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Sebesky co-wrote the score to The Rosary Murders, which had a very early CD release.
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I thought I'd seen a People Next Door LP over the years. The movie tends to feature songs more than score as background.
Similar to Goldsmith doing only the TV version, Robert Duvall plays one of the doctors in the original.
The remake is definitely not a 60s TV production - along with the Gordon Willis cinematography, it has a respectable amount of full male and female nudity. Even Cloris Leachman has a brief rear nude scene.
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It's go material with a beat, some more quieter expressive stuff albeit short, and a bunch of original songs. The film, based off skimming it, appears to be a shlog who's only saving grace is some occasional female nudity.
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In the filmscoremonthly world, Don Sebesky may be unknown, but like so many other silver age composers, Sebesky had a substantial career in jazz, composing and arranging for countless artists in pop and jazz, as well as his own albums--primarily on the CTI label, where he was the unofficial house arranger.
So, while his film career doesn't stack up to Goldsmith's, in the pop world he was a big deal, not unlike Oliver Nelson, Gary McFarland, Neal Hefti, and so on.
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Oh neat! Thank you for the background, since I was totally ignorant of his work!  Do you like any of his film music (released or unreleased)?
Yavar
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I'm unfamiliar with Sebesky's film career. I am most familiar with his excellent album on CTI The Rape of El Morro--exciting Spanish-flavored big band charts with a contemporary (1970s) beat and great solos--not unlike some of Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged works from the same era.
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Thanks again, both of you!
I’m glad folks will finally be able to discover the Goldsmith score, but this was a fascinating side tangent.
Yavar
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Goldsmith's end title was wonderful.
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Apart from The Rosary Murders, I mostly know Sebesky as the arranger/conductor of the album Symphonic Sondheim.
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Status update on stretch goal progress: Leigh had written, "for an additional €4776/ £4028/ $5265, we can capture this score by scheduling an extra session following the Pursuit & Crawlspace recordings (it would be recorded on the same day as one of these). That means the campaign stretch-goal figure will be €18,951 (convert as appropriate)."
An additional £1588 over goal has presently been raised, in the campaign's base currency. Going by current exchange rates to the currency in Prague, that is roughly €1880, or 39.5% progress towards reaching that stretch goal! Let's just keep that momentum going. Still almost 20 days left so I know we can make it.
Yavar
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Yeah it’s pretty neat! I wonder if there’s a longer version. But super cool that Jerry Goldsmith (and David Shire of course) got credited side by side with Aaron Copland on something.
Basically this is like Henry Mancini writing the NBC Mystery Movie theme but never scoring an actual Columbo or McCloud or whatever. (Would have been even better if Copland HAD scored the very first CBS Playhouse, of course!)
Yavar
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