Not only is there a pointless rock backbeat to this great track....but having to hear it looping for 15+ minutes near daily for the past few weeks has been pretty grueling....
Eh. It’s got a beat and you can dance to it.
Technically speaking, it's a re-mix of the original version and not a cover version.
I think it was 1973 or 74 ... a teenager with some pocket money looking for film music to buy. Annoyed with scratched records I started buying cassette tapes ("musicassettes") - I'd got my first stereo cassette recorder (complete with speakers - Philips) - but found very little choice.
One day I purchased Great Epic Film Themes - see: https://www.discogs.com/release/6134323-Various-Great-Epic-Film-Themes - and so discovered a dozen film tunes I didn't know. I'd seen one, maybe two, of the films but hadn't remembered the music; I'm sure I'd heard other versions of Tara's Theme but wouldn't have known what it was/its source.
Three tracks stood out from that dozen ... I liked them all but those three were the ones I wanted to hear time and again. Two were by Felix Slatkin (one of the greats from the Hollywood recordings of the 1950s): El Cid and The RobeLove Themes ...
.. and Tara's Theme performed by Ferrante and Teicher.
Kitch? Maybe ... but their rendition of this lovely Max Steiner melody helped create a life-long desire to hear wonderful music (forget the rock, pop noise that my contemporaries absorbed).
I've yet to buy an album by F&T and have only five of their recordings (from various compilation albums). I'm happy to say that Tara's Theme is one of them
For me there's no contest - some of the versions posted are so-so (to tell the truth I actually find a couple of them interesting), some are hilarious, some are downright bad... and then there's this criminal act:
I think it was 1973 or 74 ... a teenager with some pocket money looking for film music to buy. Annoyed with scratched records I started buying cassette tapes ("musicassettes") - I'd got my first stereo cassette recorder (complete with speakers - Philips) - but found very little choice.
One day I purchased Great Epic Film Themes - see: https://www.discogs.com/release/6134323-Various-Great-Epic-Film-Themes - and so discovered a dozen film tunes I didn't know. I'd seen one, maybe two, of the films but hadn't remembered the music; I'm sure I'd heard other versions of Tara's Theme but wouldn't have known what it was/its source.
I had that LP, I loved it. Themes from The Vikings, Taras Bulba, Charge Of The Light Brigade (Addison), Genghis Khan & The Ten Commandments among others. I don't even remember the F&T Tara's theme, I probably heard 10 seconds of it & quickly moved the arm to the next track.
I think it was 1973 or 74 ... a teenager with some pocket money looking for film music to buy. Annoyed with scratched records I started buying cassette tapes ("musicassettes") - I'd got my first stereo cassette recorder (complete with speakers - Philips) - but found very little choice.
One day I purchased Great Epic Film Themes - see: https://www.discogs.com/release/6134323-Various-Great-Epic-Film-Themes - and so discovered a dozen film tunes I didn't know. I'd seen one, maybe two, of the films but hadn't remembered the music; I'm sure I'd heard other versions of Tara's Theme but wouldn't have known what it was/its source.
Three tracks stood out from that dozen ... I liked them all but those three were the ones I wanted to hear time and again. Two were by Felix Slatkin (one of the greats from the Hollywood recordings of the 1950s): El Cid and The RobeLove Themes ...
.. and Tara's Theme performed by Ferrante and Teicher.
Kitch? Maybe ... but their rendition of this lovely Max Steiner melody helped create a life-long desire to hear wonderful music (forget the rock, pop noise that my contemporaries absorbed).
I've yet to buy an album by F&T and have only five of their recordings (from various compilation albums). I'm happy to say that Tara's Theme is one of them
I'd like to add that I don't mean to put them down as complete trash, but I think, you have to admit they did lots of kitschy stuff during their career.
Music, or generally any kind of art that is considered kitsch, can certainly be enjoyed favourably and in a genuine way. It can be quirky or eccentric, for example, without being a matter of controversy.
So, this thread is not meant to be grim and filled with anger. I see it more from a funny side with a smile.
Mind you, in 1987 I even bought a Fairlight Orchestra CD with Bond music. Not knowing yet back then that the "orchestra" was no real accoustic orchestra but all electronic. Only later, I learned what a Fairlight is. Thankfully, the CD skipped near the end, so I returned it and got my money back. Ouff.
No, I don't think it's BAD. It's fun to watch them.
Franck Pourcel's 1972 version of Giù la test is not BAD. It just doesn't work for me.
...on the same album he released his super-saccharine version of RRB's Nicholas & Alexandra Theme (it's not BAD either but sweeter than a spoonful of sugar - and that is not healthy):
Of all film themes, the one I believe has been murdered most often is Lara's Theme from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. The list is endless. As another example, here's Ray Conniff's disco version.
Shortly before his death, Percy Faith did a disco version of Max Steiner's theme from "A Summer Place" titled "A Summer Place '76" when Easy Listening music was somewhat on the decline.
Shortly before his death, Percy Faith did a disco version of Max Steiner's theme from "A Summer Place" titled "A Summer Place '76" when Easy Listening music was somewhat on the decline.
I've posted that disco version a few weeks ago in this thread (see some posts above).
For me there's no contest - some of the versions posted are so-so (to tell the truth I actually find a couple of them interesting), some are hilarious, some are downright bad... and then there's this criminal act:
Nero made some very good albums with RCA. When he signed with Columbia his recording career went south very quickly. His only real hit at this time was his recording of "Summer of '42".
