The Undefeated/Hombre CD

Now Available! Two Previously Unreleased Western Scores on One CD!

News flash by Lukas Kendall

Now in stock and ready to ship is our newest limited edition FSM Silver Age Classics release, featuring two top-notch '60s western scores from the 20th Century Fox archives that have never been available before. They come from two composers seldom represented on disc: The Undefeated by Hugo Montenegro and Hombre by David Rose.

In the late 1960s, America's most popular and enduring genre went nova. This was, to say the least, a final burst of freaky creativity -- good and bad -- from a fading genre, bringing revisionism, surrealism, dinosaurs, and even Elvis Presley to the "cowboy" movie. The western was undergoing radical change and experimentation, and we present two never-before-available scores from that period: Both were produced by 20th Century-Fox with top-line casts: John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The Undefeated; Paul Newman and a sturdy ensemble in Hombre.

The Undefeated is a sprawling escapist western involving Civil War factions, Mexican politics, bandits, mustangs and brawls -- typical Duke fare, but with updated scope and ambitions. The score, by Hugo Montenegro, is a long, showy score steeped in tradition yet with a pop gleam in its eye; it features reams of deceptively simple yet memorable thematic material. Its terrific main theme could easily be at home in a modern-day NFL broadcast.

In contrast, Hombre is a sober portrait of human interaction and prejudice, re-teaming Newman with a filmmaker of great deliberate craft, director Martin Ritt. David Rose, who scored pop song hits with "The Stripper" and "Holiday for Strings" wrote a short, sparse score that we have collected into longer suite-form tracks; the music presents a meaningful and melodic echo of the story's quiet deliberations.

Together, these scores add up to over an hour of music in newly remixed stereo. Along with a bonus "mystery track", this CD stands as a tribute to two distinguished, prolific but underrepresented musicians -- and a snapshot of their memorable contributions to the western's last days.

$19.95 plus shipping

The Undefeated (47:33)

Music Composed and Conducted by Hugo Montenegro

1. The Undefeated (4:00)
2. Southern Charm (1:57)
3. Burning the Plantation (2:13)
4. Meet Blue Boy (3:17)
5. Foggy River (2:40)
6. River Crossing (3:45)
7. Letıs Go! (3:02)
8. Happy Hour (Hoedown) (4:39)
9. Do You Mind? (1:07)
10. All But Jamison (1:31)
11. Bandits (2:51)
12. The Horses (1:17)
13. Suppertime (2:04)
14. New Campsite (1:02)
15. Incident in Mexico (9:38)
16. Mission Accomplished (1:38)
17. End Title (1:07)

Hombre (21:30)

Music Composed and Conducted by David Rose

• 18. Hombre (4:22)
• 19. Stagecoach (3:13)
• 20. Bandits (6:24)
• 21. John Russell (4:01)
• 22. Single (3:17)

Mystery Bonus Track

• 23. Hombre Trailer (3:30)

Album produced by Lukas Kendall & Douglass Fake

Total time: 72:33

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