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It's pretty wild and angularly long-haired for a man who by then had very little hair left to get long, isn't it? I imagine it's the same 15-minute suite ("An Orchestral Fantasy") which I've got here paired with RICHTOFEN AND BROWN (or THE RED BARON)? On the Facet lable. The CD is simply called "The Film Music of Hugo Friedhofer". Seriously tinny sound though. Surprised you omitted that detail Onya, or perhaps you have a different version?
By the way, did you deliberately avoid using the possessive form in the thread title?
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I'm not a Friedhofer scholar in any way, but I don't think he ever did anything quite like PRIVATE PARTS. It's a strange brew indeed - Brechtian Nuts with Hymnal Rock. I don't know, but I imagine that Paul Bartel had at least some control over the soundtrack. I wonder if Friedhofer had a helping hand with some of the passages, which seem to me very alien to the rest of his output, especially the jazz/ rock elements.
Onya, knowing your taste just a little (a tiny wee bit), I can't think off-hand of a Friedhofer exotic(a) score which might whet your appetite. I'm sure you've tried the soundclips for the CDs released by FSM amongst others, and you've got a lot of things at the touch of a button on YouTube, just to give you an idea. One of my favourite Friedhofer scores is NEVER SO FEW (on the FSM label). It's got exotic touches due to the film's setting, but it's not lounge music. It's more a precursor of Goldsmith's Asian-tinged scores, with hauntingly beautiful little percussion glissandos (etc) as a backdrop to the bolder thematic material, kind of like little fascinating decorations. The score is also somewhat burdened by a drippy romantic theme, which apart from being old-fashioned even by the time the film came out, contrasts unfavourably (in my humble opinion - do we keep having to add that?) to his wonderful and non-drippy romantic themes from 10 years beforehand (ABOVE AND BEYOND) for instance.
Oh, and as you (Onya) asked, I really don't know if adding the apostrophe plus "s" to the composer's name would throw the search function off - I just felt like making a puerile schoolboy joke!
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The notes to the album mention that, when composing Private Parts, Friedhofer said he was striving "...for the aural equivalent of the smell of musty carpeting, termite-infested woodwork and Lysol disinfectant, the fetid characteristics of beat-up hotels on the edge of Los Angeles' skid row...".
So there you go  (And I've never heard another Friedhofer piece quite like that one either!)
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One of my favourite jazz LPs is "Jimmy Smith's Amazing Swinging Organ".
Stop tittering you at the back.
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