Maybe Dragon's Domain Records can do a kind of companion piece and the next David Michael Frank Collection can contain selections from his score to the failed 1981 TV series.
This is one of the few genuinely funny scores I've ever heard. If Varèse and Intrada have both had this one go through them, it must be a decent seller.
I didn't suspect that there were seperate film and album recordings. That's a real surprise. Hearing "Help!" on the promo video has convinced me that some of the album was recorded specifically for it.
Maybe the Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado tracks will make it into this new set, though I doubt we'll get the BeeGees' "Stayin' Alive".
One of my absolute favorite films as a kid. I still have the same LP I bought in 1979, though it hasn't been played in over 40 years. Missed out on the original Intrada and was ecstatic when Varese subsequently put it out.
Even though there is barely over 25 minutes of actual score (outside of the Manilow songs), I'm hard pressed to recall any significant cues that I've been missing hearing. Is it going to be a lot of <1 minute suspense tracking and under 30 second scene punctuation?
Intrada Announces: FOUL PLAY Composed and Conducted by CHARLES FOX INTRADA ISC 511
Intrada announces the revisit of a classic Charles Fox score, the 1978 Paramount Pictures film Foul Play. This new edition is a 2-CD set, remixed from the original 16-track sources stored at Paramount.The first disc features the complete score, including selections of The Mikado recorded for the film and assembled with the score as they appear in the film. Fox carefully constructed the score to seamlessly weave in and out of the operetta, as the film intercuts back and forth between the San Francisco street chase and a performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic. Disc 1 concludes with source music heard in the film and a few alternates (including the unassembled chase music from the end of the film for those that want it Mikado free) and film versions, including the film version of "Ready to Take a Chance Again." Disc 2 features the original album program, rebuilt from the newly mixed masters as well as the complete suite of cues recorded for The Mikado.
Charles Fox collaborated with lyricist Norman Gimbel to create a melancholy yet empowering song, “Ready to Take a Chance Again,” sung by Barry Manilow during a visually sweeping opening sequence. Fox incorporated the song's melody into the body of the film as an instrumental “Love Theme.” Though director Colin Higgins was saluting Hitchcock, Fox drew his musical style from the tense, orchestral sound of 1940s and ‘50s film noir. While Fox’s score reaches unusually dark heights, its menace is countered with a harmlessly hilarious action theme that pops up periodically and the tongue-in-cheek chase sequence at the end of the film.
Foul Play stars Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase and is a salute to Alfred Hitchcock, most notably the grand assassination plot of The Man Who Knew Too Much. Hawn plays Gloria Mundy, an innocent victim of knowing too much (or at least thought to know too much) about a plot to kill the Pope, and she becomes a target of an albino gunman and a nefarious "dwarf." Chase plays a handsome, glib detective who believes Mundy’s seemingly tall tales when no one else will. Together they make an effervescent screen couple like hip updates of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, in a San Francisco-set film that affectionately references Hitchcock classics.
Was on the fence to double dip for this but then I heard the samples… purchased. Will be a joy to hear Mikado interlaced with Fox’s score… and to get that chase cue in better sound. I’m ready to take a double dip again! See what I did there?
Charlie is the real deal. He was at our all young people Kritzerland show on August 11 because his grandson was in the show. We totally surprised him - I created a medley of his TV themes and the grandkid stopped the show cold with it - it included Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Wonder Woman (biggest reaction), Love, American Style, The Love Boat, and Angie. He loved it. We may do something together on Kritzerland. We're talkin' about it.
