Interesting. Some of this sounds slightly ahead of its time - maybe 5 to 10 years. A bit Kaper-ish too.
Talented guy, his music for the climatic horse stable shootout in Along The Great Divide is terrific as well. I'd love to hear that minus the bangs and horse whinnying!!!
David Buttolph did many excellent dramatic scores at 20CF in the mid to late 40's.
13 RUE MADELEINE
KISS OF DEATH
BOOMERANG
MOSS ROSE
BRASHER DOUBLOON
SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT
HOUSE ON 92nd STREET
If the music elements still exist, it would nice to see one of labels that deal with 20CF go into the "golden age" for a release of some of these dramatic scores on CD.
One of my early Buttolph favorites is The Foxes of Harrow with Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara. A very underrated film with a highly recommended release from SAE, contains Alfred Newman cues.
David Buttolph did many excellent dramatic scores at 20CF in the mid to late 40's.
13 RUE MADELEINE
KISS OF DEATH
BOOMERANG
MOSS ROSE
BRASHER DOUBLOON
SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT
HOUSE ON 92nd STREET
If the music elements still exist, it would nice to see one of labels that deal with 20CF go into the "golden age" for a release of some of these dramatic scores on CD.
I'd buy all of those Cody, so will Niall !
Buttolph's score to the WB 1953 HOUSE OF WAX is fantastic!
I've always found his main title for KISS OF DEATH thrilling. Have been a fan ever since. Actually, I have to say I became a fan in childhood, every Sunday night when I heard one of the all-time greatest western TV themes, for MAVERICK. Thank God for that FOXES OF HARROW cd, and for some of his sci-fi music on MMM (if mmmy mmmemory serves.). There are all too few Buttolph recordings out there. Thanks for this thread.
Speaking of westerns, did you ever hear his main title theme to a 1959 Randolph Scott/ WB second feature, WESTBOUND ? Simply stunning !
I remember it Cody, a really excellent Budd Boetticher western.
With the exception of the classic RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY, almost all of Randolph Scott's second feature westerns in the 50's that were of real merit were directed by Budd Boetticher. WESTBOUND had a very voluptuous lady in it named Karen Steele. The music of David Buttolph and Ms. Steele made it extra special.
Nostalgic rendition for orchestra, that Buttolph's arrangement of Poulenc's "Trois Mouvements Perpétuels ", in Hitchcock's THE ROPE. At the top of my list of Buttolph's scores deserving a release I put without hesitation LONG JOHN SILVER (1954), issued on Vinyl10" RCA-LPM 3279, but never put on CD. Pure gold.
