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Feb 14, 2015 - 9:10 PM
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manderley
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With only 40+ viewers of this thread, and no posters at all, I'm surprised there are not more people interested in this CD---although from the music clips it certainly appears to be lacking in angst, brass, dark shadings, and thumping percussion rhythms that many are now searching for! 
I hope you are not mis-selling it by your description, Stefan, and throwing in the names of Steiner and Newman are not particularly good recommendations for many of the audience around here.
So, when I listened to the clips, which are charming, I thought that it owed far more to Victor Young---particularly his THREE COINS and SEPTEMBER AFFAIR (with a dash of Rota thrown in, too)---than it did to Max Steiner and Alfred Newman.
And since this board has proven that there are still Victor Young fans around with some money to spend, I hope that they will listen to the clips and consider MONTECARLO a viable purchase, as I will.
I have a DVDr of THE MONTE CARLO STORY (which occasionally runs on TCM) so I'm going to watch that and see how the score fits the film. I imagine it's some sort of a rollicking romantic comedy starring several screen legends rather than a film noir, a comic book epic, or a CGI festival---so I'm not apt to be too disappointed!
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Yes, Manderley, of course you are totally right in mentioning Victor Young's THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN. In the description above I should have also thrown in his name just in the way I did it here a few weeks ago:
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=1&threadID=103970&archive=0
"The MONTE CARLO STORY score is not at all jazzy in the way Savina's IL MORALISTA or Piccioni's I MAGLIARI are. There may be one or two tracks in the source music section at the end of the CD which go into that direction, but the actual orchestral score by Rossellini (about 40 minutes) is in an old-fashioned symphonic style. It has therefore much more similarity with something like Victor Young's THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN or Alfred Newman's A CERTAIN SMILE. So it's not really a comedy score with contemporary jazzy/bluesy music, but much more a very romantic one with a lot of Mediterranean feeling typical of that era of the mid-50s.
In my opinion, it should therefore attract above all those collectors who like the Young or Newman scores."
Although I must say that for example in the spirited march tune in track 9 of the MONTE CARLO CD I am also reminded a bit of Steiner's style. Certainly no coincidence because the scene deals with the sightseeing tour of the American tourists (Arthur O'Connell and Natalie Trundy) around Monte Carlo and therefore the music also assumes a typical Steiner flavour we know from his US scores.
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Feb 15, 2015 - 6:27 AM
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Ag^Janus
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With only 40+ viewers of this thread, and no posters at all, I'm surprised there are not more people interested in this CD---although from the music clips it certainly appears to be lacking in angst, brass, dark shadings, and thumping percussion rhythms that many are now searching for!
Indeed Manderlay. No dark alley back stabbing to be found here. I read the words "lovely" theme/melody and "romantic", as in a couple romance, then take a step back. I'm into serious music.
Where are the words, acrimony or treachery? I find those tend to attract me.
In ernest, I appreciate the exposure to these scores.
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THE MONTE CARLO STORY also had a third song, "Vogliamoci tanto bene," with words and music by Renato Rascel. Italian film star Rascel also appeared in the film, which was his first American-produced picture. I'm guessing that he sang the song in the film as well.
No, Rascel doesn't sing the song - which had already been popular a few months before the film was made - in the film itself. At least not in the US and German versions which are the ones I know. Rascel is only an actor in THE MONTE CARLO STORY and he doesn't sing there - he plays the funny pawnbroker who all the time wants his money back from Marlene Dietrich.
"Vogliamoci tanto bene" only crops up in a short instrumental version in the film and can therefore be heard as part of track 4 ("Walking Along the Harbor") on the CD.
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