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 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 2:12 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I was listening to a Classic Italian Western compilation and found what I think is a very rousing, enjoyable western cue or track. (At least cool for those who like western soundtracks.)

It is from the movie Sette Winchester Per Un Masssacro by Francesco De Masi. It is listed at IMBD as "Renegade Riders." I have found no discussion at FSM about this score in the search engine.
The track is called "Seven Men."

The cue just keeps building and building. I think it would have made a great television opening title and closing end credits.

Do any of you know if this soundtrack has more solid themes like this one?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHxCIhYBvf4

Hope a few of you enjoy it.

 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 2:28 PM   
 By:   DOGBELLE   (Member)

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/chrismass61/django__ringo_and_trinita_forever___my_delicious_spaghetti_western_soundtracks/

here you go Joan.

this should keep you in I-tie westerns for a good long time.

 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 3:18 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

7 winchesters is a great score joany.
De masi wrote a lot of excellent westerns and isnt given the credit.
If you like that definitely order the triple score CD he did, Kill them all and come back alone, Sartarna dont forgive, etc.
Not a duff track on the CD.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 4:09 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

dogbelle, you posted War And Peace. Good site. Thanks.

Yes, Bill, De Masi was a great composer. I do own some of those you mentioned, but I hadn't heard the Sette Winchester score until I found this score.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 4:23 PM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

7 winchesters is a great score joany.
De masi wrote a lot of excellent westerns and isnt given the credit.
If you like that definitely order the triple score CD he did, Kill them all and come back alone, Sartarna dont forgive, etc.
Not a duff track on the CD.

Yes, I sort of have this one. I have the case & booklet, but no bloody disc in there, it went missing a few years back. I dunno. Joan's link brought it all back.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 4:26 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jS31EVh4XM

RAMBO: THE BARBARIAN

 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 4:37 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

dogbelle, you posted War And Peace. Good site. Thanks.

Yes, Bill, De Masi was a great composer. I do own some of those you mentioned, but I hadn't heard the Sette Winchester score until I found this score.

also an absolutely top gent, Joan, an italian with a very distinctive and gentle voice, almost posh english.
The guy had real style.
Every de masi score ive owned i have liked. He was far too underrated.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 5:02 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

I was looking for my Thunder 3 Cd yesterday. I think I need to spring shovel. Good score.

I think De Masi has an Italian western sound and Portman sounds like "posh english." (So Bill, do you speak with a very posh British accent?)

 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 5:21 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Nah, arma cockney geezer!! Dick van dyke its a jolly oliday with mare-ree!!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 7:34 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Here's some more prime De Masi, a slow-builder from SEVEN DOLLARS ON THE RED (1966).
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 7:48 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

And I like this one from De Masi as well. It has just a little touch of Goldsmith (or vice versa), I think.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 27, 2015 - 8:54 PM   
 By:   joan hue   (Member)

Bob, you are our resident western expert. Thanks for sharing those cues. I like both of those tracks and really like the rhythms in the Oklahoma cue.

Hollywood makes very few westerns anymore, and most of the ones I've seen in the past decade avoid the big sweeping themes like Bernstein, Moross, Broughton, or the Italian western sounds.
I'd love to have such music return.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 1:18 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

One of my favorite De Masi scores is for 1967's ANY GUN CAN PLAY. Enzo G. Castellari directed this very entertaining pastiche of Leone's Dollars trilogy. George Hilton, Edd Byrnes, and Gilbert Roland play it with a knowing wink to the audience. The whole thing is topped with De Masi's melodic score and a stirring vocal by Raul Lovecchio. (Like many songs from Italian westerns, the phonetically-sung lyrics are mainly indecipherable.) Here's a suite:
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 1:24 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Another good De Masi theme is from RINGO, THE LONE RIDER (1969). This is basically another solo trumpet with orchestral and harmonica highlights.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 1:35 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Do any of you know if [Sette Winchester Per Un Masssacro] has more solid themes like this one?


Joan: Sette Winchester Per Un Masssacro was released in the U.S. as PAYMENT IN BLOOD. I think you'll find more to like in this suite, which presents a few new themes as well as variations on the main title, including an amusingly sung end title.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 1:53 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

This De Masi song from "Quella Sporca Storia nel West" (JOHNNY HAMLET in the U.S.) is about as sweeping and lyrical as western songs come.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 2:02 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

De Masi eschews the trumpet for electric guitar and harmonica solos in this title tune from 1970's "C'e Sartana Vendi La Pistola E Comprati La Bara!" (I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin). He comes close to a surf rock beat for this heavily orchestrated track.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 2:06 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I hadn't heard this song before, from De Masi's "Quanto Costa Morire" (COST OF DYING, 1968), but I like it.
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 2:12 AM   
 By:   Gorbadoc   (Member)

Apart from the already mentioned de Masi westerns, I would like to add his extremely sweeping Arizona Colt, which is de Masi's best work I've heard so far:
 
 
 Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 2:14 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Nothing but harmonica and guitar in this theme from De Masi's "Una Bara Per Lo Sceriffo" (A LONE AND ANGRY MAN, 1965).
 
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