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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: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS(Bernstein'58) Recordman #71     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Oct 14, 2007 - 10:54 AM     By:   Recordman   (Member) “Desire Under the Elms” was a 1958 film adapted from an Eugene O’Neill play. It features Burl Ives as a hardworking New England farmer who prizes his land. He has three sons who hate him, including Tony Perkins who expects the land to be his. The widower Ives remarries a much younger woman, the beautiful Sophia Loren who also expects the land and engages in adultery with Perkins to gain his support. Look elsewhere for a happy ending. The film score was composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) and released on a mono Dot LP (DLP-3095 the same year (See photo below). For some reason this has never seen legitimate CD release (why is that?), though apparently there is a possible boot floating around. It has always been a sought-after LP collectible, perhaps fueled as well by the beautiful cover. Mike    Posted:   Oct 14, 2007 - 6:44 PM     By:   shureman   (Member) There's also a Japanese LP re-issue from the 1970's.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2007 - 7:46 PM     By:   george2000   (Member) I also have the Japanese reissue,which is superior in sound quality.It is a Paramount release,so a cd issue, would be most unlikely.    Posted:   Oct 14, 2007 - 8:20 PM     By:   Joe Caps   (Member) The FILM was a Paramount release, but soundtrack album rights, along with alll titles released on the Dot label reside with Universal Music.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2007 - 2:38 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) After living since junior high school with the LP cover, imagine my surprise as an adult when I found out the movie was in black and white. I wish to hell somebody WOULD put the LP on CD. It's probably one of the four or five best things Elmer's done, or at least one of the ones that moves me the most. Maybe it's my New England upbringing that makes me so susceptible to the pastorales therein. Yes, there's a b***, but it's of the actual score in its entirety, not the LP version. Listening to it -- under duress, of course -- I can appreciate what a good job Elmer did of abridging his opus for the LP.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2007 - 2:51 PM     By:   Steve Johnson   (Member) I had the Japanese pressing but sold it sometime in the mid eighties. It would be really great to see this surface on cd. It's a fine score.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2007 - 2:53 PM     By:   Ag^Janus   (Member) After living since junior high school with the LP cover, imagine my surprise as an adult when I found out the movie was in black and white. I wish to hell somebody WOULD put the LP on CD. It's probably one of the four or five best things Elmer's done, or at least one of the ones that moves me the most. Maybe it's my New England upbringing that makes me so susceptible to the pastorales therein. Yes, there's a b***, but it's of the actual score in its entirety, not the LP version. Listening to it -- under duress, of course -- I can appreciate what a good job Elmer did of abridging his opus for the LP. I take it you want this music available on CD. Hell was not somewhere a person would want to be in my experience Is this one of the scores that moved you to get your water works going Cmdr Preston? ( Up top not down below. ) Is it similar in style to scores Summer and Smoke and God's Little Acre? I've only heard the former due to difficult restrictions.    Posted:   Oct 15, 2007 - 6:15 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Definitely in their league, (SUMMER AND SMOKE and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE). Here's hoping you get to enjoy lots of EB from this period and in that mood!    Posted:   Oct 16, 2007 - 11:54 AM     By:   Ag^Janus   (Member) Definitely in their league, (SUMMER AND SMOKE and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE). Here's hoping you get to enjoy lots of EB from this period and in that mood! Count me in! I thought I'd have a look at God's Little Acre, however seemed too much for me to bare at the time, maybe I can go back to it in the future.    Posted:   Oct 16, 2007 - 12:26 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) "too much for me to bare..." Is that a Freudian slip, or were you being clever? "Left on the seat next to me were some crumpled napkins, a paper plate, a forgotten Erskine Calwell novell -- that is, if anyone can really forget an Eskine Caldwell novel..." -- SHELLEY BERMAN    Posted:   Oct 17, 2007 - 10:35 PM     By:   RonBurbella   (Member) For what it's worth, the LaserDisc release of DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (Paramount LV 5712) had Elmer Bernstein's complete score isolated on the analog 2 (right) channel.    Posted:   Oct 18, 2007 - 1:43 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) It's worth a lot. Are you listening, Dana?    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 7:15 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) Yay, Intrada! The great Elmer revival continues!!! http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.5906/.f?category=-101    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 7:23 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) . . . and it's Paramount, right? What can this mean?! What can this mean?!    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 7:39 PM     By:   rmos   (Member) . . . and it's Paramount, right? What can this mean?! What can this mean?! Nothing. It's licensed from Universal Music. Paramount isn't involved.    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 7:41 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) Nothing. It's licensed from Universal Music. Paramount isn't involved. Aw. Party pooper.    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 9:58 PM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) It's worth a lot. Are you listening, Dana? But of course -- it just took me a year to answer! A huge tip of the fedora to Intrada for another fine Elmer Bernstein release! (Are you listening, Preston?)    Posted:   Oct 22, 2008 - 11:02 PM     By:   Steve Johnson   (Member) I had the Japanese pressing but sold it sometime in the mid eighties. It would be really great to see this surface on cd. It's a fine score. Gee, I must be psychic, and almost a year to the damned day! Anyway, order fulfilled at Intrada. Next...    Posted:   Oct 23, 2008 - 1:24 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Dana, hi! You bet I'm listening. This has been a lifelong favorite LP, and I couldn't be happier that it's now available as a CD -- (this even though I happen also to have a copy of the complete score...) Am happily anticipating its arrival in my mailbox.    Posted:   Oct 23, 2008 - 5:56 PM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) Dana, hi! You bet I'm listening. This has been a lifelong favorite LP, and I couldn't be happier that it's now available as a CD -- (this even though I happen also to have a copy of the complete score...) Am happily anticipating its arrival in my mailbox. Me too! Let's talk about it next October.     General Discussion: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS(Bernstein'58) Recordman #71    < 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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