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Yeah, Roger said Volunteers is good to go, music/tapes wise.
It's the TV company in the UK, who own the rights, but have no interest in brokering a deal for a CD score release.
Not sure where that came from, but that's not who owns it. Good man, that Roger, though.
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I will buy both,at least legal eagles! This is the album but where is the original score ?
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It’s sooo good, Graham. More (late) Golden Age than Silver Age (like all of Goldsmith’s other westerns, including the earlier Black Patch) in sound. Very unique in his output really, with a strong hint of Miklos Rozsa and Andre Previn in the main title, in particular. I think you said even a hint of Rosenman? (Or was it someone else who made that comment?)
But definitely Golden Age fans as well as Goldsmith fans should snap this premiere up. I was particularly surprised to learn that this was actually entirely recorded on one day: December 29, 1958! So just like City of Fear Jerry wrote and recorded it the previous year even though it's technically a '59 film.
Yavar
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It’s sooo good, Graham. More (late) Golden Age than Silver Age (like all of Goldsmith’s other westerns, including the earlier Black Patch) in sound. Very unique in his output really, with a strong hint of Miklos Rozsa and Andre Previn in the main title, in particular. I think you said even a hint of Rosenman? (Or was it someone else who made that comment?)
But definitely Golden Age fans as well as Goldsmith fans should snap this premiere up. I was particularly surprised to learn that this was actually entirely recorded on one day: December 29, 1958! So just like City of Fear Jerry wrote and recorded it the previous year even though it's technically a '59 film.
Yavar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ryzgR9ZmWA
Sounds really interesting. A cross between Copeland Americana and some more modern harmonic sensibilities.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ryzgR9ZmWA
Sounds really interesting. A cross between Copeland Americana and some more modern harmonic sensibilities.
If you've got five minutes to spare check out this fun PSA we did back in September 2018 when Intrada seemed to be considering a re-recording twofer of this and Black Patch: https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/813340-vote-goldsmith-for-kickstarter
We include the one minute finale cue from Black Patch but also the badass action cue from near the end of Face of a Fugitive, to extol the score's virtues! (You'll have to forgive the James Coburn yelling -- "He's on the roof!" -- at times though, as we of course pulled it directly from the film.) There's also a really pretty love theme, but my favorite thing in the score by far is actually a tragic regretful theme called Danny's Theme...heard to particularly heartbreaking effect in "So Long, Boy", "Special Delivery", and "Bitter Thoughts". I won't say any more because I don't want to spoil the film, which is actually a really solid and well done B western which I recommend to fans of the genre. For those who don't mind eventual spoilers and who want to hear a lot more of what the score sounds like (I think we play all but a few cues), check out Episode 3 of The Goldsmith Odyssey from way back in April 2018: https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/673893-episode-3-face-of-a-fugitive-1959-toccata-1958
Yavar
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I will buy both,at least legal eagles! This is the album but where is the original score ?
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is one of those scores where a separate recording was made for the LP, right? I think Intrada licensed the LP recording from Universal Music Group, which is a different entity at this point from Universal Pictures which distributed the film. If the film recording survives it would require separate licensing, and maybe/hopefully that'll happen some day. But for now I'm super excited to be getting the CD premiere of a really cool LP recording.
Yavar
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