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Aug 29, 2015 - 8:11 AM
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Ag^Janus
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ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO is a film from 1964 that stars Barbara Barrie as a mid-western divorcée who falls in love with and marries a black man and her ex is so disgusted he sues to have their child taken away from her and wins. It's a devastating film which won Barrie the best actress award at Cannes, I believe. Mr. Fried's score is simple and childlike, a jolly jig-like tune on the accordion, which is ultimately devastating. I rank it easily with TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT in its effectiveness and capturing childhood innocence. I don't believe it has ever been released in any form, but a sound capture plays happily on my iPod all the time. It also stars James Earl Jones' father, Robert, as the father-in-law. A fascinating and brave movie for any time, but considering it was made in 1964, it's also truly visionary.
Thank you.
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ONE POTATO, TWO POTATO is a film from 1964 that stars Barbara Barrie as a mid-western divorcée who falls in love with and marries a black man and her ex is so disgusted he sues to have their child taken away from her and wins. It's a devastating film which won Barrie the best actress award at Cannes, I believe. Mr. Fried's score is simple and childlike, a jolly jig-like tune on the accordion, which is ultimately devastating. I rank it easily with TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT in its effectiveness and capturing childhood innocence. I don't believe it has ever been released in any form, but a sound capture plays happily on my iPod all the time. It also stars James Earl Jones' father, Robert, as the father-in-law. A fascinating and brave movie for any time, but considering it was made in 1964, it's also truly visionary.
That was nice to read... I saw the film once, on TV here in the UK years and years ago but still remember it's impact and how well-scored it was. To my knowledge, it's never been shown on TV in the UK since!
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yeah always liked his work. Recently saw the Man from Uncle films on Tcm and was reminded how well he re-orchestrated his version of the uncle theme and wrote such good incidental scores.
Too late the hero, as many have said, was a great score and any collector back then who liked their war films knew his name.
But Roots was the one. it was huge at the time in many countries. had massive impact. as the world was introduced to chicken george and kunte kinte etc. and Geralds music really made its impact reach another emotional level - that theme was like an anthem for the history of africa and slavery. i cant think of a modern equivalent series as a comparison but everyone - and i mean everyone - watched it each week.
As for no Lp or Cd, i had a n LP. Bob may know the details. . It had dialogue but im pretty certain the main theme was on there . i think it was a foldout one.
Pleased to hear he is well. You make sure you tell him how important he was to that era.
what he wrote for Roots was just perfect.
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Bill, I remember the ROOTS fold-out LP. A friend had it, but I never bought it because I wanted more Gerald Fried on it. I seem to remember that it was more of a concept album by Quincy Jones, with a lot of traditional African music and arrangements by Q on it, plus the dialogue you mention. The Fried theme may have been there too, but it wasn't enough for me.
By the way, any confirmation on the tráiler music for BIRDS DO IT, BEES DO IT? I'm afraid you'll have to suffer my earlier post to get an idea of what I'm on about. Chimpos and all that.
Hi, Graham.
I have a 3-LP set of ROOTS which does have (some of) the Fried music but this album also contains lots of dialogue and sound effects.
Seems as though record producers at that time felt that a music-only album was not of much commercial interest.
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I asked Fried about "Roots":
http://rejectedfilmscores.150m.com/geraldfriedinterview.html
What exactly was your involvement with the 1977 series "Roots"?
Quincy Jones wrote part of the first episode. Three weeks before air-time, he had not yet come up with a main theme. I was brought in, wrote the Main Theme, finished Episode One, and did every ROOTS project since then.
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There's about two and a half hours of score in the first series of ROOTS, all of it excellent.
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That's a lot of music, Stephen! Do you remember it from DVDs or something?
Yes indeed. And the sequel series ROOTS: THE NEXT GENERATION is just as generously scored. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) this music deserves to be released.
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By the way, I'm going through Season 2 of the original "Star Trek" again, and although last night's episode ("The Changeling") was tracked, evry time a Gerald Fried cue appeared I could recognise it in the first few seconds.
"Error ... Error ... Faulty ... Faulty ... must sterilize. STERILIZE!"
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