Last week on TCM they showed a film I had heard about, but had never seen. It was called THE WHALES OF AUGUST. I loved the film and the score by Alan Price enormously. I checked out the Soundtrack Collector website and lo and behold a CD was issued in the early days of CD's by Varese. Went straight to the Amazon website. I found one at a premium price, but who cares. It is such a joy to listen to. While sending this post, I am listening to it for the third time.
Last week on TCM they showed a film I had heard about, but had never seen. It was called THE WHALES OF AUGUST. I loved the film and the score by Alan Price enormously. I checked out the Soundtrack Collector website and lo and behold a CD was issued in the early days of CD's by Varese. Went straight to the Amazon website. I found one at a premium price, but who cares. It is such a joy to listen to. While sending this post, I am listening to it for the third time.
It's a magnificent score very nostalgic,labels will be advice to reissu this beautiful score instead of ridiculous geek things like He Man and others.
Last week on TCM they showed a film I had heard about, but had never seen. It was called THE WHALES OF AUGUST. I loved the film and the score by Alan Price enormously. I checked out the Soundtrack Collector website and lo and behold a CD was issued in the early days of CD's by Varese. Went straight to the Amazon website. I found one at a premium price, but who cares. It is such a joy to listen to. While sending this post, I am listening to it for the third time.
It's a magnificent score very nostalgic,labels will be advice to reissu this beautiful score instead of ridiculous geek things like He Man and others.
Ah! Always good to find another person who can tell the difference between beautiful music and crap.
If you're really interested in this score you might also check out the cast recording of Price's Andy Capp stage musical, based on the comic strip. One of the themes in the musical got reworked for The Whales of August, making it sound like an old sea shanty. The Andy Capp recording has been released on CD recently and should still be available through Amazon.
If you're really interested in this score you might also check out the cast recording of Price's Andy Capp stage musical, based on the comic strip. One of the themes in the musical got reworked for The Whales of August, making it sound like an old sea shanty. The Andy Capp recording has been released on CD recently and should still be available through Amazon.
Price began his collaboration with director Lindsay Anderson on the groundbreaking song score for O Lucky Man! and continued with Britannia Hospital, but Whales of August was a departure for both of them since it was much more lyrical and conventional (in a good way) than the earlier angry satirical films, and allowed Price to create a more traditional symphonic score, though it seems likely that Price wrote the tunes and conductor and arranger Derek Wadsworth had a lot to do with the orchestration.
It's a magnificent score very nostalgic,labels will be advice to reissu this beautiful score instead of ridiculous geek things like He Man and others.
There's room for both.
I agree there are less quality scores out there ...however saying that labels shouldnt release certain titles because you think they are geeky is a stupid statement... I admit im a GEEK and proud of it .
