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You can hear Elmer Bernstein spoofing some of Newman's score in Airplane! Isn't The High and the Mighty from 1954 considered the forerunner to Airport?
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You can hear Elmer Bernstein spoofing some of Newman's score in Airplane! Isn't The High and the Mighty from 1954 considered the forerunner to Airport? Leave it to you to bring up a John Wayne movie! John Wayne was in Airplane!???
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Posted: |
Jan 15, 2017 - 3:30 PM
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PFK
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I'd venture to say! And oh wasn't Alfred Newman's energetic score an inspiration for those to come? Oh yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMunnxIsH4 Since Stanley Wilson replaced Joseph Gershenson as Universal's General Music Director (while still holding a position as their television music department's "Creative" head" since Newman was very ill, do you think it's a possibility Wilson conducted parts of the score? Interestingly, that Decca logo on the back was seen only once on the brown label on the "Jesus Christ Superstar" album , and was briefly seen in '73 on an album by an unknown artist, before the Decca, Coral, Uni and Universal labels were retired by M.C.A. at the end of '73. Buy the way, considering Newman's health, Hugo Friedhofer scored some parts of the film. Back in 1973 I meet with Page Cook two times. Cook says he meet Newman in Los Angeles, and corresponded with Ken Darby for years. Cook told me that Darby conducted part of the film score and all of the re-recorded LP. Cook was known to stretch the truth a bit at times. Some on this board have said Stanley Wilson conducted the LP. We may never know for sure unless a CD of the actual film soundtrack is released and thus research at Universal is performed.
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