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I just stumbled across this album while checking out SoundtrackCollector.com. Is it any good? Should I go after a copy on eBay? I already have the Fred Steiner recording, the Stromberg/Morgan recording and the original tracks as well as the Gerhardt suite. Should I add one more?
Neil
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Thanks everyone!
Neil
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The LeRoy Holmes King Kong was also re-orchestrated especially for the recording (by someone who was probably not even working from Steiner's original skecthes). Instrumentation is decidely different in places.
Holmes also did a Citizen Kane album, which Bernard Herrmann publicly denounced as "a fake".
By the way, just who was LeRoy Holmes, and how did this series of recordings come about? Where were they recorded?
Paul
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As somebody who doesn't require slavish nuance-for-nuance faithfulness in their rerecordings, and has often argued that music can only live if it can be interpreted by conductors and musicians who aren't simply trying to recreate a single performance from many years ago, I have a strong opinion on this album. And that opinion is that it is extremely terrible. It sounds nothing like Steiner's score, and it's awful in its own right. There are so many other games in town -- the Morgan/Stromberg, the Fred Steiner, the original -- I can't see why anybody would pay even a quarter for this. In fact, I probably have other scores in my collection that, by sheer chance, sound more like Steiner's "King Kong" than this album does.
LOL! Bravo, bravo!
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As a matter of interest did any of you ever buy LeRoy Holmes version of FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE,I think that it was released in 1969.Now that was bad,can you imagine MORRICONE's delicate WATCH music thumped out at great speed on a HARPSICORD,I still shudder now.
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Dec 16, 2005 - 7:03 AM
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Ray Worley
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I was around 18 or so when the Leroy Holmes "For A Few Dollars More" came out. It was, in fact, the only version of the score you could get here in the US for a really long time. Back then, it was difficult to get imports and I was ignorant of the connections to find them. However, I was so OFFENDED at the sheer abysmal awfulness of this recording that I got off my duff and started researching sources for foreign recordings. I was was lucky enough to have 2-3 friends who were also interested in soundtracks. Leroy Holmes became sort of a catch-phrase or shorthand for musical banality and incompetance amongst us. Anyway, one of my friends made a trip to New York, located Footlight Records based on my research and came back with copies of the RCA Italia "Fistful/For a Few Dollars" album. So I can at least credit Leroy with inspiring me to get my first imported album and discover the wonderful world of Italian Imports. Many fabulous Morricones followed.
On another note, many may remember that the gawdawful Leroy Holmes arrangement of "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" was the one that actually made the pop charts. I occasionally still get into a conversation with "mundanes" and when if I mention "GBU" they will respond "Oh yeah, I remember that...Leroy Holmes wrote that right?"
ARRRRGH!
Now that I digressed enough....I was lucky enough not to buy the 4 LPs in question but I did hear "Kong", "Kane", and "Prisoner of Zenda"...All dreadful.
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I just stumbled across this album while checking out SoundtrackCollector.com. Is it any good? Should I go after a copy on eBay? I already have the Fred Steiner recording, the Stromberg/Morgan recording and the original tracks as well as the Gerhardt suite. Should I add one more?
Neil
These albums that were released by United Artist records circa 1973-74 were abysmal. Nice covers using the original posters art of the movies, but there wasn't a good release in the lot of them. Avoid them at all costs.
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