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Kenneth Alford/Malcolm Arnold
Maurice Jarre
Dimitri Tiomkin
Ron Goodwin
Paul Anka
Ron Goodwin
Ron Goodwin
Eric Coates
Elmer Bernstein
Miklos Rozsa
Maurice Jarre
John Addison
Marches ?
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Kenneth Alford/Malcolm Arnold
Maurice Jarre
Dimitri Tiomkin
Ron Goodwin
Paul Anka
Ron Goodwin
Ron Goodwin
Eric Coates
Elmer Bernstein
Miklos Rozsa
Maurice Jarre
John Addison
The only thing I can think about these composers is that they wrote some of the greatest War Scores ever.
633 Squadron, Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, Lawrence, Longest Day, Bridge Too Far, Great Escape, Dam Busters, Guns of Navarone, etc. etc. etc.
It was just a guess.
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These are the composers, in play order, of the 12 tracks on Geoff Love's BIG WAR MOVIE THEMES LP.
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These are the composers, in play order, of the 12 tracks on Geoff Love's BIG WAR MOVIE THEMES LP.
That was one of my favorite LP's.
Cd release anybody?
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These are the composers, in play order, of the 12 tracks on Geoff Love's BIG WAR MOVIE THEMES LP.
That was one of my favorite LP's.
Cd release anybody?
It was a very good album, and it WAS released on CD several years back, with some additional titles like COLDITZ (the tv series) and I think WISH ME LUCK (another tv series) and some others. Can't lay my hands on it right now.
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I liked a lot of the tracks but really enjoyed MJ's Is Paris Burning?, so much so that when I watched (part of) the film some years later on TV I was disappointed not to hear that theme (in that arrangement, at least).
Same here. I never heard another cover arrangement of The Paris Waltz that I liked as much as this one.
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These are the composers, in play order, of the 12 tracks on Geoff Love's BIG WAR MOVIE THEMES LP.
That was one of my favorite LP's.
Cd release anybody?
It was a very good album, and it WAS released on CD several years back, with some additional titles like COLDITZ (the tv series) and I think WISH ME LUCK (another tv series) and some others. Can't lay my hands on it right now.
Damn that's one I missed!
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These are the composers, in play order, of the 12 tracks on Geoff Love's BIG WAR MOVIE THEMES LP.
I got it, straight off!
There was indeed a CD release: I have a feeling the Miklos Rozsa got left off the CD? I must check.
The 'Battle of Britain', 'Dambusters', 'Great Escape', 'Reach for the Sky' and 'Is Paris Burning?' and '633 Squadron' were all very good renderings. 'Green Berets' shows what Rozsa's title might have been had he been left to his own devices. 'Kwai' is cheapened a bit, and 'Lawrence' sounds like a Turkish Delight advert. 'Navarone' is awful, and somebody altered the percussion opener to 'Where Eagles Dare'. 'Longest Day' is dull. Great sonics though.
I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
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I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
The Star Wars disco album is actually a Close Encounters disco album (though the main Star Wars theme appears on the CE3K disco LP as well, I think as a cover of the Meco version). Most of the tracks from these two albums did end up on a CD release, now out of print.
I did a spot of googling and found there are a slew of Love albums that I never even heard of before: no less than three LPs of Western movie themes, one of Western TV themes, a Morricone LP, and a fascinating album of horror themes that doesn't entirely duplicate the Big Terror Movie Themes LP. I'd love for EMI to put out a box set of these covers - his version of the SHAFT theme is splendid.
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Mar 31, 2009 - 3:52 PM
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Tall Guy
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I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster* Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
* in fact, Terror rather than Disaster
And a Suspense one, with Rififi, Frenzy and others.
I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
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Great thread TallGuy. At the risk of sounding like Thor, we have discussed these previously -but never let that get in the way of a good discussion!!
I had the lot, sparked by enjoying Where Eagles Dare at the cinema and 633 squadron on TV, these LPs were what made me realise how much I enjoyed war film themes. Youre right about the Terror and Suspense films and the western themes - you will also note there were two western themes - the second one included, if memory serves, Hang em High and a passable version of The Wild Bunch.
I may have said this before but one of the reasons that Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain and 633 squadron were such decent "versions" on the war film themes LP was that Goodwin and Geoff Love were friends -they'd worked together in previous orchestras, and Ron gave Geoff access to his sheet music and orchestrations.
Another reason that the previously unreleased Executioner appeared on the suspense LP was that because Geoff asked Ron if he could do that too.
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Manuel and the Music of the Mountains??
MusicMad, now youre talking!
neighbours of mine had about four of those LPs and I borrowed them and did a favourites compilation.
I could listen to Geoff's version of 'Brazil' and 'Somewhere My Love' all day long! Loved that stuff.
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