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With a little bit of luck if one day this wonderful score for Daves' masterpiece gets into CD the song will be missing... due to contractual reasons !
I think most of us would prefer to have the songs, and let those who don't like them just program around them in their playlist. Would you really wish for something not to be released (though others might like it) just because it's not of interest to you? Wow!
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With a little bit of luck if one day this wonderful score for Daves' masterpiece gets into CD the song will be missing... due to contractual reasons !
I think most of us would prefer to have the songs, and let those who don't like them just program around them in their playlist. Would you really wish for something not to be released (though others might like it) just because it's not of interest to you? Wow!
I'm sorry : I didn't mean to be selfish... This was a very stupid statement I deeply regret...
It's only because the first time I saw this movie I really got angry by the choice of a song that, according to me, doesnt' fit the spirit of the movie. Same thing happens with YELLOW SKY and the ludicrous use of the wonderful Brigham Young march...
But you're absolutly right : I should have thought twice before posting such stupid statement...
Sorry.
I didn't really think you meant that, actually. I know what you mean about bad songs, though. This one came from the era when every movie (especially every western) had to have a title song, and some were definitely better than others!
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Angelillo, your apology puts you a quantum leap ahead of many here. I understand your feelings about the song as it seems tacked on to Steiner's effort, which only quotes the song in a few spots in passing .
Actually, back in 1959, Warners probably wanted to attract attention to this fairly dark western by having a theme song for THE HANGING TREE sung by the then popular Marty Robbins, who had had a very popular hit the year before with the song "El Paso."
Warners did this further back by using the popular recording version of Dimitri Tiomkin's song for STRANGE LADY IN TOWN as the actual main title of that film, but much more inelegantly. The main title starts with Tiomkin and the full Warners orchestra playing, then goes into the Frankie Laine single version in a brutal edit, coming back out to the full orchestra in similar sledgehammer style.
Nevertheless, I, too, would love to see a release of the Steiner score. (I could kick myself for forgetting to record this off TCM!)
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Makes ya wonder if Tiomkin recorded a full main title, only to have the song brutally inserted into the middle of it.
Wonder if Tiomkin's main title still exists somewhere?
Similar to what was done to Aaron Copland's main title to THE HEIRESS.
Or even the main title to THE GOOD EARTH. There's a cue supposedly for the main title on that MGM compilation, but it's not the same main title as in the film, itself, but a darker-toned piece.
Interesting.
As for Steiner releases, it looks like that possibility seems rather dry of late. I, too, heard snippets of THE HANGING TREE, and enjoyed the music.
What I'd love of Steiner's, however, is a full legit release of his magnificent score for HELEN OF TROY.
Oh well....
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