Greystoke, always liked the music from the trailer, but alas was not in the movie...Holst or Conti ?
Definitely Holst!
John Scott’s Score is exceptional and certainly provided the right tone for the film. Using Holst for the trailer seems inappropriate and at odds with the final film.
The trailer for GRAND CANYON featured a gorgeous choral/hymn-like piece that I was gutted not to hear when I finally saw the film (not that JNH's music was bad or anything, but I'd fallen in love with the trailer music). It took me years to find out it was a John Rutter classical piece.
I scoured the soundtrack album of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover to find that beautiful piece of music I didn't realize was tracked in from Drowning By Numbers (“Fish Beach”).
"Hoffa Trailer" is by far my favorite part of the HOFFA CD (David Newman). I'm pretty sure it's not heard in the movie.
I am right there with you!
I also loved Resolution and Hyperspace from Aliens (forget which one) that was tracked onto the end of Die Hard. I love Kamen’s work on that score but if I’m to be honest, I really fell in love with that Aliens track and for the longest time had no idea it was from another movie.
The trailer for GRAND CANYON featured a gorgeous choral/hymn-like piece that I was gutted not to hear when I finally saw the film (not that JNH's music was bad or anything, but I'd fallen in love with the trailer music). It took me years to find out it was a John Rutter classical piece.
My best example of the subject title is from John Huston's 1960 THE UNFORGIVEN. The scene is where the John Saxon character sweet talks a wild horse into being ridden and Tiomkin's score perfectly leads into a jaunty piece as Saxon easily rides the "bucky" horse around the corral.
I was always extremely frustrated with the UA soundtrack album as the cue is there up to the point Saxon starts to gently ride the horse then ends, leaving out the wonderful piece that follows.
Years later I am driving to work in Milwaukee listening to the long gone classical station WFMR and suddenly what should play but the missing theme for the horse ride and everything falls into place--Tiomkin had lifted a classical piece for Saxon's ride, perfectly orchestrating it to mesh with his scoring. I forget who the composer actually was, but obviously UA was not going to pay the rights to include this piece on the soundtrack album. Or, perhaps, Tiomkin did not want anything on the album he didn't actually compose.
Many music from the films of Terrence Malick, mostly the classical pieces he used in The Tree of Life. I liked Desplat's score as well, but listening to it on CD I definitely missed some majestic classical pieces that were in the film.
Another example: the best music in the Denzel Washington movie The Equalizer was Vengeance written by Zack Hemsey. It was perfect for the scene it accompanied.
This might not be quite what you mean, but one of my favorite tracks from DICK TRACY was the unused cue "Crime Spree", which was replaced by Sondheim's "Back in Business" in the film.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover was the film. Michael Nyman’s score was prominent and I was thrilled to find it in the record store, only to realize the music for “his wife and her lover,” featured half a dozen times or more during the film, did not appear on the soundtrack recording. Grrrrr, hate it when that happens, etc. it wasn’t until a year or so later, as I further explored Nyman’s output, that I discovered the lovers’ music on a previous Greenaway/Nyman collaboration soundtrack (Drowning by Numbers), with the title “Fish Beach.” The cue is barely used at all in the original film but to great effect in the latter.
Edit: I see I’m not the first to post about this one. Josh “Swashbuckler” I felt, and still feel, your pain.
There was a "Bugsy" trailer or commercial with music that wasn't from the score but definitely sounded like Morricone.
It remains a mystery to me.
Graham
Oh yeah, I liked that, too! I can still remember it.
It’s on vol 1 or 2 of EM Film Music compilations from the 80s. I’m guessing it was used as a temp track and EM was asked to more or less clone it for the movie’s main title music, as its almost the same piece with some orchestral variations.
"It's the Requiem...bark bark bing..." --------------- Yeah, I know that, soft shite. I said so in me post...'took me years to find out'....not what Rutter can it be??!!
