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If it really sounds anything like Newman's Captain from Castile I am THERE! (Plus, I like Sol Kaplan anyway)
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Well, of course, NOTHING sounds like CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE, one of the greatest scores ever. But there is a certain amount of similarity. Both have that Spanish/South American exotic flavor and feature exciting rhythmic cues.
Yeah....SIGN ME UP!
Yavar
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Jul 31, 2013 - 6:37 AM
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About 1966 I tapped off tv some of the Way of the Gaucho music with my trusty Sony reel to reel tape recorder. Maybe nearly 50 years later I will get the cd?
Bruce, are you taking this all in? 
Wow! I did the exact same thing around the same time. I've transferred that WAY OF A GAUCHO music from reel-to-reel, to cassette, to CDR, and now have it on my iPod (along with a few other vintage unreleased tracks like Bernstein's RIVERBOAT that I taped from TV) . Crummy sound, but that magnificent main title shines through.
With all the great Golden Age releases in the last few years, I've retired a lot of those old tape recordings as the CDs came out. KINGS OF THE SUN, KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES, TOBRUK, WAR WAGON and many others I had on straight off TV recordings and now I'm enjoying the CDs.
I hope to add WAY OF A GAUCHO to that list someday.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 1:58 PM
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PFK
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About 1966 I tapped off tv some of the Way of the Gaucho music with my trusty Sony reel to reel tape recorder. Maybe nearly 50 years later I will get the cd?
Bruce, are you taking this all in?
Wow! I did the exact same thing around the same time. I've transferred that WAY OF A GAUCHO music from reel-to-reel, to cassette, to CDR, and now have it on my iPod (along with a few other vintage unreleased tracks like Bernstein's RIVERBOAT that I taped from TV) . Crummy sound, but that magnificent main title shines through.
With all the great Golden Age releases in the last few years, I've retired a lot of those old tape recordings as the CDs came out. KINGS OF THE SUN, KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES, TOBRUK, WAR WAGON and many others I had on straight off TV recordings and now I'm enjoying the CDs.
I hope to add WAY OF A GAUCHO to that list someday.
Hi Ray, I agree with your posts and enjoy reading them. I'm turning 67, guess you are near that age too. Younger fans may not know that back in the 60s, 70s etc. the only way to get this golden age music was to hook up a reel to reel recorder to your tv. I did mostly main and end titles, but also did record some from the film too. Never thought 50 years later I would get great sounding cds of scores from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc.
In the 60s and 70s I hunted down all the LPs of scores, I somehow managed to get them all! Figured that was that. I bought a Sony reel recorder in 1966, went to Radio Shack and got a cord with alligator clips on one end and attached it to the speaker inside the tv, then the other end went right into the recorder. Pretty high tech huh? Those were the days.
I first noticed film scores around 1954. In 1956 my older brother bought the LP to Around the world in 80 Days, in 1957 he bought Rodgers' Slaughter on 10th Ave. In 1961 I tapped part of Salter's Frankenstein meets the Wolfman off tv. In 1964 I started to buy ST LPs. In 1956 The Ten Commandments' music impressed me a lot. But it was The Magnificent Seven in 1960 that made me a big film music fan. You, and others, probably have the same type story too. Well, next year will be 50 years since my first ST LP! ...... Peter
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Jul 31, 2013 - 5:21 PM
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Ray Worley
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Hi Ray, I agree with your posts and enjoy reading them. I'm turning 67, guess you are near that age too. Younger fans may not know that back in the 60s, 70s etc. the only way to get this golden age music was to hook up a reel to reel recorder to your tv. I did mostly main and end titles, but also did record some from the film too. Never thought 50 years later I would get great sounding cds of scores from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc.
In the 60s and 70s I hunted down all the LPs of scores, I somehow managed to get them all! Figured that was that. I bought a Sony reel recorder in 1966, went to Radio Shack and got a cord with alligator clips on one end and attached it to the speaker inside the tv, then the other end went right into the recorder. Pretty high tech huh? Those were the days.
I first noticed film scores around 1954. In 1956 my older brother bought the LP to Around the world in 80 Days, in 1957 he bought Rodgers' Slaughter on 10th Ave. In 1961 I tapped part of Salter's Frankenstein meets the Wolfman off tv. In 1964 I started to buy ST LPs. In 1956 The Ten Commandments' music impressed me a lot. But it was The Magnificent Seven in 1960 that made me a big film music fan. You, and others, probably have the same type story too. Well, next year will be 50 years since my first ST LP! ...... Peter
Hi Peter,
You got a couple of years on me (I'm 63) but our experiences are pretty close. I bought as many LPs as I could afford on my limited pre-teen and teen budget but so many things were unreleased.
Also, without the internet, tracking down out-of-print LPs was extremely difficult (not to mention often beyond my price range). So, yeah, I hooked my tape recorder with alligator clips to the TV speakers and got lots of main & end titles. Sometimes I recorded as much of the score as I could...
I remember doing Goldsmith's THE PRIZE, Jarre's GAMBIT, and lots and lots of STAR TREK, among many others.
(Speaking of Sol Kaplan, one of my favorite STAR TREK scores was his "Doomsday Machine") As you can imagine it was almost beyond belief to get that wonderful box set of all that STAR TREK music I had painstakingly recorded from TV over 40 years ago.
Interestingly, my first awakening to soundtrack music was also THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I think I was around 11 when I saw it and I just HAD to get that theme on record. Of course, there was no such animal, except as an Al Caiola re-interpretation on an LP from UA called "Great Motion Picture Themes". I saw an ad for it for the Columbia Record Club, joined, got a copy and was hooked by all the other cool soundtrack music on the LP. My first complete soundtrack album was THE GUNS OF NAVARONE...followed quickly by LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE BIG COUNTRY, BEN-HUR, and EL CID. And boy was I happy when a couple of years later, the soundtrack for RETURN OF THE SEVEN was released on LP and I could finally get that MAGNIFICENT SEVEN music in its (mostly) original form. I never could get all the scores I wanted that were on LP, but happily, that has been remedied by the CD re-issue boom and now I'm just enjoying getting the stuff that never saw a release in any form. I'm also happy to be spoiled rotten by the concept that virtually any new movie I see whose score I find interesting is probably going to have a CD release.
I've been obsessing over WAY OF A GAUCHO recently because it is probably my one true holy grail left. There were many others but most of them have been satisfied recently. There is plenty I would like but none with quite the same degree of desire.
Ray
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Aug 1, 2013 - 8:57 PM
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Hi Ray, I agree with your posts and enjoy reading them. I'm turning 67, guess you are near that age too. Younger fans may not know that back in the 60s, 70s etc. the only way to get this golden age music was to hook up a reel to reel recorder to your tv. I did mostly main and end titles, but also did record some from the film too. Never thought 50 years later I would get great sounding cds of scores from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc.
In the 60s and 70s I hunted down all the LPs of scores, I somehow managed to get them all! Figured that was that. I bought a Sony reel recorder in 1966, went to Radio Shack and got a cord with alligator clips on one end and attached it to the speaker inside the tv, then the other end went right into the recorder. Pretty high tech huh? Those were the days.
I first noticed film scores around 1954. In 1956 my older brother bought the LP to Around the world in 80 Days, in 1957 he bought Rodgers' Slaughter on 10th Ave. In 1961 I tapped part of Salter's Frankenstein meets the Wolfman off tv. In 1964 I started to buy ST LPs. In 1956 The Ten Commandments' music impressed me a lot. But it was The Magnificent Seven in 1960 that made me a big film music fan. You, and others, probably have the same type story too. Well, next year will be 50 years since my first ST LP! ...... Peter
Hi Peter,
You got a couple of years on me (I'm 63) but our experiences are pretty close. I bought as many LPs as I could afford on my limited pre-teen and teen budget but so many things were unreleased.
Also, without the internet, tracking down out-of-print LPs was extremely difficult (not to mention often beyond my price range). So, yeah, I hooked my tape recorder with alligator clips to the TV speakers and got lots of main & end titles. Sometimes I recorded as much of the score as I could...
I remember doing Goldsmith's THE PRIZE, Jarre's GAMBIT, and lots and lots of STAR TREK, among many others.
(Speaking of Sol Kaplan, one of my favorite STAR TREK scores was his "Doomsday Machine") As you can imagine it was almost beyond belief to get that wonderful box set of all that STAR TREK music I had painstakingly recorded from TV over 40 years ago.
Interestingly, my first awakening to soundtrack music was also THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I think I was around 11 when I saw it and I just HAD to get that theme on record. Of course, there was no such animal, except as an Al Caiola re-interpretation on an LP from UA called "Great Motion Picture Themes". I saw an ad for it for the Columbia Record Club, joined, got a copy and was hooked by all the other cool soundtrack music on the LP. My first complete soundtrack album was THE GUNS OF NAVARONE...followed quickly by LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE BIG COUNTRY, BEN-HUR, and EL CID. And boy was I happy when a couple of years later, the soundtrack for RETURN OF THE SEVEN was released on LP and I could finally get that MAGNIFICENT SEVEN music in its (mostly) original form. I never could get all the scores I wanted that were on LP, but happily, that has been remedied by the CD re-issue boom and now I'm just enjoying getting the stuff that never saw a release in any form. I'm also happy to be spoiled rotten by the concept that virtually any new movie I see whose score I find interesting is probably going to have a CD release.
I've been obsessing over WAY OF A GAUCHO recently because it is probably my one true holy grail left. There were many others but most of them have been satisfied recently. There is plenty I would like but none with quite the same degree of desire.
Ray
Hey Ray, Thanks for the reply. I see it was The Magnificent Seven that got you into film scores too. I just pulled out my Return of the Seven LP from 1966! I was so happy that UA put this out. In the 60s UA LPs had a great amount of film scores, I too started buying the UA movie themes in 1964. I'm not sure what full ST LP I bought first, maybe How the West Was Won. Like you, The Guns of Navarone was one of the first. Elmer had a lot of LPs in the 60s so I played him the most.
Anyway, it sure is hard to believe we are getting cds to scores we never thought possible. I hope you get your holy grail of Way of A Gaucho. Hey, I'll buy it too! Peter
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Listening to that posted clip again in the wake of Intrada's Spy Who Came In From the Cold announcement. I hope THIS is the next Kaplan score to get a release!
Yavar
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