I recently watched this film (based on Flowers for Algernon) and it has an excellent score by Ravi Shankar, who did the score for Gandhi (1982). I couldn’t find much about Ravi Shankar on this board, and nothing at all about Charly. As far as I know, the score for this film was released on vinyl, but not on CD. There are lots of great pieces here, including the one that starts at 27:39. Enjoy!!!
Shankar is one of the world's greatest music legends, of course, but I agree that his film work is less talked about.
I'm not familiar with CHARLY, but his music for Satyjajit Ray's APU trilogy is worth mentioning. The first of them, PATHER PANCHALI, is one of my alltime favourite films. Ray often scored his own films, but used Shankar for these -- not sure why. But while sitar music (maybe with the occasional tabla or other Indian instrument) can be a bit challenging to listen to on its own for an extended period of time, the reserved nature of the score hit the right emotional tone of the films. Especially the aching flutes for certain death scenes.
But I'm off-topic....I'll listen to that CHARLY clip.
For those of us in the U.S. who are blocked from viewing the OP's clip. I have the LP, but haven't listened to any of this music for 20 years. Probably haven't watched the film in nearly 40 years.
During Rick Beato's recent interview with Tom Scott (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGra9K1sUIA) at around 48:30 Tom speaks about playing on the sessions for Charly and the whole recording process.
Wow, thank you for bringing this up. Charly was a big deal back in 68. Robertson won an Oscar for best actor and Shankar was getting a lot of attention at the time in the U.S.
I also haven't seen the film since . . . then, and I no longer have the LP. Looking forward to checking it out. I do have a number of Shankar's LPs/CDs.
I've skimmed through the music now, and it's really good. More western in style and tone than the Ray work I was talking about, more instruments, more things happening, but definitely good.
