I'm kind of cheating here by presenting music from a John Barry stage musical, but I just listened to his "Passion Flower Hotel" 1965 cast album for the first time today and was delighted at Barry's overflow of catchy tunes. My initial idea was to use the track "What a Question" as sung by Jeremy Clyde and Nicky Henson, but it's on YouTube only with the entire album - however, I did find a John Barry instrumental 45 of that song as well as one other snazzy piece. They almost sound like cues from a totally awesome Barry 60s film score.....
I've been watching a few of Paul Schrader's older films. I think his best era is the early 1980s when he was working with brilliant people like cinematographer John Bailey, designers Ferdinando Scarfiotti and Eiko Ishioka and composers Philip Glass and Giorgio Moroder.
I hadn't even seen this thread before today. As for the lack of participants, I guess it's "preferable" to the inmates here to post album covers of full scores--and not even naming the album, as their faith in their image hosts is mighty--instead of just single cues.
Here's "Diamond on the Move", from the soundtrack to Richard Diamond. Composed by Pete Rugolo, not that anyone but me will even listen to it.
I've been watching a few of Paul Schrader's older films. I think his best era is the early 1980s when he was working with brilliant people like cinematographer John Bailey, designers Ferdinando Scarfiotti and Eiko Ishioka and composers Philip Glass and Giorgio Moroder.
I love this score. The Cat People soundtrack is better than other Moroder soundtracks in actually presenting the music as it is in the film (more so anyway) but I really wish this, and some others (Midnight Express, American Gigolo both come to mind--and maybe finally a CD release of Foxes which has some brilliant synth instrumentals) would get some sort of expanded editions at some point.
I love this score. The Cat People soundtrack is better than other Moroder soundtracks in actually presenting the music as it is in the film (more so anyway) but I really wish this, and some others (Midnight Express, American Gigolo both come to mind--and maybe finally a CD release of Foxes which has some brilliant synth instrumentals) would get some sort of expanded editions at some point.
I love this score. The Cat People soundtrack is better than other Moroder soundtracks in actually presenting the music as it is in the film (more so anyway) but I really wish this, and some others (Midnight Express, American Gigolo both come to mind--and maybe finally a CD release of Foxes which has some brilliant synth instrumentals) would get some sort of expanded editions at some point.
Agreed. Scarface too.
Absolutely. Given the cult of Scarface, I'm surprised we never got one (I know ten or 15 years back there was that release where Moroder apparently remixed the previous soundtrack himself--a couple tracks are well done but a lot aren't--but nothing else).
'Menace and Rescue' by Alfred Schnittke from Rikki Tikki Tavi. Incredibly thrilling chase music, and awesome recording by Frank Strobel. It starts to ramp up around 1:00. Some of Alfred Schnittke's film scores are somewhat underrated.
