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Loony Tunes back in Action
Terms of Endearment
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold): Favourite score. Enough said.
Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith): To participate in the standing ovation Goldsmith received after recording 'The Final Game'.
Torn Curtain (Bernard Herrmann): Oh to be a fly on the wall when Hitchcock first heard the 'Main Title'.
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PLANET OF THE APES, Jerry Goldsmith
Imagine being there, on the soundstage at Fox when Goldsmith brought the baton down on “The Hunt” and those images were forever complimented by his music. To be there and feel that energy and creativity first hand...
STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE, Jerry Goldsmith
I wonder how much of “The Enterprise” was just slugs that said “Special Effect...” Still when that cue was over, the thundering organ, brass and percussion reverberating around the studio, what the expression on Jerry's face was...Relief?...Nailed it?...Maybe one more time?...Yeah, that's the one?...
FIRST BLOOD, Jerry Goldsmith
Like “The Hunt” from Planet of the Apes, what it must've been like to hear/see “The Razor” first performed to picture. When John Rambo bursts through the doors, out onto the street, rips the motorcycle from it's rider and rears away...Whew, Goldsmith blows the doors out! When I saw it opening weekend, it was one of the few times I've actually seen members of the audience come out of their seats and cheer at the action on screen, which I believe is directly due to Goldsmith's score.
Plenty of others, but my top three!
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Sinful Davy. (Just 'cos I want to have heard it.)
Walkabout. (So I could put some tracking device on the master tapes of possibly my favourite score of all.)
Moonraker. (Ditto.)
Cheers
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Rome 1966, The Good The Bad and The Ugly - so could watch history being made before my eyes, and taken notes and photographs.
And so I could've sat with my tape recorder running...The Early Bird (Ron Goodwin) and Operation Daybreak (hentschel).
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ROCKETSHIP X-M. Ferde Grofe was present while Al Glasser was on the podium. It would have been a real pleasure to observe Ferde while one of his very few film scores was played and recorded. It would have been fun to meet Samuel Hoffman, the theremin player for so many pictures, also.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. One of the most unusual scores and orchestrations ever. My understanding is that Al Newman and others of the Fox music staff were there to observe Bernard Hermann's work with the studio musicians.
Ah, to go back in time..............
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"The Robe" -- especially the recording set-up for stereo.
"The Egyptian" -- Newman AND Herrmann...no-brainer.
"South Pacific" -- I've never seen true magic up close and personal.
"How the West Was Won" -- especially on the day Newman had the recording microphones re-hung.
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