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Jul 25, 2014 - 4:24 PM
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.....Hugo Friedhofer's scores for NO MAN OF HER OWN
THUNDER IN THE EAST
ACE IN THE HOLE
This is what I'd like to witness, too!
A Hugo Friedhofer @ Paramount disc......
Plus the Friedhofer score for the otherwise unmentioned Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston 1947 film, WILD HARVEST, directed by Tay Garnett. I've heard that the score is quite good (I suppose considering that it's just one year away from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES) though I've never seen the film.
It might also be interesting to hear Hugo's underscore for the Bing Crosby-Jane Wyman-Ethel Barrymore film, JUST FOR YOU. (The songs, of course, would likely be tied up because of the Crosby-Decca contract, but the score itself might be releasable.)
Has anyone (yet) ever officially released the complete soundtrack underscore alone for any Golden Age musical??? Seems like a new avenue for Soundtrack CD score releases.
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.....Hugo Friedhofer's scores for NO MAN OF HER OWN
THUNDER IN THE EAST
ACE IN THE HOLE
This is what I'd like to witness, too!
A Hugo Friedhofer @ Paramount disc......
Plus the Friedhofer score for the otherwise unmentioned Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston 1947 film, WILD HARVEST, directed by Tay Garnett. I've heard that the score is quite good (I suppose considering that it's just one year away from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES) though I've never seen the film.
It might also be interesting to hear Hugo's underscore for the Bing Crosby-Jane Wyman-Ethel Barrymore film, JUST FOR YOU. (The songs, of course, would likely be tied up because of the Crosby-Decca contract, but the score itself might be releasable.)
Has anyone (yet) ever officially released the complete soundtrack underscore alone for any Golden Age musical??? Seems like a new avenue for Soundtrack CD score releases.
Well, you know the answer to that question - we just did.
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Jul 25, 2014 - 5:02 PM
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manderley
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.....Hugo Friedhofer's scores for NO MAN OF HER OWN
THUNDER IN THE EAST
ACE IN THE HOLE
This is what I'd like to witness, too!
A Hugo Friedhofer @ Paramount disc......
Plus the Friedhofer score for the otherwise unmentioned Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston 1947 film, WILD HARVEST, directed by Tay Garnett. I've heard that the score is quite good (I suppose considering that it's just one year away from THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES) though I've never seen the film.
It might also be interesting to hear Hugo's underscore for the Bing Crosby-Jane Wyman-Ethel Barrymore film, JUST FOR YOU. (The songs, of course, would likely be tied up because of the Crosby-Decca contract, but the score itself might be releasable.)
Has anyone (yet) ever officially released the complete soundtrack underscore alone for any Golden Age musical??? Seems like a new avenue for Soundtrack CD score releases.
Well, you know the answer to that question - we just did.
Of course you did. As did most of George Feltenstein's MGM Rhino discs, etc.
Obviously I didn't ask the question correctly, though I thought saying "alone" would suffice.
And I certainly didn't want to reference CENTENNIAL SUMMER which, from the sound clips, appears to be breathtaking.
What I'm suggesting is that where the soundtrack songs are A PROBLEM (Sinatra, Crosby, etc)
because the artists are tied to contracts with other companies, would it be possible to release, for example, the underscore (MINUS the vocal sections with their orchestral beds) for JUST FOR YOU, HERE COMES THE GROOM, ANYTHING GOES (1956), WITH A SONG IN MY HEART, THE STUDENT PRINCE, etc. etc......? Good TCF examples reflecting this problem (and possible solution) would be SAY ONE FOR ME, APRIL LOVE, CALL ME MADAM, etc.
In other words, the score runs through the main title to the first song---the song vocal and orchestral background for the song is dropped---the score cues continue to the next song---the next song vocal and orchestral background are dropped---and the score cues continue in this way to the end of the film. Thus the whole CD release for the given musical is orchestral only---but the actual vocal songs and their individual underscore is missing.
This would be a sad reflection on each score as a musical entity, but at least it would get the score---in excellent quality---out there and those of us who might want to hear the score alone could do so but those of us who are enterprising could also reassemble a pretty good musical CD for ourselves without dialog overlays and picking up the vocalized songs from a video.
As time goes on this seems the only way we're going to get even a piece of the vast majority of the musicals we'd like.
The CENTENNIAL SUMMER thread saddens me greatly because it's obvious that a number of people---even some who I'm really surprised about---are buying the CD only for Alfred Newman's scoring---not the vocalized songs. (It's also somewhat weird because quite a lot of the underscore is based ON the Kern songs---a procedure Newman often followed in doing his orchestral underscore sequences for musicals---extrapolating the song melodies and interpolating them into his own scoring. He was a master at this. One example which is really exceptional in this is his work on THAT LADY IN ERMINE, a so-so film but one which is enveloped by Newman's gorgeous underscore.)
Oh, well. A voice crying in the wilderness, I know....... 
But....thanks for CENTENNIAL SUMMER!.....and now we return to COMPOSERS AT PARAMOUNT.
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The Atomic City was released by Kritzerland
Lukas
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Those are all excellent suggestions, ToneRow. The Leith Stevens is particularly exciting...
Yavar
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