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I would encourage everybody to visit John Bender's "Retro Euro Cult Film Score" page on Facebook for tons of great and rare tracks!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/retroeurocultfilmscore/
Lukas
It was FSM's articles in the 1990s magazine about blaxploitation scores, Roy Budd music, John Bender's reviews, et al that first won me over to the idea that not all film scores had to be in the Herrmann-Williams-Goldsmith mode.
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Lalo Schifrin-
But was he truly a film composer first with a very wide palette, or come at it from another world like Quincy Junes & Herbie Hancock. He certainly spent most of his time on the film side here in The US.
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I once inquired about the rights to The Soul of... and the executive at the studio said, "I'd be afraid even to write the memo."
Lukas
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Thor
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It was FSM's articles in the 1990s magazine about blaxploitation scores, Roy Budd music, John Bender's reviews, et al that first won me over to the idea that not all film scores had to be in the Herrmann-Williams-Goldsmith mode.
Yes, I remember those columns well. At the time, it wasn't a genre of music I was particularly interested in (I still haven't DARED to explore the vast catalogue of obscure Italian genre scores of the 60s and 70s), but I was always fascinated by John's fascination for it. And so I read them, and learned. Today, I'm more willing to explore this territory, although it still seems dangerously overwhelming.
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Holy, cow, GL Kendall reads these threads?
Oh, I guess we've all got extra time now... 
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Would Laurie Johnson fit in this category too? I'm thinking of scores like THE NEW AVENGERS and THE PROFESSIONALS.
Yes, true. I just watched AND SOON THE DARKNESS yesterday and he had a groovy theme for that - although maybe a bit more corny than funky. But indeed he wrote some funky stuff for TV.
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Watching BORN TO WIN (1971). Some really nice street-groovy sounds from William S. Fischer.
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David Shire got funky in "Welcome to Cadwallader" from FAST BREAK (1979). He did it better than most, I think.
(No sound sample that I can find, dangit.)
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David Shire got funky in "Welcome to Cadwallader" from FAST BREAK (1979). He did it better than most, I think.
(No sound sample that I can find, dangit.)
Awesome! I might have to actually watch a Gabe Kaplan basketball movie to hear that. 
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What about "Something Kinda Funky" from BUCK ROGERS, and "It's Love, Love, Love" from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA? Skipping those would be crazy.
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