On the original British issue of the RCA soundtrack LP of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, the British composer Robert Mellin is credited with co-composing the Main Title and The Man with No Name. Aside from these two tracks everything else is credited to Morricone alone. Does anyone have the lowdown on this, please?
I've wondered about this myself.I have heard a whisper that Mellin was an alias for Morricone,or at least an arrangement where the name was used.Perhaps it was for legal/contractual reasons.This then leads us to the possibility that EM wrote some of the music(with Gian Piero Reverberi)to the old b/w tv show 'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'.If you have heard it then I think you'll agree that some does sound like it's from EM's pen.Makes you think,eh?
Robert Mellin is credited with doing a few other westerns around that time. Reverberi went on, as I'm sure you know, to do those "Venice in Peril" recordings, which are neo-classical music in pop arrangements.
Robert Mellin is credited with doing a few other westerns around that time. Reverberi went on, as I'm sure you know, to do those "Venice in Peril" recordings, which are neo-classical music in pop arrangements.
