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 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:25 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

After years of bitching about the lack of Les Baxter and Kenyon Hopkins, I am BOWLED OVER that this has been released!

I am ordering ASAP.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:26 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

I hope to learn more about the mentioned "semi-mysterious circumstances".

Allegedly his drink was dosed in a bar.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:27 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Everyone needs to see the documentary "This is Gary McFarland" which came out last year!

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:28 PM   
 By:   Kenneth English   (Member)

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I hope to learn more about the mentioned "semi-mysterious circumstances".
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Yeah! What's the poop on that, anyway?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:31 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)



Yeah! What's the poop on that, anyway?


See the documentary "This is Gary McFarland" which came out last year and you will know.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:31 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

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I hope to learn more about the mentioned "semi-mysterious circumstances".
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Yeah! What's the poop on that, anyway?


There's not much info, unless the doc that OnyaBirri mentioned will shed any light.

This is what's known:
"And then, he died. Just like that. On November, 3, 1971, Gary McFarland was, for reasons that still obscure his family and the law, poisoned. Along with his friend, writer David Burnett, McFarland ingested a fatal dose of methadone, which somehow did not belong to him and yet was poured into their drinks. Both were dead within hours."

http://www.dougpayne.com/gmjoey.htm

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:41 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)



If many in jazz circles have forgotten McFarland then they're not worthy of being in jazz circles.


Part of what happened - aside from his being murdered at such a young age - was that many jazz snobs rejected the pop direction took toward the mid to late 60s. Many jazz artists felt compelled to do more pop-oriented stuff to sell records, but in Gary's case, the pop influence was a genuine reflection of where he was at the time.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:43 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Does the booklet with the CD reproduce Verve's (proposed) LP cover anyplace?

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 1:43 PM   
 By:   nekromantik   (Member)

The best cover I've ever seen, for a really cool score (the samples are great!)!

Many thanks FSM!

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 2:17 PM   
 By:   Melchior   (Member)

Unbelievable, never thought that this score will see a CD-Release. And it´s even longer than the Virgin master.

Thank you very much, Lukas and the crew at FSM.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 2:29 PM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

1. I've never heard of the composer.
2. I've never seen, but have heard of, the film.
3. I listened to the samples.
4. They're WONDERFUL!

Thanks, FSM!

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 3:15 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Worth getting for the main title alone.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 3:25 PM   
 By:   Stefan Miklos   (Member)

This is a really great score. We were worried that people would overlook it because it's so obscure. I hope people check it out.

Lukas




I watched the film many times on the cable. The cast is fabulous and the cinematography is beautiful. It's between a fairytale and a haunted house type done in a Baroque way.
I listened to the music clips which are elegant and what a great main theme featuring a superb harp.
I will order it.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 4:23 PM   
 By:   vinylscrubber   (Member)

Bless FSM for providing what is probably the ONLY McFarland currently available on CD. This is a score well worth picking up. One can only imagine what he might have done in the world of film had he lived.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

Bless FSM for providing what is probably the ONLY McFarland currently available on CD. This is a score well worth picking up. One can only imagine what he might have done in the world of film had he lived.

McFarland's only other score was for the little-seen Cannon Films release "Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?" from 1971. One can only imagine where those tracks might be.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 5:39 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

Bless FSM for providing what is probably the ONLY McFarland currently available on CD. This is a score well worth picking up. One can only imagine what he might have done in the world of film had he lived.

The only soundtrack McFarland - there's plenty of jazz CDs - I've got 'em.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 5:51 PM   
 By:   franz_conrad   (Member)

This new marketing ploy has worked. I have purchased both! (Perhaps the material itself is partly responsible for my enthusiasm, but I doubt I would have purchased EYE OF THE DEVIL if there had been a thread titled 'New FSM: HEAVY METAL'. The eye is a funny thing - gravitates to certain objects.)

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 6:51 PM   
 By:   Joe Sikoryak   (Member)

Does the booklet with the CD reproduce Verve's (proposed) LP cover anyplace?

The original LP cover does appear in the FSM booklet, but it doesn't look anything like our cover. No confusion will result. But you'll have to buy the CD to see it.

Joe "move-those-units!" Sikoryak

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 6:54 PM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Does the booklet with the CD reproduce Verve's (proposed) LP cover anyplace?

The original LP cover does appear in the FSM booklet, but it doesn't look anything like our cover. No confusion will result. But you'll have to buy the CD to see it.

Joe "move-those-units!" Sikoryak


Thanks, but that's not what I'm asking.

Does it appear full size and with the right colors?

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2008 - 7:37 PM   
 By:   Lukas Kendall   (Member)


All we had on the Verve cover was the dot-matrixy pic from that Down Beat magazine so we used it inside the booklet and at a smaller size. Sorry if this wasn't what you were looking for.

lk

 
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