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Nov 30, 2015 - 12:39 PM
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leslie
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Some Goldsmith admirers who do not have access to the appropriate box set might not realise that the two excellent scores which the composer provided for Season 4 of Have Gun Will Travel are available on You Tube , both with reasonable visual and sonic quality.
The more appealing melodically is the score for the third episode of the season, "A Head of Hair,"ably directed by Western movie director, Andrew V McLaglan.The episode is a take on "The Searchers" and has a nicely nuanced performance from Ben Johnson.
The score is very much in the vein of Goldsmith's sixties Western work and is very reminiscent of his scores for " The Loner, " with excellent scoring for brass.
The first segment of the season is "The Fatalist," directed by the late Buzz Kulik and featuring Martin Gabel and Robert Blake. The dramatic requirements of the script demand a more austere score with a harsher and less lyrical tone, apart from brief opening and closing cues. Again excellent use is made of brass , bolstered by the deeper strings. The music appears to take its cue from the fatalistic theme of the script and the the relentless strumming of the guitar reinforces the portentous quality of the music in one or two cues.
As always, with his television work and despite budgetary constraints, Goldsmith manages to make the score sound grander in scale than it probably is.
Both episodes are well worth seeking out
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I've posted before that "A Head of Hair", in my opinion, is the best score he did to an episode of a TV series that I have seen or heard so far.
People keep talking and talking about how there's not much left with each expanded and complete release, but they keep forgetting that's his film work and that the majority of his TV work, unsold/unaired pilots, singular series efforts, and episodes for series, are still unreleased. Not to mention his radio program scoring efforts. And there's that un-named [children's?] audio book he scored early in his career.
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Nov 30, 2015 - 2:00 PM
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mgh
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I've posted before that "A Head of Hair", in my opinion, is the best score he did to an episode of a TV series that I have seen or heard so far.
People keep talking and talking about how there's not much left with each expanded and complete release, but they keep forgetting that's his film work and that the majority of his TV work, unsold/unaired pilots, singular series efforts, and episodes for series, are still unreleased. Not to mention his radio program scoring efforts. And there's that un-named [children's?] audio book he scored early in his career.
If you get a chance, catch "Incident in the Middle of Nowhere" from Rawhide. Excellent score, much in the vein of Rio Conchos.
He also did six episodes of Gunsmoke.
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If you get a chance, catch "Incident in the Middle of Nowhere" from Rawhide. Excellent score, much in the vein of Rio Conchos.
He also did six episodes of Gunsmoke.
I've heard all of them. :-)
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It's actually "Hostage!" with an exclamation mark. There was also an episode titled "Hostage" from another season. I don't think there's anything remarkable about the score.
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Yeah, I did a lot of the Goldsmith TV suites. I just don't want to cause a stir and link to them unless David says otherwise.
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TV westerns on CBS were so chocked fill of library scores (mostly Herrmann) in those days.
My ears always pRick up when something ORIGINAL comes on -..."is that Jerry?!"
best wESTERN SERIES EVER!!!!!
BRM
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Unfortunately, Joan, I think there's a decent chance that a lot of the TV work is lost. At least we know that's the case for The Waltons, where only the pilot film The Homecoming survived. Assuming the TV scores didn't survive, this was why I made the suggestion once or twice that Goldsmith's TV western episode scores might be considered for a fresh Tadlow recording, to fill out a disc with a feature score. Since the orchestras were smaller they should be less expensive to record.
Rather than Black Patch and Face of a Fugitive together on one CD, imagine a CD with Black Patch filled out with the Rawhide and HGWT scores (they are also briefer than feature scores), and another CD with Face of a Fugitive filled out with other Goldsmith TV western scores which otherwise probably don't survive...Well, that's what I'm imagining anyway. I'd be perfectly happy if I was wrong and there was a music-only source for Jerry's original recordings on these.
Yavar
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Joan, do you mean you could be wrong and in fact you DO know why those would be against the rules? Just kidding, just kidding. 
Thanks to all, especially Leslie and Justin, for posting about these. I was not aware of some of this, will have to hunt for those links myself, and hope for the day they might come into existence in some form.
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