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Apr 6, 2009 - 10:17 AM
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MusicMad
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I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster* Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
* in fact, Terror rather than Disaster
And a Suspense one, with Rififi, Frenzy and others.
I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
Wow! Never heard of that double LP?
Geoff Love was so much a part of my childhood, I had almost all the albums mentioned and even got to see Geoff conduct once, at the Filmharmonic 80 concert ( John Williams being the star attraction ), such great memories.
I never had the Star Wars "Disco" album, can you tell me what the track listing on that one is Chris?
I was at that concert, too, but admit that I had forgotten Geoff's presence as a guest conductor. Now you mention it, of course!
For track listings, look at:
http://www.mercuryrapids.co.uk/geofflove/index.htm
If you click on the album, you'll see contents.
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Apr 6, 2009 - 10:22 AM
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Tall Guy
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I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
Wow! Never heard of that double LP?
Geoff Love was so much a part of my childhood, I had almost all the albums mentioned and even got to see Geoff conduct once, at the Filmharmonic 80 concert ( John Williams being the star attraction ), such great memories.
I never had the Star Wars "Disco" album, can you tell me what the track listing on that one is Chris?
I never had the Star Wars Disco one - thankfully - but the Morricone/Legrand had mostly what you'd expect plus one or two very nice surprises, such as Quando La Donna Avevano La Coda (sp?) together with authentic-sounding burps.
The LPs I had were the War, Terror and Suspense ones. I still have the first of these only because it belonged to my father and I kept it for sentimental reasons.
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Apr 6, 2009 - 11:38 AM
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I also have lurking somewhere, the Westerns album from that series, and the Disaster* Movies LP. There was a Concertos album too, and an abominable 'funky' 'Star Wars' disco album.
* in fact, Terror rather than Disaster
And a Suspense one, with Rififi, Frenzy and others.
I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
Wow! Never heard of that double LP?
Geoff Love was so much a part of my childhood, I had almost all the albums mentioned and even got to see Geoff conduct once, at the Filmharmonic 80 concert ( John Williams being the star attraction ), such great memories.
I never had the Star Wars "Disco" album, can you tell me what the track listing on that one is Chris?
I was at that concert, too, but admit that I had forgotten Geoff's presence as a guest conductor. Now you mention it, of course!
For track listings, look at:
http://www.mercuryrapids.co.uk/geofflove/index.htm
If you click on the album, you'll see contents.
Thank you MM, I ended up looking through a lot of those and now realise I only ever had a small handful. ( War, Bond, Star Wars, Disaster, Westerns )
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Apr 6, 2009 - 11:42 AM
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Timmer
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I also had a Geoff Love double LP with one disc of Legrand covers, and one of Morricone. Some great interpretations (not counting the dollars trilogy themes, which nobody does as well as the originals, including Morricone himself).
Wow! Never heard of that double LP?
Geoff Love was so much a part of my childhood, I had almost all the albums mentioned and even got to see Geoff conduct once, at the Filmharmonic 80 concert ( John Williams being the star attraction ), such great memories.
I never had the Star Wars "Disco" album, can you tell me what the track listing on that one is Chris?
I never had the Star Wars Disco one - thankfully - but the Morricone/Legrand had mostly what you'd expect plus one or two very nice surprises, such as Quando La Donna Avevano La Coda (sp?) together with authentic-sounding burps.
The LPs I had were the War, Terror and Suspense ones. I still have the first of these only because it belonged to my father and I kept it for sentimental reasons.
I realised while looking through the titles that I have heard the Disco Star Wars album as a friend of mine had it, I've either forgotten it or my brain has wiped the memory out
Love put certain tracks on his albums that were almost impossible to get like The Time Machine, and certain tracks on the TV theme compilations were the ONLY versions you could get at that time.
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In the same vein as the original post of this thread:
Roger Webb
Mike Oldfield
Max Steiner
James Bernard
Al Kasha / Joel Hirschchorn
James Bernard
Al Kasha / Joel Hirschchorn
John Cacavas
Michael J Lewis
John Williams
John Morris
John Williams
I'll give the answer - they're the composers, in play order, of a Geoff Love LP called "Musiques de Films d'Horreur et de Catastrophes" (!). It's an import from Belgium and while six of the tracks are duplications off his Big Terror Movie Themes album, the other six, as far as I know, have never been released in the UK even though THEATRE OF BLOOD and the two Hammer scores are from British films!
The mystery is the opening track, "Night Of Horror". I can't find anything on the IMBD for Webb that would fit, except possibly the theme to a 1970 TV show called "Shadows of Fear" which maybe got retitled in Belgium. Google is absolutely no help.
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Apr 22, 2009 - 12:02 PM
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MusicMad
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So, Hercule, do you have a track listing?
I've never heard of this album but a Google provides some info - e.g.:
eBay.fr
face 1: night of horror,l'exorciste "tubular bells"(the exorcist),king kong,le baiser du vampire(kiss of the vampire),l'aventure du poseidon(the poseidon adventure),dracula et les femmes(dracula has risen from the grave)
face 2 : la tour infernale( the towering inferno),airport 1975,theatre de sang(theatre of blood),les dents de la mer(jaws),frankenstein junior(young frankenstein),tremblement de terre(earthquake)
What gets me - I don't know either score by JW - is why the themes from Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno are credited (according to Hercule) to: Al Kasha / Joel Hirschchorn.
I can't be bothered (at this time) to do any research on this ...
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So, Hercule, do you have a track listing?
I've never heard of this album but a Google provides some info - e.g.:
face 1: night of horror,l'exorciste "tubular bells"(the exorcist),king kong,le baiser du vampire(kiss of the vampire),l'aventure du poseidon(the poseidon adventure),dracula et les femmes(dracula has risen from the grave)
face 2 : la tour infernale( the towering inferno),airport 1975,theatre de sang(theatre of blood),les dents de la mer(jaws),frankenstein junior(young frankenstein),tremblement de terre(earthquake)
What gets me - I don't know either score by JW - is why the themes from Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno are credited (according to Hercule) to: Al Kasha / Joel Hirschchorn.
Because they wrote the songs "The Morning After" and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from Poseidon and Inferno respectively; the tracks on the Love LP are versions of those pieces and not the Williams scores.
However, on the subject of the LP, there is one major, major, major defect: sound effects over the music. Screaming passengers over the start of AIRPORT 75, creaking coffinlids over DRACULA HAS RISEN... What a pity. Since the effects-laden tracks play without effects on the BIG TERROR LP, one can only hope there's a music-only version of the other tracks as well.
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I do love a Geoff Love love-in.
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I do love a Geoff Love love-in.
What about a Stanley Black black-out?
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I just dug out my old 'War Movies' LP. I've transferred (roughly ... just an Mp3 file, and very little cleaning up) the Miklos Rozsa 'Green Berets' march from the album. Could it be a Rozsa arrangement? When you listen to the chords and the strings it has that poignancy, but it's a little 'light' in terms of the upfront percussion. Maybe Rozsa's own notion for the title would have been a little like this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1qrfnmmt5v3/Rozsa GB .mp3
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I remember that GREEN BERETS theme, which I had on tape. (I don't believe the album was ever released in the USA.) Though just slightly "lightweight," it stood for more than thirty years as the only music we had from that score.
Yes, it's slightly 'lightweight' but Love manages to make 'Where Eagles Dare' sound a bit light too. He's using a full-scale London orchestra ... I think it's to do with the upfront way he records the march drumbeat that is a little 'Mickey-Mouse'.
I was thinking about this. I have a suspicion that this was his idea for a title, had he been allowed full rein. I base this on the following:
(1) The FSM Title on the OST is 2:19 and this is 2:27. Very close. He may have intended a bigger orchestration.
(2) It's very unlike Rozsa to endlessly vary a theme in a film without ever actually fully stating that theme. There's nowhere on the OST where the full theme, with extension and reprise is ever stated. If you had just the FSM CD, you'd not actually be able to whistle the whole tune from end to end! That's not FSM's fault, it's a GREAT CD. He just wasn't allowed. It makes a good Overture for the FSM if you like.
(3) Although it's very poignant and compassionate, it does fit the very modern, clean, minimalist images of the title cards quite well.
(4) It has Rozsa's trademark way with contrapuntal swapping, and his chords and strings etc.. It feels like the man himself, his sensibility.
(5) There is another 'budget' recording of the same piece on another CD but with a smaller orchestra, anonymously conducted. That suggests it's published and available somewhere ... the more likely were it Rozsa's own.
I feel he had a hand in it.
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