01. Theme From The Lady In Red (1:57) 02. Main Title Music – 42nd Street (0:35) 03. First Bank Robbery (1:15) 04. Now That You Know (0:58) 05. Lonely (1:55) 06. The Garden Party (2:14) 07. 42nd Street – Juke Box Source (1:12) 08. Playing Baseball (0:59) 09. Love Theme (Film Version) (1:58) 10. California (1:07) 11. Laying The Trap – Part 1 (0:32) 12. Laying The Trap – Part 2 (0:19) 13. Dillinger’s Death #1 (0:58) 14. Dillinger’s Death #2 (1:38) 15. Polly’s Slap (0:46) 16. The Getaway (0:45) 17. Eddie’s Goodbye (0:39) 18. Pop’s Death (0:30) 19. 42nd Street – The Eggs (0:38) 20. End Title (1:38) 21. Love Theme – Postlude (2:02) Score Time: 24:30
THE EXTRA 22. Oriental Blues (2:58) Total CD Time: 27:28
Intrada announces the premiere release of James Horner's first film score, the 1979 ganster-drama The Lady in Red. The producers and directors had a very specific vision for what the music should sound like: they wanted it to reflect the 1930s setting with a score that adapted songs from the period. This is most prominent in Horner's adapation of 42nd Street, composed by Harry Warren. James Horner was quite adept at scoring for jazz and big band ensembles throughout his prolific career. His adaptations and original jazz numbers are crisp and skillfully written. The dramatic music is scored for a modest orchestra of trumpets, trombones, acoustic guitars, woodwinds and percussion. There are no ensemble strings and there are no French horns or tuba. It makes Horner's first film score one of his more unique. For this release, thanks to the generous cooperation of the James Horner estate and Shout! Studios, Intrada was able to access the 2” 16-track 30 ips session masters, preserved in pristine condition and newly mixed down to vivid two-track stereo, quite possibly for the first time as the film itself was only mixed in mono sound. Every instrument was recorded onto its own track on the masters, with one exception: the trombone. Given the prominence of the instrument in certain cues, we have positioned the tenor trombone on the left and the second on the right. The resulting timbre is both vibrant and exciting.
The film follows the life of young Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) from her childhood with an abusive father, through prostitution, to her run-in with John Dillinger (Robert Conrad), a notorious American gangster of the Great Depression.The Lady In Red’s originality lies in its feminist interpretation of the gangster film.
01. Theme From The Lady In Red (1:57) 02. Main Title Music – 42nd Street (0:35) 03. First Bank Robbery (1:15) 04. Now That You Know (0:58) 05. Lonely (1:55) 06. The Garden Party (2:14) 07. 42nd Street – Juke Box Source (1:12) 08. Playing Baseball (0:59) 09. Love Theme (Film Version) (1:58) 10. California (1:07) 11. Laying The Trap – Part 1 (0:32) 12. Laying The Trap – Part 2 (0:19) 13. Dillinger’s Death #1 (0:58) 14. Dillinger’s Death #2 (1:38) 15. Polly’s Slap (0:46) 16. The Getaway (0:45) 17. Eddie’s Goodbye (0:39) 18. Pop’s Death (0:30) 19. 42nd Street – The Eggs (0:38) 20. End Title (1:38) 21. Love Theme – Postlude (2:02) Score Time: 24:30
THE EXTRA 22. Oriental Blues (2:58) Total CD Time: 27:28
Intrada announces the premiere release of James Horner's first film score, the 1979 ganster-drama The Lady in Red. The producers and directors had a very specific vision for what the music should sound like: they wanted it to reflect the 1930s setting with a score that adapted songs from the period. This is most prominent in Horner's adapation of 42nd Street, composed by Harry Warren. James Horner was quite adept at scoring for jazz and big band ensembles throughout his prolific career. His adaptations and original jazz numbers are crisp and skillfully written. The dramatic music is scored for a modest orchestra of trumpets, trombones, acoustic guitars, woodwinds and percussion. There are no ensemble strings and there are no French horns or tuba. It makes Horner's first film score one of his more unique. For this release, thanks to the generous cooperation of the James Horner estate and Shout! Studios, Intrada was able to access the 2” 16-track 30 ips session masters, preserved in pristine condition and newly mixed down to vivid two-track stereo, quite possibly for the first time as the film itself was only mixed in mono sound. Every instrument was recorded onto its own track on the masters, with one exception: the trombone. Given the prominence of the instrument in certain cues, we have positioned the tenor trombone on the left and the second on the right. The resulting timbre is both vibrant and exciting.
The film follows the life of young Polly Franklin (Pamela Sue Martin) from her childhood with an abusive father, through prostitution, to her run-in with John Dillinger (Robert Conrad), a notorious American gangster of the Great Depression.The Lady In Red’s originality lies in its feminist interpretation of the gangster film.
Order of course. The first step in an outstanding career.
I suspect there are no sound clips because they don't want to turn people away. This score was not my cup of tea, but it was early Horner.
I sincerely doubt that would even cross anyone's mind, and it would say that they don't even believe in their own album.
Nothing is everyone's cup of tea but that's a huge assumption to make.
I think it's because the labels in general are pretty generous about their audio sample lengths, and this CD is just under a half hour long with most cues being below the average sample length they typically put on their site.
Offering up samples that average 90 seconds for 5 or 6 tracks would basically leave little left to actually listen to on the CD, and even 30 second samples could do the same with such short tracks.
The missing samples are probably just an oversight...
I would assume so.
Man this is short Obviously they can't put more than exists, but it really makes me long for the days when short scores like this were regularly put together with other ones. Especially if they are going to ask for $23 before shipping.
I suspect there are no sound clips because they don't want to turn people away.
The missing samples are probably just an oversight...
I would assume so.
Man this is short Obviously they can't put more than exists, but it really makes me long for the days when short scores like this were regularly put together with other ones. Especially if they are going to ask for $23 before shipping.
I suspect there are no sound clips because they don't want to turn people away.
Ridiculous.
Well that appears to be the complete score and given they had to remix it from the ground up, the price is more then reasonable.
The only thing they MIGHT have added if they could find the tapes might have been the little of music who wrote for a really bad Corman flick called UP FROM THE DEEPTHS, but it is about a 180 degrees different then this one and would have been at odds with the rest of the album, assuming they could find it.
In any case I'm happy to see this see the light of day.
Maybe the written cues exist with the Horner estate and it’s something Perseverance can tackle in their re-recording project, tacked onto some other lost early Horner…
This film and score (like The Great Texas Dynamite Chase) is an HBO/Cinemax classic for me. I was watching these films when I was most impressionable with film and film music so this is a no-brainer buy for me. When my dad went out to party, Cinemax at night in the house!
Ordered instantly. I'm not familiar with the movie at all - I'm bracing myself for minimal dramatic scoring, but the material in the Joe's trailer sounds great. So great to see Intrada tackling all these Horners so aggressively!
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