I hope that Intrada eventually gets to releasing some of Fielding's McMillan & Wife scores. Universal should have tapes for those, but it's good to see that the BYU archives could provide a decent backup solution.
Another Peckinpah-Fielding collaboration is there, the recordings for Junior Bonner. Also the cue titles can be seen in the list.
¶ From the Brigham Young University
¶ There are 26 cues for Jerry Fielding's Junior Bonner, by the way.
106 5 Junior Bonner, manila folders containing instrumental parts, original and photocopy, 12x9 inch, to the following cues
There are also cue titles for Junior Bonner. I suppose the arrangement of the main title song "Arizona Morning" is by Fielding, it has his string writing (especially at 1:14 in the YouTube clip). The most beautiful cue in the list below has the title "Stair Scene".
Jr. Bonner "Origs scores + sketches" on large brown folder.
Original scores and sketches on 14x17 sheets:
1. I-M-I "Main Title Part I, 5 pp. 2. I-M-2 "Bound to Be Back Again," 7 pp. 3. I-M-2X "Ariz. Morn.," 5 pp. 4. 4-M-1 "Elvira's Kitchen Part Two," 4 pp. 5. 4-M-2 "Reata Rancheros - Jingle," 2 pp. 6. 4-M-3 "After Dinner-On the Porch, 7 pp. 7. 5-M-2 "Stars and Stripes," 2 pp. 8. 5M2B (Drums Only)/5M2B1 (Drums & Bugles), 3 pp. 9. 5-M-2S "Stars and Stripes Sweetener," 1 p. 10. 6M1B "Air Corps," 1 p. 11. 7-M-1 "Thunderer"/7-M-2 "Star Spangled Banner," 1 p. 12. 7-M-3 "1st Bronc," 3 pp. 13. 7-M-3-A "Junior's Bronco," 2 pp. 14. 7-M-4 "Steer Wrestling," 5 pp. 15. 7-M-4B "Terwilliger's Steer," 1 p. 16. 7-M-4A "Junior's Steer," 3 pp. 17. 7-5/8-1 "Wild Cow Milkin," 6 pp. 18. 8-M-2 "Jukebox Source," 4 pp. 19. 8=M-4 "Seven Rings of Silver," 6 pp. 20. 9-M-4 "Palace Bar Juke Source to Stair Scene," 7 pp. 21. 10-M-1A "Jr's Bull," 2 pp. 22. 10-M-1A "Jr's Bull," 2 pp. 23. 10-M-2 "Finale," 3 pp. 24. 10-M-2A "Rodeo," 1 p. 25. 10-M-2A "Rodeo Man," 4 pp. 26. 10-M-2/10-M-2A, 3 pp.
Original scores and sketches on 15 1/2x11 sheets:
27. I-M-I "Main Title Part I," 16 pp. 28. I-M-2 "Bound to Be Back Again," 24 pp. 29. I-M-2X "Arizona Morning," 19 pp. 30. I-M-3A/2-M-1A "Steer Jazz," 3 pp. 31. 3-M-2 "Rodeo Man," 11 pp. 32. 3M3 (also 1M3/2M1) "Homer's Tune," 9 pp. 33. 3-M-4 "Elvira's Kitchen," on 14x11 sheets, 8 pp. 34. 4-M-1 "Elvira's Kitchen Part Two," 12 pp. 35. 4-M-3 "After Dinner-On the Porch," 22 pp. 36. 7-M-3 "1st Bronc," 13 pp. 37. 7-M-3A "Junior's Bronco," 5 pp. 38. 7-M-4 "Steer Wrestling," 16 pp. 39. 7-M-4A "Junior's Steer," 12 pp. 40. 7-M-4B "Terwilliger's Steer," 4 pp. 41. 7-5/8-1 "Wild Cow Milkin'," 22 pp. 42. 8-M-5 "Rodeo Man," on 14x11 sheets, 13 pp. 43. 9-M-1 "Day I Started Loving You Again," on 14x11 sheets, 4 pp. 44. 9-M-2 "Palace Source," on 14x11 sheets, 11 pp. 45. 9-M-3 "Star Spangled Banner," 4 pp. 46. 9-M-4 "Palace Juke Source to Stair Scene," 25 pp.
ABOUT NOON WINE It's a minor mild pastoral Americana score that integrates many 'discreet' punctuations and devises used in later scores of the composer. You find a bucolic use of harmonica in the main titles opening along with the piano conclusion/coda. The stranger character plays sad tunes with his harmonica just like the melancholic mood in The Wild Bunch. I call this score the sad side of the future Wild Bunch and the first season of Mannix—anyway, the full Desilu sound is present. A piano punctuation is heard later on Mannix, Hawkins, The Bionic Woman pilot.
¶ Scenes with music to double-check: The opening titles* The many farm labors of the stranger* The farm labors of the two kids The kid goes apologizing to the stranger The stranger keeps on the hard labor at the farm* The murder of the lawman with an axe The running away of the stranger* (timpani, organ, harmonica, brass) The exit of the courthouse of the Thompson's family The traveling to the neighbors of the Thompson's* The difficult and guilty sleep of Mr. Thompson* (snare drum and else) The departure of Mr. Thompson from his wife's bedroom The end titles
* includes dissolves.
¶ The story itself combines elements from The Wild Bunch (the little kids watching grown-ups, the iron mechanic of justice), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (rural Jason Robards) and Straw Dogs (the weird and muted stranger). It plays like a downbeat The Little House on the Prairie.
Thanks for the nice report. I just watched Noon Wine for the first time. I'm a little bit surprised that there are not more direct hints to other scores by Fielding in this music. It's of course a wonderful composition. The only chance for a release might be a rerecording.
Noon Wine was a surprise release on blu-ray and is a gem but it is indeed all too quiet on the Fielding front in 2014.
I hope that Intrada eventually gets to releasing some of Fielding's McMillan & Wife scores. Universal should have tapes for those, but it's good to see that the BYU archives could provide a decent backup solution.
A few of Fielding's McMillan & Wife scores contain re-arranged versions of some of his film work, like The Mechanic--the "Suicide" cue being one example. There's also reuse of his main title for Hunters are for Killing/The Big Sleep. Even that work is startling good and fresh, considering he's borrowing from himself (as well as sending himself to an early grave through overwork).
2014 was a weak year for the Silver Age overall. Especially for the great period of 1965-75.
2014 was far from a total bust in my mind. I've been enjoying the heck out of Intrada's two Kaplan releases, Flint albums, See No Evil and Legrand offerings. That's not even mentioning the great stuff of a slightly earlier vintage, such as the Bernstein Ava recordings and The Young Savages. Kritzerland delivered some fantastic Silver Age albums as well.
2014 was far from a total bust in my mind. I've been enjoying the heck out of Intrada's two Kaplan releases, Flint albums, See No Evil and Legrand offerings. That's not even mentioning the great stuff of a slightly earlier vintage, such as the Bernstein Ava recordings and The Young Savages. Kritzerland delivered some fantastic Silver Age albums as well.!´
I see your point here and you are right. Silver Age was not underrepresented on disc in 2014. But I see the 1965-76 "vintage" period a little different. For me it's the modernistic - avantgardistic - jazzy - funky stuff. Composers like Fielding, Schifrin, Mellé, Ellis, Goldenberg, Nelson, Glass, Sauter, Prince, Carter, Drasnin or Golson come to mind. There are of course not many film scores left to release but tons of scores to TV episode scores and TV movies. In the discography of Ellis is essentially one score missing, his psychedelic score for the Mission: Impossible episode "A Cube of Sugar".
There's only one I want really, that's, The Outlaw Josey Wales.
I still think this one is a candidate for Intrada. Is there still hope for 2014 or should we retire this thread and open a new one in Jan 15 with the good news of Quartet?
