I edited a few of the better cues featuring the choir into this video...(the music was sourced from a CDR of the M&E track) Near the end I remixed the narration music into pseudo-stereo for a smoother sound. Enjoy-
Great video. This is one of a handful of films that scared the hell out of me as a kid and still works on a certain level today. The score is a perfect counterpoint to the visuals, to the point where I've honestly never watched the film and thought of the score as a separate entity from the film soundtrack. This is the first time I've heard it out of context, and I quite enjoy it!
Great sound, and what a HAUNTING chorus! Looking at Leif Erickson, I wonder what would've happened if the Martians had invaded "The High Chapparal" and possessed the Cannons and Montoyas! By the way, Charles, what kind of software did you use for this video? This score is undoubtedly Mort Glickman(NOT Kraushaar's)'s masterpiece.
Great sound, and what a HAUNTING chorus! Looking at Leif Erickson, I wonder what would've happened if the Martians had invaded "The High Chapparal" and possessed the Cannons and Montoyas! By the way, Charles, what kind of software did you use for this video? This score is undoubtedly Mort Glickman(NOT Kraushaar's)'s masterpiece.
I assembled the audio in Cool Edit Pro...did the video with Windows Movie Maker.
Thanks guys....listening to the choir stuff...it's some very bizarre "out-there" writing and I think it would be difficult to recreate or re-record and still capture that tonal quality.
I edited a few of the better cues featuring the choir into this video...(the music was sourced from a CDR of the M&E track) Near the end I remixed the narration music into pseudo-stereo for a smoother sound. Enjoy-
thanks a lot Charles!!! it's great to hear the prologue almost complete and without dialog. Outstanding score with truly exceptional choir work. are the tapes lost or why isn't there any release?
Not sure about the tapes but the M&E tracks exist (among collectors) and could be turned into a CD with some editing...the prologue music in the video "is" complete right up to the alarm clock ringing. Maybe MMM has some info about lost tapes?
Nice one - great to hear this in all it's glory - an often-overlooked film and score - would be great for one of the labels to pick this up and run with it for a decent score release, but equally it is desperate for a proper DVD release too - what's available is not good enough for a film of this importance (though the R1 release has advantages over the poor R2 release).
I may have mentioned this before, but I own a reel of 16mm porno trailers from the early 1970s - and one of them(from 1971) is partially scored with the music from INVADERS FROM MARS. So at least the score was available as stock sometime back then - but who owned it is the key question.
If the company that controlled the rights is still in business, they probably don't list the tracks as being from INVADERS - so it's doubly impossible to research.
Not sure about the tapes but the M&E tracks exist (among collectors) and could be turned into a CD with some editing...the prologue music in the video "is" complete right up to the alarm clock ringing. Maybe MMM has some info about lost tapes?
Aren't the tapes (or acetates) from Glickman's score for "Invaders From Mars" part of the Brigham Young Music Archives (the score was recorded at Republic Studios, who music library is part of the archive)?
Oh man the flashback cue and then the closing are lifelong film music memories among a select few. I'm talking from when I was 4 years old forward. My goodness fifty+ years later and I still get goosebumps.
I started posting about the score back in at least 2001 but am a latecomer to the Mort Glickman business. A few ensuing threads (good stuff!) below touched upon it. Has any definitive confirmation emerged as to who deserves what credit for the damn thing?
PS from a reply by "filmusicnow" on a Monty Norman thread:
...the score for "Invaders From Mars", which was credited to that hack Raoul Kraushaar, but according to William Rosar in an article in "Cinemascore", it was actually composed by Mort Glickman (according to his son Phil). Kraushaar was never much of a composer, and he notoriously took credit for scores ghostwritten by others. Personally, in my mind, it was composed by Glickman (I wonder if either of Kraushaar's or Glickman's estates get royalities or else there's a dispute).
If someone has ghostwritten a score, no one is "notoriously" taking credit for it - he's taking the credit he negotiated for - the ghostwriter knows the deal going in, hence the term ghostwriter - that is IF Mr. Glickman did indeed write the score.
Also, for whatever it's worth, Mr. Glickman died two months before this film's release. IF he wrote the score, he must have written it just before passing away.
