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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Who loves PAINT YOUR WAGON and it's Soundtrack?     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 9:44 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Got a Free LP of the Movie Soundtrack tonight in the FREE BOX at my local ON THE CORNER RECORDS. Never saw the movie but it always seemed like a big deal when I was a kid. Knew Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood were in it. I've got to see it. Always thought it was in CINERAMA, but I guess I was wrong. Seemed big and perfect for that. Love the soundtrack. I love the music of Lerner and Loewe, especially their BRIGADOON, which I was lucky to have been in a stage production of in North Hollywood in my early L.A. days. Back to PAINT YOUR WAGON. The LP included a cool Mini Poster, which I put on the front of the LP and also included a Free 12 page Full Color Souvenir Booklet. And oh how nice for free! Thanks ON THE CORNER! Please share your thoughts on PAINT YOUR WAGON Film and Score. Thanks. Great Behind the Scenes featurette on the Making of the Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08&index=8&list=PLqFYdcd0JMvYPvLk3dUZ442EAaaPxc1iI    Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 10:15 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) First of all, knowing me, you know I'm gonna lead with the correct American spelling of Frederick Loewe . . . I never thought much of the movie. I guess I'd always "bought the hype" about it being a big, bloated Josh Logan mess that served as one of the major "nails in the coffin" of the movie musical. The truth is, it was always a comparative success overseas, and didn't lose as much money on the whole as it was perceived to have lost. What finally sold me on it being a pretty good, entertaining movie, damn-the-critics, was the rare chance I was lucky to get to see it with an appreciative audience on the big screen at Lincoln Center, during a Lee Marvin retrospective series a few years back. I had a really good time and appreciated the humor, slapstick and otherwise, in the form it was meant to be seen. Don't give up on this movie until you've given it this kind of a fair chance, is all I can say. As a score, I think I still prefer the original Broadway cast album, although I do appreciate the interesting things Nelson Riddle did with the songs, and the newly-written-for-the-movie songs by Lerner and Andre Previn (also his collaborator on the Broadway score of "Coco") are pleasant too.    Posted:   Sep 24, 2016 - 10:34 PM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Thanks Sig. I've amended the Lowe to Loewe.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 1:41 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) Who loves Paint Your Wagon (1969) and its soundtrack? Me! As a very young teenager in 1969/70 I had no intention of seeing a musical ... even though I had enjoyed others ... I wanted to see action films ... ... and then during a family holiday, one wet August day/evening in Bournemouth, we went to see it on a re-run ... probably 1971 ... and I loved it. I laughed so much and found I liked the tunes. I bought my father a cheap cover version of the score (The Mike Sammes Singers with Brain Fahey conducting) and only years later bought the OST. I haven't watched the DVD for some years and it's been over a year since I last played the score but, yes, a definite favourite of mine, despite Clint's limited vocal range. I sometimes think that a second female lead would have been good so as to expand the songs but then, perhaps, it works so well for me because of its existing setup. Mitch    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 6:42 AM     By:   Tom G   (Member) Not a great movie but one I am fond of. 2 out of 4 stars. Call it a guilty pleasure. I happened to be in a stage production of Paint Your Wagon in high school (played the Lee Marvin part) at the time of the films general release in 1971. Several songs and the intermission had been removed. I believe the current DVD contains the entire roadshow version. Several scenes in the second half are hilarious! The last dialogue between Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood contains a great moment of subtle humor. (Remember, Eastwood movie characters to this point did not have a name.) Anyway, great songs, great Nelson Riddle arrangements and just an average movie with some great moments. Zooba, you might like it.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 6:57 AM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) I adore the movie and the music! Back in the day, I was taken to see the film by my parents at my beloved Odeon in St Albans and I was absolutely blown away by it. Apart from anything else, I remember loving the "There's a coach coming in" sequence, which I later discovered was shot by William Fraker, who also went on to shoot Spielberg's 1941. My dad had the gatefold soundtrack LP (I still have it somewhere) and played it non-stop, so when CD players came out it gave me great pleasure to rest him to a new version of the soundtrack (and I still have the CD). I know Paint Your Wagon was a huge financial disaster but I think it is a marvellous film with buckets of heart and some absolutely wonderful songs.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 7:12 AM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) Well SOMEONE has to link it...    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 8:15 AM     By:   PollyAnna   (Member) Gotta love "Wanderin' Star" and " I talk To The Trees" . Kinda like the album but these two stand out for me    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 8:32 AM     By:   Zooba   (Member) Well SOMEONE has to link it... Love it. PLANET OF THE APES THE MUSICAL anyone?    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 9:22 AM     By:   cinemel1   (Member) Great choral work in Paint Your Wagon. However, They Call the Wind Maria is the best version of the song as sung by Harve Presnell.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 11:30 AM     By:   robertmickeyfan@aol.com   (Member) Add me to the list of those who love this movie. It has aged well. I watched it again not too long ago and it is a very entertaining movie with a gorgeous soundtrack. Josh Logan knew what he was doing This film and CAMELOT , were NOT the disasters they were accused of being. That horrible book by Kennedy about the Roadshow movies continues that lie.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 11:30 AM     By:   robertmickeyfan@aol.com   (Member) Add me to the list of those who love this movie. It has aged well. I watched it again not too long ago and it is a very entertaining movie with a gorgeous soundtrack. Josh Logan knew what he was doing This film and CAMELOT , were NOT the disasters they were accused of being. That horrible book by Kennedy about the Roadshow movies continues that lie.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 11:36 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) hey zoobs--check out 1st respondent! http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=39338&forumID=1&archive=0    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 11:44 AM     By:   joec   (Member) Great choral work in Paint Your Wagon. However, They Call the Wind Maria is the best version of the song as sung by Harve Presnell. The choral work is magnificent!    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 11:44 AM     By:   joec   (Member) Great choral work in Paint Your Wagon. However, They Call the Wind Maria is the best version of the song as sung by Harve Presnell. The choral work is magnificent!    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 1:01 PM     By:   CH-CD   (Member) Always loved it. First saw it (with Mum & Dad. on my 22nd birthday) in its original 70mm London run at The Astoria, Charing Cross Road. It looked and sounded absolutely beautiful. Old Harve really rattled the chandeliers with this one... https://youtu.be/02Mh3DNaXDw It was an enormous hit here and ran for many weeks when it went to the Major Cities. Lee Marvin’s “Wandrin’ Star” topped the charts for three weeks and kept The Beatles “Let It Be” off top spot. Oh that we could see it once again like that.... but, sadly, The Astoria is no more    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 1:13 PM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) I, too, watched it on DvD recently. The story fell somewhat flat and the progression felt a little awkward - more like light-weight filler between the musical numbers. Worth watching for Seberg alone, though, but it does have it's funny moments. Before seeing the movie on TV the first time, I had heard the LP and became very familiar with the song continuity. It was one of those in-the-family-home acquisitions. It remains unequalled in the ambiance that emanates from it. It works better for me as an audio experience.    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 2:31 PM     By:   ukgroove   (Member) Always loved it. First saw it (with Mum & Dad. on my 22nd birthday) in its original 70mm London run at The Astoria, Charing Cross Road. It looked and sounded absolutely beautiful. Old Harve really rattled the chandeliers with this one... https://youtu.be/02Mh3DNaXDw It was an enormous hit here and ran for many weeks when it went to the Major Cities. Lee Marvin’s “Wandrin’ Star” topped the charts for three weeks and kept The Beatles “Let It Be” off top spot. Oh that we could see it once again like that.... but, sadly, The Astoria is no more I have the original cuttings from Paint Your Wagon here in England, plus the brown-coloured LP soundtrack(UK version of sleeve?) alternatively displayed by our first correspondent on this thread, and also the glossy brochure which could be purchased at major city presentations. The Astoria did indeed have an extended run, from its premiere on 14 January 1970 until 21 July 1971. Courtesy of CinemaTreasures, here's the display at one of our major cities in the UK, the then Essoldo in city centre Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3191/photos/129250    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 2:41 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) Got a Free LP of the Movie Soundtrack tonight in the FREE BOX at my local ON THE CORNER RECORDS. Never saw the movie but it always seemed like a big deal when I was a kid. Knew Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood were in it. I've got to see it. Always thought it was in CINERAMA, but I guess I was wrong. Seemed big and perfect for that. Love the soundtrack. I love the music of Lerner and Loewe, especially their BRIGADOON, which I was lucky to have been in a stage production of in North Hollywood in my early L.A. days. Back to PAINT YOUR WAGON. The LP included a cool Mini Poster, which I put on the front of the LP and also included a Free 12 page Full Color Souvenir Booklet. And oh how nice for free! Thanks ON THE CORNER! Please share your thoughts on PAINT YOUR WAGON Film and Score. Thanks. Great Behind the Scenes featurette on the Making of the Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTymtAbaG08&index=8&list=PLqFYdcd0JMvYPvLk3dUZ442EAaaPxc1iI I'm surprised that the souvenir booklet wasn't replicated as the C.D. booklet when M.C.A. reissued it on C.D..    Posted:   Sep 25, 2016 - 2:42 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) Always loved it. First saw it (with Mum & Dad. on my 22nd birthday) in its original 70mm London run at The Astoria, Charing Cross Road. It looked and sounded absolutely beautiful. Old Harve really rattled the chandeliers with this one... https://youtu.be/02Mh3DNaXDw It was an enormous hit here and ran for many weeks when it went to the Major Cities. Lee Marvin’s “Wandrin’ Star” topped the charts for three weeks and kept The Beatles “Let It Be” off top spot. Oh that we could see it once again like that.... but, sadly, The Astoria is no more I have the original cuttings from Paint Your Wagon here in England, plus the brown-coloured LP soundtrack(UK version of sleeve?) alternatively displayed by our first correspondent on this thread, and also the glossy brochure which could be purchased at major city presentations. The Astoria did indeed have an extended run, from its premiere on 14 January 1970 until 21 July 1971. Courtesy of CinemaTreasures, here's the display at one of our major cities in the UK, the then ABC in city centre Newcastle-upon-Tyne http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3191/photos/129250 Marvin even performed it on "The Ed Sullivan Show".     General Discussion: Who loves PAINT YOUR WAGON and it's Soundtrack?    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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