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Dec 29, 2010 - 6:12 AM
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Jim Phelps
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JAWS? What's that? Didn't film music start with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN? LOL You joke, but this is the same generation that threw 400 million dolars at Transformers 2 like it had a gun pointed at its collective head. Okay, back on topic... The Shop of the Four Winds- As mentioned before, Bernstein has a wonderful asian motif running through it. I don't think it appears on the LP, which is a shame. In the episode it is used in many different arrangements: a straight up instrumental, as source music in the Japanese restaurant, a vocal by the female guest star, a stop-and-start ("staccato"?) version during the fight and pursuit scenes, and finally as source music once again, with Cassavetes playing the tune on solo piano; it's a most beautiful theme.
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Ah, here's the episode Shop of the Four Winds, It won't allow embedding, but the links will take you directly to the cues: first here's the vocal source rendition, as performed by Nobu McCarthy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOESfFm8Ytg&feature=player_detailpage#t=361s Followed by the "action" version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtAV4TlRfEQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=168s Finally, there's the the piano version of the theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtAV4TlRfEQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=477s Jim, love your enthusiasm for this, but it's actually a traditional Japanese melody, first used (I think) in an adaptation by Saul Chaplin for The Teahouse of the August Moon in the late 'fifties. Goldsmith made brief reference to it too in the Treaty-signing sequence in MacArthur. Getting back to Staccato, have you checked out "Murder for Credit" yet, an episode with a bravura turn by Charles McGraw and a subdued appearance by Martin Landau. The background to this is a musical composition called 'Life' and it's a sort of concerto-like tune for piano. Great stuff. - James MacMillan.
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"The way I got it figured, one of them wants to murder me dead!" Great stuff. I'm really going to have to check this out I think
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Dec 31, 2010 - 6:42 AM
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Jim Phelps
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"The way I got it figured, one of them wants to murder me dead!" Great stuff. I'm really going to have to check this out I think It's well worth the pittance it sells for, Simon. I realize that a lot here won't like it: it's Black & White, it's Mono, it's not by Lucas or Spielberg, no Goldsmith, etc. It's a very good show, even great at times. I don't think there was anything quite like it on TV in terms of content. Yes, there were numerous TV P.I.s, but none of those other programs were quite like Staccato. Cassavetes directed five or so episodes and they're among the series' best.
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Has anyone heard the reissue CD of the Capitol album? I have a rip from vinyl but have not heard the actual CD. How is the sound? Sounds absolutely fine to me. Pretty wide separation - saxes very clearly on the left and brass clearly on the right, piano in the centre etc. There might be a little tiny bit of distortion now and again but only noticeable through headphones. I've got the vinyl album somewhere - as I recall, here in England it was released by 'That's Entertainment Records'. I was always a bit wary about their releases because to me the vinyl seemed to get annoyingly 'scratchy' quite easily.
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