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Jul 17, 2014 - 6:15 PM
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MMM
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Due out near the end of July or very early August, from Monstrous Movie Music:
Three exciting western scores by Bert Shefter, Paul Dunlap, and Albert Glasser!
The last of our four imminent releases, this 2-CD set contains western music from three composers who are underrepresented in the marketplace.
THE GREAT JESSE JAMES RAID (1953) is a seldom-seen Lippert oater directed by Reginald Le Borg, and Bert Shefter wrote the solid score using a traditional (as in “enjoyable”) western musical language. In addition to the orchestral score, some fun source music heard in one of those ubiquitous western saloons is also included.
SOUND SAMPLE:
http://www.mmmrecordings.com/Audio_Samples/Music-1975-JesseJames-medley.mp3
THE BARON OF ARIZONA (1950) was Paul Dunlap’s first film assignment, and he created a wealth of themes for this early Samuel Fuller picture starring Vincent Price. About a half-hour of music survived from Dunlap’s personal audio collection, providing further evidence of what a superb composer he was.
SOUND SAMPLE:
http://www.mmmrecordings.com/Audio_Samples/Music-1976-Baron-medley.mp3
Rounding out the compilation is a wonderfully melodic western score by Albert Glasser for LAST OF THE WILD HORSES (1948). Although only 16 minutes of music exists, it reveals the “horror composer” in a completely different and hummable light!
A 28-page booklet filled with massive doses of trivia, humor, and lots of fun pictures adds to the western fun!
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Yeah its western week at mmm!!
It is still a great thing to me that there people around the world - both in the american and italian market - digitalizing and rescuing this stuff forever which would otherwise be lost bar with the movie or on about half a dozen collectors audio cassettes!!
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It would be great if someone could locate Ferde Grofe's score for the Lippert picture, THE RETURN OF JESSE JAMES. Not quite of the quality of ROCKETSHIP X-M, it still is a mighty western score, way above the norm for most examples of the genre. I actually held the 16" discs upon which the score was recorded, while visiting Albert Glasser in his studio during the 1970s. He offered them to me, but, dumb me, I declined, since I had to travel back to Florida and I was so afraid the shellac discs would be broken somewhere along the way. Only one of many of life's regrets!
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It would be great if someone could locate Ferde Grofe's score for the Lippert picture, THE RETURN OF JESSE JAMES. Not quite of the quality of ROCKETSHIP X-M, it still is a mighty western score, way above the norm for most examples of the genre. I actually held the 16" discs upon which the score was recorded, while visiting Albert Glasser in his studio during the 1970s. He offered them to me, but, dumb me, I declined, since I had to travel back to Florida and I was so afraid the shellac discs would be broken somewhere along the way. Only one of many of life's regrets!
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