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Oct 26, 2011 - 8:19 PM
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dan the man
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Ronald Stein was a interesting composer, who seldom failed to be an asset to the films he scored. He had a distinction, a vibrant thrust with his music, that made everything he did a class act. A few examples, the enegictic score to Attack of the crab monsters-57, for sure during the last 15 or so minutes, is film music excitement at its best.Such an addictive main melody. His pretty main theme in many scenes in Attack of the 50 foot woman-58 is fine, and his exciting piece when the 2 policemen see the giant alien in the desert is superb. His opening theme from Dinosaurus-60- has a great melodic chilling vibe to it.The haunted palace-63- had a grand majestic main theme, melodic with a capital B-on and on , many more,it is a shame he died pretty young, and it is also a shame he didn't have a longer career where he could remain very active in the 70's and early 80's given us more fine scores that he gave early in his career.MR Stein represents to me, the truth, he was probably just as talented as the best of them but the roads he took or had to take[Aip, Allied Artists, indies] just deny him more fame.
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I really, really, really hope his beautiful score for Francis Ford Coppola's "The Rain People" sees a release eventually, either through an Amazon download-only like these or through a label like Kritzerland (one of the only labels I can see tackling it, honestly). Does anybody know the state on who owns this and if the tracks still exist?
Rain People is Warners, so right now it can't happen through us, but we're hoping we'll get in there one of these fine days.
Everyone, I'm sure, knows how much I adore Mr. Stein, having done the Not Of This Earth CD for Varese and working on a couple of others. He's fantastic. I especially love his score for Dementia 13, and his lovely wife Harlene gave me an original page of its score as a little gift, which I treasure.
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Oct 27, 2011 - 8:35 AM
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mrchriswell
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I like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Dime-With-A-Halo/dp/B004SV1DRQ/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1319693859&sr=1-16
What's the story with these? Will we ever see CD versions? If these were lossless downloads I'd get nearly all of them. Anyone know anything about the label, and how they get hold of all these recordings? Why haven't our normal labels picked up on these scores if they're all out there, apparently in decent shape?
A Google search later... apparently they're a legit LA outfit who have been around for decades rather than months. Their wares are available on iTunes also. I wonder why people releasing such soundtracks would not announce them in soundtrack forums, if they are legit releases.
I comb Amazon and iTunes all the time for soundtracks coming from these weird budget labels (Hallmark, Soundtrack Classics -- the names seem to always change). Very often there's stuff that the specialty labels like FSM and Intrada have issued -- things like Kings Go Forth, Butterfield 8, even the Lassie stuff. Sound is often tinny and pinched, but I sometimes download a track or two from soundtracks you can't find anywhere else. Quincy Jones' For Love of Ivy and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for instance, or Jerry Goldsmith's Lillies of the Field, or Fielding's Advise and Consent, or Raksin's Sylvia, Ortolani's Madrone, etc.
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