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James Fitzpatrick is the (long dead) guy who made those Technicolor MGM travelogues you see on Turner Classic Movies at Four A.M. (Did he do one that began "Now we come to the lovely, enchanted Valley of Gwangi, with its unusual fauna, found nowhere else on Earth..."?)
Ah no....
The James Fitzpatrick here was the inhouse producer for SILVA SCREEN RECORDS.
He produced most of Silva's recordngs over the last eight years.
Ford A.Thaxton
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I have to disagree on which is the best version. I have both the SAE remastered version with the previously unreleased tracks (running tine 72:39 with 42 tracks) as well as the Silva Screen Bremner version (55:06). I also have the original LP mono version. I love the SAE version produced by Craig Spaulding. I paid $40 for it in Italy a few years ago and now I see it at SAE website for $17. Also their is a rare 12x12 box set version for $250 though it is the same exact CD as the $17 version. My favorite tracks -- "Night in Blanco Canyon"(previously unreleased), "McKay's Ride" and "The Major Alone"
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I have to disagree on which is the best version. I have both the SAE remastered version with the previously unreleased tracks (running tine 72:39 with 42 tracks) as well as the Silva Screen Bremner version (55:06). I also have the original LP mono version. I love the SAE version produced by Craig Spaulding. I paid $40 for it in Italy a few years ago and now I see it at SAE website for $17. Also their is a rare 12x12 box set version for $250 though it is the same exact CD as the $17 version. My favorite tracks -- "Night in Blanco Canyon"(previously unreleased), "McKay's Ride" and "The Major Alone"
Yep, the box set is the same CD, but the booklet is also 12"X12" and well worth the money for the box set. I got mine on eBay for a lot less than $250, but more than $40.
What I hope to find one day is "The Mystic Warrior" with booklet....I have it without...but that booklet was a treasure and ought to have been reprinted. Hell...it's interesting enough by itself.
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My God! Galina, you'd never heard Big Country", what other delights still await you.
This is an absolutely tremendous score in all its versions.
I was at the recording sessions of the Bremner version, and no-one was aware at the time that the Main Title was a tad slow. It all sounded terrific. It was only when I heard the CD that the fault was obvious. I quickly got used to it, and now the NEW main title on the re-issue, recorded by the Prague Philharmonic sounds out-of-place. I dare say I'll get used to that as well. All Silva's Moross efforts have been superb, especially "The Mountain Road" on their first suites volume, and even more "The Jayhawkers" on Volume Two.
George Flaxman.
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Complete recordings of THE JAYHAWKERS, and other Moross scores, are long overdue.
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"I was at the recording sessions of the Bremner version, and no-one was aware at the time that the Main Title was a tad slow. It all sounded terrific. It was only when I heard the CD that the fault was obvious. I quickly got used to it, and now the NEW main title on the re-issue, recorded by the Prague Philharmonic sounds out-of-place."
I also prefer Bremner's version of the main title. Yes the tempo is slower, but it's more satisfying in my opinion, as the faster interpretation seems far too rushed. Also, the City of Prague Philharmonic lacks the precision of the Philharmonia, and is yet another reason I prefer the Bremner version.
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So did the Titanic, and look where that led.
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10 years ago I lived in Northern New Mexico near Taos. I used to put the top down in my car, pop "The Big Country" into my CD player and drive west over the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge with the music playing. Talk about being one with the earth. No better music to drive through the Southwest while listening to.....
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I guess that's how you Get Your Kicks on Route Sixty-six...
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I'd give it 9/10, but one thing that concerned me was that the title track sounded different to the rest. On reading the CD notes I learned that this track was recorded later by the Prague Symphony and had a different producer. I can't understand why they did this.
Because the later version is closer to the OST version, then the orignal version they recorded.
Ford A. Thaxton
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The re-recording is very nice and certainly one of Silva's best, but why hasn't anybody released the OST yet? I know Screen Archives issued some promo-ish version a decade ago, but back then I hadn't yet found the film music scene.
Varese has decided that some Rykodisc albums which went OOP just a couple of years ago are worthy of re-release, so why don't they attempt to tackle this score as well?
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'Also their is a rare 12x12 box set version for $250'.
I was going to ask about this version. It was presented to me as a gift.
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