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That would be the LP that was issued by MCA in 1986. During the dying days of the LP, MCA obtained the rights for a short time, to the UA & MGM record catalogue and issued a large number of LP re-issues. They sometimes gave them new artwork but they were budget issues and the sound quality was usually not good. None of the various LPs of Solomon & Sheba had any track titles to my knowledge but this is the list from the subsequent DRG and Legend label CD releases:
Main Titles (02:00)
Death Of David (02:39)
Solomon In The Temple (01:52)
Orgiastic Dance (04:50)
Death Of Abishag (01:42)
Battle (02:38)
Solomon Lifts Sheba (01:22)
Purification and Finale (01:53)
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The LP has different titles and more cues:
1.- 'Rha-Gon' (???!!!)
2.- 'Egyptian Invasion'
3.- 'Battle in Israel'
4.- 'Pagan Festival'
5.- Main Theme (Title)
6.- 'King David's Death'
7.- 'Miracle'
8.- 'Returning to Arms'
9.-'The Misty Lake'
10.- Hymn to Jehovah
11.-'Sheban Caravans'
12.-'Abishag'
13.-'Solomon's Meditation'
14.-'Peace in Israel'
15.-'Declaration of Love'.
I have to say, it's a grim movie though!
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Is anyone thinking of putting their S&S LP on cd? I have the shorter version on DRG cd, and would like to get the more complete version. What is the runtime of the LP?
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Anyone want to volunteer the LP runtime? The DRG cd is about 19 minutes.
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I would say about 40~45 minutes..
Thanks.
Anyone know if the Soundtrack Library cd was sourced from the LP? Coincidentally has 15 tracks but runs 59 minutes. I suppose some Legend cd tracks could have been added, and some tracks merged together so it appears there's still only 15.
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But who can think of track lists when Gina goes into her dance???????
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The solomon lop (both original and MCA reissue) was true stero, unlike big country, etc.
the selection generally are not the same as the drg etc reissues which features unreleased mono music directly from the composers tape.
'Solomon Lop' ... that has to be Yul Brynner's haircut, or a nifty move in archaic swordplay.
Sounds like proper stereo to me, but not the best of recordings certainly.
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YOU thought it was a grim movie? Imagine how Tyrone Power felt about it!
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May 8, 2007 - 4:58 PM
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manderley
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.....YOU thought it was a grim movie? Imagine how Tyrone Power felt about it!.....
I've always wondered, Preston, if Power could have pulled SOLOMON AND SHEBA together, and given it some sort of class. He was a good actor, very underrated, and must have seen something viable in the material after his nice turn in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
I'm also always surprised to see Vidor's name attached to this, though after DUEL IN THE SUN, BEYOND THE FOREST, and RUBY GENTRY, I suppose anything was fair game for him (.....even though I harbor affections for those films, too).
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.....YOU thought it was a grim movie? Imagine how Tyrone Power felt about it!.....
I've always wondered, Preston, if Power could have pulled SOLOMON AND SHEBA together, and given it some sort of class. He was a good actor, very underrated, and must have seen something viable in the material after his nice turn in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
Power was talented, but so was Brynner. The basic screenplay was flawed from the start. The battle-scene with the lemming-horses was a lunatic conception even apart from the well-documented cruelty. The whole thing was a potboiler remake of a silent era idea, and just couldn't work in the 60s. There's a great story about Solomon somewhere, but the themes that jump out should be about decay, jadedness and a pessimistic fall from grace. That was Solomon's reality. The film tries to give him a nice Davidic redemption ... far better to have MADE a decent epic on the David story.
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I like Solomon and Sheba a lot...not a great film but one of my guilty pleasures. Great cinematography, exotic + memorable music, Gina in all her great costumes(or lack thereof),etc.
I dont think that Tyrone Power would have been better than Yul, just different. In stills , he also looks a bit too old to be playing the younger son of King David. Several clips from the Power version were shown on the series THATS HOLLYWOOD around 1980. It is shame the Power footage has not been assembled and released such as the abandeoned 30s production of I,Claudius. Today with computer technology, the Power S&S probably could be finished .
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