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Had it. Sold it
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Nov 19, 2019 - 3:35 AM
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Absolutely love this score! Fielding has a lot more "important" scores to his name, but this is the one out of all of them that I can always go back to no matter what my mood is. Loved it ever since I saw it on the big screen on its first release. I still have a memory from back then of linking the visuals - during the Main Titles, from inside the car, as it takes a dip over one of the hilly San Fran roads - and the music almost sounds like it's going to quote the Bionic Woman theme. Then 30 years later it was on CD - a dream come true. Having said all that, I'm not sure it speaks "Dirty Harry" in the way that Schifrin's scores did - but neither did the film really. Of course, as we grow older and "wiser", we learned that the Rooftop Chase had been "adapted" from Maynard Ferguson's "Primal Scream" (composed by Jay Chattaway), as noted in an earlier post, and that there was an awful lot of recycled stuff from other scores. But then I just relax into it nowadays and it's a superb listen. Dirty Harry? More like blaxploitation with the Rooftop Chase. Great, typically Fielding snare drum and agitated piano, all those jazzy touches (love the swingin' version of that old hymn/gospel whatever it was in "Tiffany's Number 11"), and then the superb, emotionally exhausted Finale. Well, there are two, and I prefer the one as used in the film, but both are on the Aleph CD, thanks to the late Nick Redman and Co. There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests, and of Clint Eastwood driving a big car through San Francisco with some great music going on; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.
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The Enforcer score doesn't work for me as is more jazzy orientated like Never Say Never Again and feels kinda outta place in a cop thriller - Sorry! MAGNUM FORCE though is a revelation!
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The Enforcer score doesn't work for me as is more jazzy orientated like Never Say Never Again and feels kinda outta place in a cop thriller - Sorry! MAGNUM FORCE though is a revelation! Jazz ... out of place in a cop thriller?
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Behold TV shows & movies shown in 1959 or '60: M SQUAD, PETER GUNN, ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, etc. Detectives, police, juvenile delinquents, urban landscapes - These were typically underscored by crime jazz.
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Different strokes for different folks I guess!
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Nov 22, 2019 - 1:20 AM
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Graham Watt
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This little funky/jazz rhythm has been going through my head for a few days, and I'm not sure what track it is on THE ENFORCER... it might be "Raid on Mustafa's", but you tell me. I know that's a bit cryptic, but it gets crypticker - Whatever, I also know that this piece was repurposed later (or did it come earlier?) in another Fielding score, but I can't recall which one. Can you help? Also, we know that Jerry Fielding had no problem reusing his own themes time and time again, and also dipping into other composers' pieces for inspiration. We know that some of "Rooftop Chase" is based on the Jay Chattaway track performed by Maynard Ferguson (and linked to in an earlier post). Are you with me? Sorry if I lost you there. For those still with me, could the piece of music in THE ENFORCER (the actual track name eludes me) and something else (I can't remember what it is) be "based" around the first track from Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters" album from 1973? HERBIE HANCOCK - CHAMELION (from HEAD HUNTERS - 1973) https://youtu.be/3m3qOD-hhrQ If that Herbie Hancock piece doesn't remind you of anything on THE ENFORCER, you may leave. But if it does, I'd like... 1 - The name of the track in THE ENFORCER 2 - The name of the other Fielding film I can't remember which uses a very similar riff. 3 - If you think it's a conscious lift, or just a typically '70s funky beat. Thanking you!
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Absolutely love this score! Fielding has a lot more "important" scores to his name, but this is the one out of all of them that I can always go back to no matter what my mood is. Loved it ever since I saw it on the big screen on its first release. I still have a memory from back then of linking the visuals - during the Main Titles, from inside the car, as it takes a dip over one of the hilly San Fran roads - and the music almost sounds like it's going to quote the Bionic Woman theme. Then 30 years later it was on CD - a dream come true. Having said all that, I'm not sure it speaks "Dirty Harry" in the way that Schifrin's scores did - but neither did the film really. Of course, as we grow older and "wiser", we learned that the Rooftop Chase had been "adapted" from Maynard Ferguson's "Primal Scream" (composed by Jay Chattaway), as noted in an earlier post, and that there was an awful lot of recycled stuff from other scores. But then I just relax into it nowadays and it's a superb listen. Dirty Harry? More like blaxploitation with the Rooftop Chase. Great, typically Fielding snare drum and agitated piano, all those jazzy touches (love the swingin' version of that old hymn/gospel whatever it was in "Tiffany's Number 11"), and then the superb, emotionally exhausted Finale. Well, there are two, and I prefer the one as used in the film, but both are on the Aleph CD, thanks to the late Nick Redman and Co. There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests, and of Clint Eastwood driving a big car through San Francisco with some great music going on; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy. I'm watching The Enforcer now for the first time - I'm doing a Dirty Harry run; I've seen the first two several times before, but never the last three. I'm more of a Schifrin fan than a Fielding's (although there's plenty to dig here), but I simply had to bump this for those who missed out on Graham's wonderfully written final paragraph.
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