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what this thread proves is that you cannot highlight how bad somebody was - even if they were - without uncovering a fan who reprimands you!
so was there no one who was universally regarded as shocking?!
I've long since learned that there isn't a bad movie that isn't loved by someone somewhere nor a great film that isn't despised by someone somewhere. Why should it be different in the film music world?
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Percy Faith?! Ferrante & Teicher?! Bert Kaempfert (who btw never recorded a movie theme album to the best of my knowledge)?! I actually enjoy their albums...
Have you ever heard of Leroy Holmes?
I don't recall an album of movie themes by Kaempfert either. However, he did release his score to "A Man Could Get Killed". One of the themes from this film became "Strangers In The Night".
I saw Ferrante & Teicher in person a few times. Their technique as pianists was first rate. Also, they often wrote their own orchestrations.
In the pop piano world, Peter Nero recorded, with full orchestra, "The Theme Scene" (RCA, 1966) which included pop songs like "Help" as well as "Ship Of Fools" and "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold".
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Ah yes, Leroy Holmes. Don't for that 4th piece of junk he did for UA records: A Star is Born
Actually I had forgotten. Thanks for reminding me ..... I think.
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Aug 21, 2014 - 6:30 PM
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dogplant
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I'm not fond of the disco version of the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND theme....
Ha, this was the first music I heard from the film, played after a radio interview with Johnny in the UK. At that time, I only knew him from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" and a vague memory of "Towering Inferno" so I was a bit puzzled, to say the least, at hearing this groovalicious poppy music. And then, I went to see the man himself conduct a suite of the music at the Royal Albert Hall 'LSO in Space' concert a week or so later. Boy, was I surprised! I am still quite fond of the disco version, and have it as a vinyl single as well as the closing track on Varese CD release of the Arista album.
No, my prize for most mutilated film theme (I won't say 'worst') goes to the wonderful Lalo Schifrin (for whom I have great affection and admiration) for his truly bonkers funkadelic arrangement of "Jaws":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKx15uDqtd4
Steve H, that 'Galactic Symphony' cover painting of the CE3K mothership is truly a wonder to behold. It looks like the aliens accidentally magnetized their spacecraft while hovering slowly over a used car lot.
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Since we too often mistake opinion for fact, let's be clear.
It's not whether cover versions are better or worse than originals, but whether you prefer one or the other. It's fine if you prefer a cover version, but that doesn't make it better.
Our responses to music are subjective not objective, and it's silly to say a cover version is better in some objective, absolutist way. Especially since it wouldn't even exist without the original.
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Here is a gorgeous Michel Legrand piece mutilated by some guy named Bill Evans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfkrseTPFA
And here is a beautiful Alex North piece desecrated by some guy named Yusef Lateef:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhqQFs7huwU
Here's that Bill Evans guy again destroying a Johnny Mandel piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrWQndgX1QU
Oh, the indignity...
You obviously don't know a thing about "some guy named Bill Evans" or jazz in general. He recorded with many jazz artists most notably Miles Davis on "Kind Of Blue", one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. He also recorded with Stan Getz, Tony Bennett, and many others. Not to mention a catalog of recordings with his own group.
Johnny Mandel respected Evans to the point where he composed pieces just for him. Mandel didn't seem to mind that Evans was "destroying" his music.
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