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Jul 6, 2008 - 11:15 AM
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Dana Wilcox
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With all due respect to Recordman and to Mr. Tiomkin, I won't be holding my breath waiting for this one to come out. I found the film virtualy unwatchable (the allure of the porcine, mustachioed Anna Magnani remains one of the great mysteries of my life), and the subject matter not precisely in Tiomkin's compositional wheelhouse. I've always felt that the man did his best work "outside" and came off pretty lame once things moved indoors. Soap opera material did not, IMO, bring forth his best creative energies. Much of the score for WITW is comprised of a sort of meandering, alternately maudlin and perky but unfocused elevator/wallpaper thing, with some source music thrown in. Tracks that seem to offer the hope of some rousing action music ("Wild Horses" and "Horse Chase" for example) sound instead much like the deedledy-doodledy music with which Tiomkin underscored the English-style Virginia riding scenes early in GIANT. WILD IS THE WIND might have been better scored by Frank Skinner or Elmer Bernstein, more suited in their styles and experience to soap opera fare.
Somebody dredge up the original tracks to GUNS OF NAVARONE and give us a complete score, fully remastered recording of that one! I love Tiomkin when he's rompin'!
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the best of the best.
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David Bowie did a cover version of "Wild Is The Wind" during his Man Who Fell to Earth period (I can't remember which record it was but they were a trilogy that featured cover photos from the movie.)that was better than Mathis' version. Really not a bad song. But the album is sour, sort of like the film.
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Yeah, this movie was a Puker of a misfire. A turd, if you will. I did like the theme the song sprang from. Three tracks are available on that old 1988 Columbia cd, THE FILM MUSIC OF DIMITRI TIOMKIN. I used to have that French box set reissue of all those old Columbia Records Tiomkin scores. This was one of them in the set.
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David Bowie did a cover version of "Wild Is The Wind" during his Man Who Fell to Earth period (I can't remember which record it was but they were a trilogy that featured cover photos from the movie.)that was better than Mathis' version. Really not a bad song. But the album is sour, sort of like the film.
I believe George Michael has also recorded this Tiomkin ballad in recent years - as has Barbra Streisand on her CD of songs from the movies. Amazing that the song has had such longevity.
But I agree that it's the only thing worth remembering from the soundtrack album.
- JMM
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