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Peter: Re your "The problem with the 'Two For The Road' CD is it is mainly source music and is missing significant amounts of really gorgeous score." I beg to differ in at least one part of that, because I think that your definition of "source music" and mine aren't the same. Frankly, I was not even familiar with the phrase until I bought that elaborate 2-CD set from here of the complete "Body Heat" including tons of tracks NOT written by John Barry that are identified on the CDs and case AND GraceNotes as "source music," such as the wonderful "That Old Feeling" (that compelled me to buy the set in the first place). I just pulled out my CD of the "Two For The Road" soundtrack, RCA/BMG #74321629972, and if "source music" is defined as material added BEYOND the original composer's contributions, I couldn't find a single bit of it. On the contrary, there are 12 tracks, all composed by Henry Mancini, for a total of 32:03 and nothing by anyone else, unless we count Leslie Bricusse's lyrics for the song heard on one of the tracks. Of course there's far more than 32.03 minutes of music in the movie "Two For The Road," but I still love the 12 tracks they gave us, and, as I recall, when this one came out it was priced quite high (about $25) for a soundtrack at the time, which was $2 a minute! Well, in the case of the elaborate "Body Heat" with all the "source music," I paid about $10 a minute (for "That Old Feeling"). Blame it on inflation.
Note: My conception of what constitutes "source music" will later be corrected below.
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I've long searched for John Addison's music for "Centennial," the mini-series from the 1970s based on James Michener's mammoth novel. I noticed that someone here has already included it among a long list of other films he seeks, but I wanted to single it out. I see that there's a compilation of themes by John Addison (Chandos Movies CHAN10418) with one "Centennial" cue just over 4 minutes, but I'd sure like to find more music than that out of more than 12 hours of program.
That said, a few years ago I decided to watch the entire mini-series with the DVDs, and found that the music wasn't quite as wonderful as I had remembered, so maybe that single cue in the Addison compilation will be enough for me!
Incidentally, it was the DVDs from Netflix I watched, and I felt they had done a bad job of mastering the original tapes. So I'm curious about a follow-up release coming out in October 2013 and will be curious if they've improved on the initial DVD release, Maybe those will be Blu-rays, which I'll consider, since "Centennial" was such a monumental achievement.
So does anyone remember "Centennial"? I was knocked out when I first saw it broadcast on TV, and in the early episodes, they repeatedly brought me to tears. All the acting was good to excellent, and I'd like to single out Lynn Redgrave, who plays this young heiress from England coming to see the great Colorado ranch her uncle, I think, has bought, and becomes the matriarch of the family that owns it. Her acting is truly magnificent and should never be forgotten.
But I seem to be straying from John Addison's soundtrack....
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joan hue: Yes indeed! I followed the link to the thread and read what people were thinking as they looked forward to the release of the "Centennial" DVDs in 2008. So I resurrected that thread and mentioned that I had been very disappointed by the quality of those DVDs and curious about a new release of it very soon -- October 8th, DVDs. Thanks for the link -- that one slipped past me!!
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Ron, as Peter seems to be absent, allow me to step in like an annoying smart-ass and comment on your TWO FOR THE ROAD source music perception.
"Source music" doesn't have to be an already-existing piece by another composer tacked onto the soundtrack. So, Mancini-written music for what's on the car radio, or for people having cocktails at parties, is source music, just as it would be source music if they were using another composer's pieces. People with big brains use the term "diegetic" for what I call "car radio" tracks.
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Graham: Thanks for the clarification, that the film's composer can write "source music" too. The next time I watch my copy of "Two For The Road" I'll have to keep an ear out for any disparate Mancini SCORE cues (and NOT source music) NOT on the original soundtrack, which is itself quite slim.
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Ron, as Peter seems to be absent, allow me to step in like an annoying smart-ass and comment on your TWO FOR THE ROAD source music perception.
"Source music" doesn't have to be an already-existing piece by another composer tacked onto the soundtrack. So, Mancini-written music for what's on the car radio, or for people having cocktails at parties, is source music, just as it would be source music if they were using another composer's pieces. People with big brains use the term "diegetic" for what I call "car radio" tracks.
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Thanks for that Graham. I also think that there are one or two tracks on the album that were not in the film. For me, this is a superb score. A pity to not have a complete film tracks version.
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Re: "Two For The Road"
Plus let's not forget that it was a pretty amazing movie, not the least the great chemistry between the transcendent Aundrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. And it has some very funny moments, particularly those provided by William Daniels and Eleanor Bron! I'm going to pull out my DVD of it and make a point to watch it again in the next couple of days.
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Plus let's not forget that it was a pretty amazing movie, not the least the great chemistry between the transcendent Aundrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. And it has some very funny moments, particularly those provided by William Daniels and Eleanor Bron! I'm going to pull out my DVD of it and make it a point to watch it in the next couple of days.
Two For The Road is an excellent movie.One of my favourites!
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I've posted it elsewhere, probably not here:
The Tamarind Seed by John Barry
Have had enough of the nearly 10 minute medley they put together of themes from that movie -- we need a full soundtrack!!!!!!!
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Still hoping for John Barry's "The Tamarind Seed." Have the nearly 10-minute suite found on disc 1 of the 2 disc set "Zulu" of Barry themes.
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HAWAII FIVE-0 Compilation
THE SALAMANDER (Film tracks)
RAISE THE TITANIC (Film tracks)
THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER
THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD
EL CID (Complete film tracks)
SCOTT
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