.htm

Here's an interesting German article on the first two movies:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21403/1.html

The exception of the rule

2007-08-19T15:43:00.000-07:00

Normally I don't do re-uploads, but when I got the request from X-Y-Z Cosmonaut for the Sammy Davis album I felt a little bit honored: over the last 18 months I downloaded hundreds of records and a lot of movies from his two great blogs, so it's more than fair that I can give at least one record back to him:

http://rapidshare.com/files/50037445/Davis_jr_Sammy___1976___The_Song_And_Dance_Man.rar
If someone does not know his blogs, got there immediately:
(for records)
http://my.opera.com/xyzcosmonaut/blog/
(for incredibly strange and funny movies)
http://55bells.blogspot.com/

Concerning other re-uploads, I have to say that I post mostly links here from other music blogs, and if these links get deleted, well, that's the way it goes. The early bird catches the worm, you know.

As I always write, I'm very much interested in trading and have a huge want list (look in my posts of the last days), so if you want certain titles just look that you can also offer something to me.

THE MASTER CYLINDER has some fantastic things to offer !!!

2007-08-17T14:41:00.000-07:00

There is a blog called THE MASTER CYLINDER where a devoted film music fan offers a lot of great things, especially home-made DVD-cuts.

From Lalo Schifrin, there are 14 incredible titles:

Class of '84
http://lix.in/f6ae62

Day of the Animals
http://lix.in/95112d

Prime Cut
http://lix.in/7d6b29

The Manitou
http://lix.in/deb25f

Battle Creek Brawl
http://lix.in/bd1557

Boulevard Nights
http://lix.in/283f4a

Coogan's Bluff
http://lix.in/8b580c

Harry in Your Pocket
http://lix.in/e73cb4

Joe Kidd
http://lix.in/084abd

Murderer's Row
http://lix.in/2cf9b3

Nunzio
http://lix.in/68142d

The Competition
http://lix.in/c2f17a

The Dead Pool
http://lix.in/d16fc1

The President's Analyst
http://lix.in/106cea

Holy schlamoly, this is like a 2nd Aleph label releasing Lalo Schifrin scores !!!

And here's JEREMIAH JOHNSON by John Rubinstein and Tim McIntire:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0yce211g2gz

Many thanks to THE MASTER CYLINDER for his fantastic work !!!

Complete Lalo Schifrin discography

2007-08-14T14:16:00.000-07:00

In the comments of this post you find a COMPLETE listing of all the recordings of Lalo Schifrin which were issued from 1955 to today. It is divided in two parts:

a) the titles I'm still missing

b) the titles I have

I'm very much interested in trading, but please be sure that you have something from the first list or even something that isn't in the list at all (like a homemade TV or DVD cut from a so-far unreleased movie score).

Records I'm searching

2007-08-13T14:41:00.010-07:00

In the comment of this post you will find my current want list (over 200 titles) of my favorite composers.

I'm very much interested in trading and can offer EVERYTHING by the following composers that is not part of the list.

Danny Elfman
Jerry Goldsmith
Bernard Herrmann
Maurice Jarre
Wojciech Kilar
Ennio Morricone
Lalo Schifrin
John Williams

Trades should by made by Rapidshare or Megaupload. You can find an e-mail address for contact in the comment.

For some Italo western scores, go here

2007-08-13T14:41:00.008-07:00

http://dollarirosso.blogspot.com/

if you want an almost complete Morricone collection...

2007-08-13T14:41:00.007-07:00

...just go here, the number of scores by the maestro is incredible:

http://my.opera.com/Morricone%20lover/blog/

The blogger time machine

2007-08-13T14:41:00.006-07:00

I'm typing and posting this on Wednesday, August 15th, but blogger is displaying my posts with the Monday date.

Am I caught in the Twilight Zone ?

Great new blog

2007-08-13T14:41:00.005-07:00

I found all these links at this fantastic blog:

http://stigmarestroom.blogspot.com/search/label/Soundtrack

It has a lot of scores by Zbigniev Preisner (about 17 releases !!!), Eleni Karaindrou and Bernard Herrmann.

Highly recommended !!!

4 new Lalo Schifrin links

2007-08-13T14:41:00.004-07:00

Bullitt
http://rapidshare.com/files/48319005/Lalo_Schifrin_-_Bullitt__re-recording_.rar

Dirty Harry
http://rapidshare.com/files/32749005/Lalo_Schiffrin_-_Dirty_Harry.rar

Cool Hand Luke
http://rapidshare.com/files/48323676/Lalo_Schifrin_-_Cool_Hand_Luke.rar

There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
http://rapidshare.com/files/30983577/Lalo_Schifrin_-_Theres_A_Whole_Lalo_Schifrin_Goin_On_-_1967.rar

new Wojciech Kilar links

2007-08-13T14:41:00.003-07:00

Zemsta
http://rapidshare.com/files/32997436/Wojciech_Kilar_-_Zemsta_-_2002.rar

The Ninth Gate Complete Score
http://rapidshare.com/files/32987216/Wojciech_Kilar_-_The_Ninth_Gate__DVD_Isolated_Score__-_2000.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/32989659/Wojciech_Kilar_-_The_Ninth_Gate__DVD_Isolated_Score__-_2000.part2.rar

new film score links

2007-08-13T14:41:00.002-07:00

Bernard Herrmann: Jason and the Argonauts
http://rapidshare.com/files/33482109/Bernard_Herrmann_-_Jason_And_The_Argonauts_-_1963.rar

Barry Gray: Thunderbirds
http://rapidshare.com/files/48254655/Barry_Gray_-_Thunderbirds.rar

Ron Goodwin: Those Magnificent Men...
http://rapidshare.com/files/48196124/Ron_Goodwin_-_Those_Magnificent_Men_In_Their_Flying_Machines.rar

Mychael Danna: Ararat
http://rapidshare.com/files/48331644/Michael_Danna_-_Ararat.rar

New download from isbum

2007-08-13T14:41:00.001-07:00

From the ever-active isbum here comes Schifrin's weird "Rock Requiem":

http://rapidshare.com/files/32640366/LS__Rock_Requiem.zip

Many thanks to isbum for all the things he does for the film music community !!!

Goldsmith moments

2007-08-13T14:41:00.000-07:00

I was just hearing the first tracks of the new 2-CD "Wind and the Lion" when I had again a "Jerry Goldsmith" moment, as I like to call it.

Goldsmith is one of my top favorite film composers for over 30 years now and composed probably at least a 100 incredible great tracks.

In addition to that there are tracks by him which have sections that to my taste are unbelievable great but fail as a whole due to the "film music" syndrome, the problem that a track has to follow the action on screen and therefore may be fast and soon be slow or loud and quiet within seconds.

Here is a list of some ecstatic Jerry Goldsmith moments, these sections in the tracks (and you will know which parts I mean !) are for me among the greatest moments in music and I'm very sad that these tracks doesn't continue that way.

The Wind and the Lion (2 CDs): The Raisuli/Mr. President
Bad Girls: The Hanging
Inchon: The Tanks
QB VII: Rekindling the Flame of Jehovah
Wild Rovers: Bronco Bustin'
Outland: Spiders

If you know of other tracks by Goldsmith like these, please leave a comment.

Great help

2007-08-09T15:12:00.007-07:00

The blogger help is almost perfect - if you search for "commentaries" (I wanted to know how to delete one), you get

"Your search - commentaries - did not match any answers in Blogger Help.Please change your search terms and try again."

Of course, this is a search word which has nothing to do with a blog, so why should there be any help ?

Thank got I found out myself by now how to delete a commentary.

...and by the way, I'm not dead...

2007-08-09T15:12:00.005-07:00

I've just downloaded A LOT OF STUFF the last months. My complete mp3-collection consists now of over 10.000 albums.

But I'm still searching a lot of records, especially composed by my favorite composers. I will post a complete want list soon.

A cool movie I saw today

2007-08-09T15:12:00.004-07:00

Jim Carrey's THE NUMBER 23

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE is also great.

And THE PRESTIGE, too. Not to forget DIE HARD 4.

These are the must-sees of the last weeks.

And avoid TRANSFORMERS at all cost if you are older than 10 years.

And if you watch Germany TV: the two best TV series running right now are "PRISON BREAK" and "THE UNIT".

Aaron Copland blog

2007-08-09T15:12:00.003-07:00

This is a great new blog featuring the music of Aaron Copland.

http://fanfareforcopland.blogspot.com/

Highly recommended !

Schifrin's THE CAT STRIKES AGAIN

2007-08-09T15:12:00.001-07:00

Organ by Jimmy Smith:

http://rapidshare.com/files/47590100/Schifrin_Lalo___The_Cat_Strikes_Again____Performed_by_Jimmy_Smith_.rar

Tracks include the main theme to the Jackie Chan action movie "The Big Brawl".

Perez Prado's Concierto para bongo

2007-08-09T15:12:00.000-07:00

This is a fantastic 15 minute bongo concert. Highly recommended listening !

http://rapidshare.com/files/47658331/Kopie_von_08._Concierto_Para_Bongo.rar

Many thanks to Isbum and all you other great guys

2007-03-08T11:42:00.000-08:00

Ins and Outs
by Lalo Schifrin* a jazz album with the themes from"The Fox" & "Cool Hand Luke"
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QY58PMMH
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Schifrin's AFTER THE SUNSET.
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=872597db82725779841faee2c4b06fb4
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there is a bootleg of Lalo Schifrin's "The Dead Pool" (1988) (correct link)
http://rapidshare.com/files/17606740/LS-TheDeadPool.rar

Che!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1COI2PAB"
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The Fox" (wea France)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=09BNHZD0
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"...I'm very happy to share and introduce Pat Thomas and the music of Lalo Schifrin by this rare and obscure record..."
http://loronix.blogspot.com/
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Here is THE FOURTH PROTOCOL
http://rapidshare.com/files/19532275/the_fourth_protocol.zip.html

O.k, one link for today

2007-03-04T16:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.eefans.com/eeqr/post/article.asp?id=21692

Get it while it's there.

Things to look forward to

2007-03-04T16:35:00.000-08:00

I'm changing from a DSL 1.000 flatrate to a 6.000 one the next weeks so uploads will also work with a decent speed. Expect some new links then.

Life Goes On

2007-03-04T16:20:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to say that I'm alive and well and not living in Paris, however, I spend most of my time downloading all this great stuff all of you guys and dolls offer on the net. Since one year there are over 100 scores each week which want to be downloaded, so you get an idea how much work this makes.

Also with your help I'm watching now TV series like 24, Prison Break and Lost here in Germany just after they have been showed on American TV ! The internet is such a great thing, but alas, even more work for me. And all work and no play makes Omega a dull boy :(

If someone needs some great links where to get these things, just e-mail me privately (jordan69@arcor.de) and I will send you some addresses where you can download scores, comics and TV series. I don't like to publish these links here on the blog because of all these linkkillers who also crashed most of the links on this blog (sorry, no re-uploads).

I think I will continue with this blog in the next weeks, so please visit now and then to see if there are some news. Till then, stay alive !

Omega

Mandingo mysteries revealed

2007-01-15T13:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/lounge/lounge_4b.php

It has also lots of fine article and record covers on a lot of other easy listening artists !

A list of score downloads I found at another blog

2007-01-15T13:28:00.000-08:00

Some great scores from the comment section of YDHTVTB

2007-01-14T04:35:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to the all the original uploaders, who make this comment section such a great place to go. These scores are too great to be buried in this large comment, so I like to feature some of them here again.

Concerning Mandingo:
This file is actually not Maurice Jarre's score but one of the four records by the 70ies rock fusion band "Mandingo". Actually I listened yesterday to the record and was wondering that a western-era film like "Mandingo" had such a modern score ! So much for recognizing your favorite composer... However, it is a great and rare record well worth downloading, so give it a try ! There's a lesser-known British film/library composer involved in this "Mandingo" band, but at this moment I can't remember who.
http://rapidshare.com/files/11590945/MJ-Mandingo.rar

Maurice Jarre
Shout at the Devil
http://rapidshare.com/files/11299829/MJ-ShoutAtTheDevil.rar

Johnny Harris
Man in the Wilderness (great main theme !!!)
http://rapidshare.com/files/11365950/ManIn.ZIP.html

Mario Nascimbene
Francis of Assisi
http://rapidshare.com/files/11574746/francthemonk.ZIP.html

Dimitri Tiomkin
High Noon + Gunfight at OK Corral (both OST !!!)
http://rapidshare.com/files/11143525/DT-High_Noon_OK_Corral.rar

Max Steiner
The Caine Mutiny (for quite a time the rarest soundtrack LP EVER RELEASED !!!). In the 80ies this thing sold for over 1.000 bucks !!!
http://rapidshare.com/files/11312272/MS-TheCaineMutiny.rar

Christopher Young
U-Boats: The Wolfpack (nice score, very similiar to Goldsmith's action music)
http://rapidshare.com/files/11613075/UBoats.ZIP.html

Yvacheslav Ovchinikov
War and Peace
http://rapidshare.com/files/10751834/WAR_AND_PEACE_1968.zip.html

Akira Kurosawa Film Score Collection
http://rapidshare.com/files/10526581/Akira_Kurosawa_Vol._1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/10539483/Akira_Kurosawa_Vol._2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/10546858/Akira_Kurosawa_Vol._3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/10563390/Akira_Kurosawa_Vol._4.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/10571089/Akira_Kurosawa_Vol._5.rar.html

Georges Delerue
A Walk With Love and Death
http://rapidshare.com/files/9426100/A_Walk_with_Love_and_Death.rar.hml
Tours du monde, tours du ciel http://rapidshare.com/files/11561598/Tours_Du_Monde_Tours_Du_Ciel.rar.html

Jacques Loussier
Dark of the Sun
http://rapidshare.com/files/10313960/JL-DarkOfTheSun.rar

Billy May
Sergeants 3
http://rapidshare.com/files/10143263/BM-Sergeants3.rar

Danny Elfman
Scrooged
http://rapidshare.com/files/11158347/SCROOGED_-_Danny_Elfman.rar

Download them all, these are great scores !!!

It's time for a new Schifrinwatch

2007-01-14T04:22:00.000-08:00

From Isbum (he found it on the net) comes Latin in the Horn, an album Schifrin made in the 60ies together with trumpeter Al Hirt, who played on the Green Hornet theme (look for a LP where this is included in an older post on this blog). As always, many thanks to Isbum !!!

http://rapidshare.com/files/9213948/lalo2.rar

And from the comment section of YDHTVTB (the finest source for soundtrack records) comes Amityville Horror in the rare expanded version:

http://rapidshare.com/files/9078439/LS-AmityvilleHorror_Disc1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/9098033/LS-AmityvilleHorror_Disc2.rar

Finally, we have Schifrin's 1982 score for the Robert Redford-prison drama Brubaker:

http://rapidshare.com/files/11073745/LS-Brubaker.rar

Great 3 CD film noir compilation

2007-01-07T09:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.sexuploader.com/?d=J8JUX8MV

Classic Disney :60 Years Of Musical Magic (5 CDs)

2007-01-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.sexuploader.com/?d=1V9WIJYV

Can you resist a movie that has such a poster ?

2007-01-07T02:45:00.000-08:00

Any movie with Miho must be great...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B2CMEX9V

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IIXS10C0

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BTHZGZE0

Another rare thing from Isbum

2007-01-06T10:14:00.001-08:00

Elmer Bernstein : A Musical Tribute
USC Jazz and Thornton Orchestra
Conducted by David Spear
rec: Sept. 2006
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ONNTOHXD

Bruce Lee in Sin City

2007-01-06T09:47:00.000-08:00

John Hartigan posted three great links:

The Big Boss
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=a76562c35321f7423028b57395d5b8af

Fist of Fury
http://rapidshare.com/files/10441468/fof.rar.html

The Way of the Dragon
http://rapidshare.com/files/10443803/wotd.rar.html

All three scores are composed by Joseph Koo.
pw: brandon

Perhaps my children are safe now

2007-01-04T14:53:00.000-08:00

Daniel was so kind and posted a comment that Rapidbolt links are safe again - well, I will give it a try: here is my third compilation of Now This is Music again:
http://www.rapidbolt.com/download/6122035480555040107
http://www.rapidbolt.com/download/9175533320555040107
Let's see how long it works out. (Or, to say it with John Morris: "Hope for the best, expect the worst.")
If the file stays, I will upload other music files again soon.

Lalo Schifrin's DIRTY HARRY

2007-01-01T12:28:00.000-08:00

Dichtung und Wahrheit posted this classic Schifrin score. You can't start the new year any better !
http://dichtungundwahrheit2006.blogspot.com/2006/12/dirty-harry-1971-music-by-lalo-schifrin.html

Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

2007-01-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/9628376/bob_dylan.rar

1. Main Title Theme (Billy)
2. Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)
3. Billy 1
4. Bunkhouse Theme
5. River Theme
6. Turkey Chase
7. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
8. Final Theme
9. Billy 4
10. Billy 7

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Tony Takitani

2007-01-01T11:52:00.000-08:00

http://www.freefilestorage.info/music/ryuichi.html

password: www.AudioZ.info

Craig Armstrong Piano Works

2007-01-01T11:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.freefilestorage.info/music/piano.html

Now This is Music, Vol. 3

2007-01-01T06:19:00.000-08:00

As the first music post of the new year I'm continuing the series of my all-time favorite music tracks. The compilations feature 30 years of collecting records and contain only the finest of the finest music tracks. I would say on every 1.000 tracks I year only one comes in this list.

Because someone has deleted both the previous volumes, I'm switching to protected links from now on. Please tell me if you have any problems with downloading.

And here is the track listing of vol. 3:

01 Jarre Maurice --- The Professionals Main Title.mp3
02 (unknown) --- Sway (from Dark City) (Vocal by Anita Kelsey).mp3
03 Myers Stanley --- Cavatina.mp3
04 Morricone Ennio --- Burn Abolicao.mp3
05 Elfman Danny --- Mars Attacks Main Titles.mp3
06 Harline Leigh --- Pinocchio I've Got No Strings.mp3
07 Grusin Dave --- The Goonies Fratelli Chase.mp3
08 Jones Terry --- Dance Floral Radio edit.mp3
09 Williams John --- JFK Drummers' Salute.mp3
10 Kander John --- Cabaret Tomorrow Belongs to Me.mp3
11 Mancini Henry --- Hatari The Sounds Of Hatari.mp3
12 Nicolai Bruno --- Corri uomo corri (3 06).mp3
13 Nitzsche Jack --- One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Closing theme.m
14 Poledouris Basil --- The Hunt For Red October Hymn to Red October
15 Schifrin Lalo --- Medical Center (TV).mp3
16 Bernstein Elmer --- 1958 Saddle the Wind (Vocal by Julie London
17 Kilar Wojciech --- Dracula Vampire Hunters 3 06.mp3
18 Madonna --- Fever.mp3
19 Fielding Jerry --- The Gauntlet.mp3
20 Barry John --- Thunderball Main Title (Vocal by Tom Jones).mp3
21 Schifrin Lalo --- Coogans Bluff (0 49).mp3
22 Goldsmith Jerry --- Gremlins 2 Gremlin Credits.mp3

If you're interested in volume 1 to 3, please e-mail me at

jordan69@arcor.de

The 193 greatest scores of 193 composers

2007-01-01T04:10:00.000-08:00

And here we have chronologically the greatest 193 film music scores by as much composers. I've put them in the comment because it's such a long list.

Additions welcome !

Listmania: 50 film music one-hit wonders

2007-01-01T04:04:00.000-08:00

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)

Read Scorekeepers articles on film music

2006-12-31T09:56:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to OSTHUB who discovered the links !!!

Interviews
Klaus Badelt (05.25.06)
Bear McCreary (06.07.06)
Lalo Schifrin (06.18.06)
John Ottman (06.27.06)
Joseph LoDuca (08.21.06)
Alex Wurman (08.23.06)
Jeff Beal (09.08.06)
Chris Lennertz (09.29.06)
John Debney (10.15.06)
Howard Shore (11.15.06)
Clint Mansell (11.27.06)
David Julyan (12.19.06)
John Powell (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/31099)

Reviews
THE DAVINCI CODE (2006) by Hans Zimmer (05.06.06)
THE PROMISE (2005) by Klaus Badelt (05.25.06)
NACHO LIBRE (2006) by Danny Elfman (06.10.06)
MONSTER HOUSE (2006) by Douglas Pipes (07.12.06)
PETITES PEUR PARTAGÉS by Mark Snow (08.29.06)
ScoreKeeper Reviews The Super Fantabulous ELMER BERNSTEIN'S FILM MUSIC COLLECTION!! (10.15.06)
ScoreKeeper Reviews Danny Elfman's CHARLOTTE'S WEB Score!! (11.30.06)

Miscellaneous
Who is Composing Which Scores This Summer (and Beyond)?? (05.09.06)
Elfman Removes his Credit from NACHO LIBRE? (06.12.06)
ScoreKeeper on John Williams’ New NBC Sunday Night Football Theme (09.01.06)
ScoreKeeper on Danny Elfman’s CHARLOTTE’S WEB Interview (09.05.06)
ScoreKeeper Considers the Film Music of Fantastic Fest (10.03.06)
ScoreKeeper’s Smolderin’ Potpourri of Cool Film Music News and Bits and Things!! (10.09.06)
ScoreKeeper Re: Marilyn Manson's Cover of NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Tunes!! (10.26.06)
Basil Poledouris Is Gone (11.08.06)

Listmania: the 250 top film music composers (part 4)

2006-12-30T16:25:00.000-08:00

Finally, here are no. 151 to 250.

The works of these composers are mostly both Sin City (it's a sin to deliver such quality) and Drone City, so stay away, you have been warned !

I know there are still some fine among them (like George Bruns and Joseph Koo), but 150 are less than one might expect. Personally I like the scores in brackets, but with these composers it's the problem that there is not enough music of them on records to get them on higher positions. So curse the record producers, it's their fault ! However, if they put our a CD for EVERY TV episode Christopher Franke ever scored, he will NEVER be in the top 150. Get ridden of your crappy synthesizers and buy a composing book, guy !

Tomorrow: 50 additional composers, all of them being one-hit film music wonders !

Bates, Tyler - ()
Beck, Christophe - ()
Bernstein, Peter - ()
Blanchard, Terence - ()
Boswell, Simon - ()
Bruns, George - Jungle Book, The (1966)
Burman, Rahul Dev [256 entries in the MDB] - Shalimar (1978)
Cacavas, John - Airport '75 (1975)
Cameron, John - ()
Carpenter, John - Halloween (1978)
Chang, Gary - A Shock to the System (1990)
Cipriani, Stelvio - ()
Clausen, Alf - ()
Clouser, Charlie - ()
Cmiral, Elia - Ronin (1998)
Colombier, Michel - ()
Cooder, Ry - The Long Riders (1980)
Copeland, Steward - ()
Coulais, Bruno - Les choristes (2004)
Curtin, Hoyt - ()
Dankworth, John - ()
Danna, Mychael - ()
Debney, John - ()
Doldinger, Klaus - ()
Emerson, Keith - ()
Faltermeyer, Harold - Fletch (1985)
Fiedel, Brad - The Terminator (1981)
Franke, Christopher - ()
Frizzell, John - ()
Frizzi, Fabio - ()
Giombini, Marcello - Sabata (1969)
Goldenberg, Billy - ()
Goldsmith, Joel - ()
Goodman, Miles - ()
Gordon, Christopher - Moby Dick (TV) (1998)
Gregson-Williams, Harry - ()
Gunning, Christopher - Poirot (TV) (1989)
Hadjidakis, Manos - ()
Hagen, Earle - ()
Harline, Leigh - Pinocchio (1940)
Holmes, David - ()
Jablonsky, Steve - ()
Jaubert, Maurice - ()
Johnson, Laurie - The Avengers (TV) (1961)
Kaczmarek, Jan A. P. - ()
Kent, Rolfe - ()
Kloser, Harald - ()
Knopfler, Mark - The Princess' Bride (1987)
Koo, Joseph - Fist of Fury (1972)
Lavagnino, Angelo Francesco - ()
LoDuca, Joseph - ()
Maas, Dick - ()
Mainetti, Stefano - ()
Mandel, Johnny - ()
Manfredini, Harry - Friday the 13th (1980)
Mansell, Clint - ()
Mansfield, David - Heaven's Gate (1980)
Marianelli, Dario - ()
Martinez, Cliff - ()
May, Billy - ()
Micalizzi, Franco - ()
Mizzy, Vic - The Addams Family (TV) (1964)
Moroder, Giorgio - ()
Morris, John - ()
Mothersbaugh, Mark - ()
Nieto, José - ()
Philips, Stu - ()
Preisner, Zbigniev - ()
Rabin, Trevor - ()
Ragland, Robert O. - ()
Redford, J. A. C. - ()
Robinson, J. Peter - ()
Rose, David - ()
Savina, Carlo - ()
Sawtell, Paul - ()
Scharf, Walter - ()
Shaiman, Mark - ()
Shapiro, Theodore - ()
Siliotto, Carlo - ()
Simonetti, Claudio - ()
Skinner, Frank - ()
Small, Michael - ()
Smith, Paul J. - ()
Snow, Mark - ()
Stalling, Carl - ()
Stein, Ronald - ()
Stevens, Leith - ()
Stevens, Morton - Hawaii 5-0 (TV) (1968)
Strouse, Charles - ()
Takemitsu, Toru - Ran (1985)
Tomandandy - ()
Troost, Ernest - ()
Tyler, Brian - ()
Walker, Shirley - ()
Williams, Alan - ()
Williams, Patrick - ()
Wong, James - Green Snake (1993)

Listmania: the 250 top film music composers (part 3)

2006-12-29T11:45:00.001-08:00

And now no. 101 to 150. Each one of these has fine single themes, but complete fine scores are few and far between.

Tomorrow: 151 to 250. Enter drone city !

Armstrong, Craig - ()
Arnold, David - ()
Baxter, Les - The Sacred Idol (1959)
Beltrami, Marco - I Am Dina (2002)
Blake, Howard - The Snowman (1982)
Böttcher, Martin - Winnetou (1963)
Burwell, Carter - ()
Coppola, Carmine - Napoleon (1981)
Davis, Don - ()
Desplat, Alexandre - ()
Duning, George - ()
Edelman, Randy - Gettysburg (1993)
Eidelman, Cliff - Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
Endelman, Stephen - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
Ferrio, Gianni - L'ile mysterieuse (1973)
Fidenco, Nico - Black Emanuelle (1975)
Friedhofer, Hugo - ()
Giacchino, Michael - The Incredibles (2004)
Glennie-Smith, Nick - ()
Howard, James Newton - Falling Down (1993)
Isham, Mark - Fly Away Home (1996)
Kamen, Michel - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Karlin, Fred - Westworld (1973)
Magne, Michel - Les miserables (1982)
Mancina, Mark - ()
McNeely, Joel - ()
Myers, Stanley - The Deer Hunter (1978)
Newman, David - ()
Newman, Thomas - ()
Ottman, John - The Usual Suspects (1995)
Piccioni, Piero - ()
Portman, Rachel - ()
Powell, John - ()
Revell, Graeme - Sin City (2005)
Riddle, Nelson - ()
Ross, William - ()
Rugolo, Pete - ()
Rusticelli, Carlo - ()
Salter, Hans J. - ()
Sciascia, Armando - ()
Serra, Eric - ()
Shearmur, Edward - ()
Shore, Howard - Ed Wood (1994)
Steiner, Max - Gone With the Wind (1939)
Tangerine Dream - ()
Thorne, Ken - ()
Trovajoli, Armando - ()
Warbeck, Stephen - ()
Yared, Gabriel - Troy (Rejected score) (2004)
Young, Victor - The Quiet Man (1952)

Wow, I got a discussion running !

2006-12-29T10:45:00.000-08:00

[Cummuzunist wrote a long comment on my post, and so I like to answer it]

Again, you are totally right with every word you say. But do you want to be the lone fighter against the whole world ? You quote Mr. Styll when he said "It may be illegal, but everyone is doing it." The internet is there, and for every system created there is an anti-system coming up.

One example: there were links deleted on a lot of blogs. What did come up ? Hidden links. If they are cracked sometime, another system will come up, until this is again cracked. It's the same with copy protection on CDs and DVDs.

So how do you want to spent your life ? Do you want to go from blog to blog and perhaps actually motivate 1% of your readers to up- or download less or even nothing ? Does the music industry thank you for this ? What is the best you may succeed ? Killing a blog ? The guy who runs it will start a new one the next day, and if not, 10 other guys start new blogs every day. Concerning the internet, for the music or film industry it's like in "Starship Troopers" when the Fort is attacked by the insects.

But there are some aspects which haven't come up ever: if there is money which is not spent on the records of MP3 people download, where does this money go ? For me there are three possibilities:
1) people spent it on other records, so concerning the music industry no harm is done
2) people spent it on other goods, so concerning the industry (not only music, just in general) no harm is done (for example, I'm buying now DVDs mostly)
3) people save it and do 1) or 2) later (even if they save it till retirement) so again no harm is done

The only harm I see by music blogs is that some new composers who are not that famous will not get their royalty fees. I don't care if Madonna now only earns one million each week instead of two (actually, her links got deleted often, so she actually seems to care). But concerning film music blogs, the established composers get huge sums of money when they compose their music for the movies, so the money they loose through MP3 blogging is laughable. That might be the reason that no-one cares about soundtracks on blogs. The big companies do not care much releasing them, and they do not care if they pop up on blogs. And if you care so much for the unknown artists: in the film music scene, the composers do very often their own promo CDs because their music does not get leased. If you want this music, you can write to the composer's agent and VERY OFTEN they give you an unreleased promo CD FOR FREE !!! There are also several unknown composers who offer their scores on the Internet for download.

There is a saying in Germany: where there is no defendant, there is no judge. And in the film music scoene, there is not even a courthouse.

>The day is ending when some damned bloggers post massive lists of future shares to drive soundtrack leechers mad (Bacharach, Tiomkin, Hisaichi, Zimmer, Rosza, etc.), then upload dozens of albums a day giving away more music than anyone could ever listen to.

I'm not sure whether I understand this right. If you mean me by this, please look at my postings again. There is no link whatsoever, and there is no announcement of any music coming up. I never intended to do so, why should I (I don't earn any money with non-existent advertisements, I think that's hardly possible with the 250 clicks I get each day) ? All I did was list my favorite composers with one of their works. This even could motivate a reader to BUY such an album.

It's funny that my tiny blog now gets so much attention. In the three months I'm running the blog I personally uploaded perhaps 10 albums, all other links I presented were token from other blogs where I found them. I know large sites (look at some older postings) where there are thousands of links, there you can find all poular rock music and all current movies, so what's the big deal with my fan blog ?

Concerning my links for records by Lalo Schifrin, well, this guy is 74 now and has more millions on his bank account than I will ever have thousands. I buy his records since 30 years and attented his concerts, so I think he will continue living even if I post some links of his music here. Hell, on most of the continent no-one even KNOWS this guy. That is the thing I want to change, so concerning fame he actually profits from my blog. I'm in contact to the guy who runs the biggest Schifrin discography on the net, he saw my blog and actually downloaded some rare stuff (I'm sure he will enjoy things like the unreleased "Manitou" main title). He knows Schifrin personally, so if I'm doing such a crime here I'm sure by now I would have heard something by someone.

O.k., every type of downloading is illegal. But we could go to the extremes: copying music for a friend is illegal. Let a friend borrow a CD or even let him listening to one may hurt the artist. Listening to a CD in a shop may distract me from buying it. Taping a song from MTV is illegal, because I will not buy it afterwards. So ban all CD burners, all tape recorders, all radios (if I hear the new song by Madonna every day, why should I buy it ?). Where should we draw the line here ? Is it o.k. to burn a CD because there is this tiny percentage of the buying price that goes to the record industry ? (it's like that in Germany) The sums are so tiny (remember the price of a CDR), it's laughable.

The only decent thing may be to go to a concert of an artist and pay him personally for both the concert and a CD he will give you. Everything else is either stealing (see last paragraph) or money-making by an money-consuming industry. Should I feel bad because I spread music by an boy group that has been constructed by the industry to the tiniest detail just to cash in money ? I don't do that because I don't like to spread uninteresting music, but if I would make some teen girls happy in doing so I wouldn't feel bad about it.

We all have to think about what we do and should keep things in perspective. It's nice that you made an analogue to Hitler et all and the honest men who stopped him, but in my humble oppinion offering some records to the public is not really the same as slaughtering six million jews. On the other hand, some music nowadays is so terrible that it may have the same effect if people hear it, so I'm perhaps I'm a music Hitler by spreading such music on a blog ! But with Lalo Schifrin music of course, I'm on the sure side that will never happen.

>You have a wake-up call due you. Let's see whether Mitch Bainwol can help you with that.

Who is Mitch Bainwol ? I read his comment some days ago, but never heard of him so far. Or is that you ?

Some thoughts on communist activities...

2006-12-28T15:23:00.000-08:00

Hi commuzunist,

it's nice seeing that you are alive and well. I remember reading your posts at the beginning of the year when you discussed these matters with HansZun. Poor guy, I hope he did not kill himself :)

I understand your arguments and of course you're right. If you go for the principle, one can't argue against anything you say.

But look what is posted here and on all the other soundtrack blogs. It is often music that either never got a release or is long out of print. So what harm is done if 100 or perhaps 200 persons (the file with my 25 favorites tracks was downloaded 75 times) download such a file and enjoy a music that the industry does neglect totally ? Most of these film scores do not get a release because the big companies don't care at all.

My blog has three intentions:
1) feature the music of film composer Lalo Schifrin, which I like since 30 years (look out for the article two months ago).
2) bring unknown music to the attention of music lovers. If you look at my postings, the files offered there will not hurt the music industry much. Did you ever hear of the records I offer ?
3) to present just discovered links of the wide world of the Internet to my readers

If you think any of the files I've listed is against your principles, please tell me which and I will delete it.

I hope you will understand that the persons who run and visit the soundtrack blogs are all collectors who spent a lot of money on their collections (I have a collection of 6.000 CDs and 8.000 LPs, all paid by me). But being the fans and completists we are, of course we want to hear everything. So we will download a lot of scores, but I don't think that hurts the industry so much. As for me, I can say I download them, listen (perhaps) once to a track and then it's stored on a hard drive. It's nice to hear them, but if I won't, that's o.k. for me, too.

Last year I didn't download anything because I did not knew anything of music blogs. But I did not buy the new records either.

I give you an example: "Apocalypto" is new in the cinema. I like James Horner a little bit, so I wanted to hear the music. Accidentally I found it on a blog, downloaded it and listened to 20 minutes of it. It's not my taste so I stopped listening and since then it's blocking my hard drive. But you can be assured, if I would not have found this file, I would not have bought it, either, because I know that most film music of today is not my taste anyway. So ok, I downloaded a new record that's in stores right now but where's the harm done ? The big store here offers a possibility to hear all CDs before you buy them, so that's more or less the same.

I discovered at the Naxos website a possibility that you could listen to ALL of their records (thousands !) in complete form for a fee of about 15 $ a year. This music has far more quality than most film music records composed in the last years. So if tomorrow the whole music blog scene would collapse, I would just register there and could hear enough till the end of my life. Naxos releases more CDs each week than I could ever hear. Also there is enough music on the net that is so old that there is no copyright anymore on it, I posted such a link for 300 classical records some days ago. What about that ? Should they stop their activities also just because it's for free ?

Let's face it: you're legally and morally right. But there's no way to fight the internet and its users. The blogs are there, and for every file that is deleted 10 new pop up. It's the same as using a revolver against 1000 zombies. So why not have fun with the internet ? I hope you understand my oppinion and will enjoy your visit on my blog. Many thanks for taking the time and posting comments.

Not only war in Irak, but also on the beanfield of Milagro

2006-12-28T12:14:00.000-08:00

Beathoven requested with a very nice mail Dave Grusin's score for The Milagro Beanfield War. It was never available, but in 1989 a long suite popped up on Grusin's jazz album Migration (which is all I have). I downloaded it some weeks ago and the link is still working, so Beathoven gets lucky ! And remember, I will ask these kids in Africa if they got the second 20 from you !

http://lix.in/bc3b36
pw: winne2 (many thanks to him)

Main title of THE MANITOU available

2006-12-28T10:52:00.000-08:00

http://soundtrackrarities.blogspot.com/ was so nice of posting the previously unreleased main title of Lalo Schifrin's The Manitou, so go to his blog and download it immediately !