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I was sitting in my room on a Sunday evening in 1968, with my Grundig TK145 tape recorder plugged into my radio, recording a weekly film music program, I think it was called "Music from the Movies, but I'm not sure. It hadn't been the most interesting program and I was thinking about switching off for the evening when the presenter said this,"Not so long ago a western from Italy was definitely something new, but now there's a regular flow of them off the assembly lines. The only ones to make any real impression however are the one's that feature the Man With No Name in his quest for A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. Now there's a third movie about his adventures, there's no mention of dollars this time, at least not in the title, this one's called The Good, the Bad and The Ugly.
He then played the iconic theme, I just couldn't believe what I was listening to, I'd never heard anything like it and I was hooked. By the end of 1969 I had managed to purchase Morricone's, "Love Circle, The Sicilian Clan, The Big Gundown, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars". His recordings were very difficult to find back in the 60's in the UK.
I still listen to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly nearly every day and consider it one of the finest film themes ever written.
Now a question, on the night in question (1969) the presenter played the original FILM version, complete with the opening trills, crys etc that come in before the drum beat, and the track finished with the high pitched trill that we hear whenever "The Good" is on the screen. Since 1969 I have bought (this is sad really) every release of the score I could find, Italian, French, American, German etc, but I've never been able to find a version with the film version of the theme on.
So my question, was he playing a promo that was sent round the radio stations, that never got released generally or what? There were no sound effects on the music so it wasn't lifted direct from the film, I've looked for this recording
since 1969, does anyone know if it's ever been made available anywhere?
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Nevv ahh herdovit!!!
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"...with my Grundig TK145 tape recorder plugged into my radio, recording..."
- do you still have the tape? Enquiring minds want to know.
Sorry no, I'm afraid I wore it out before I bought the soundtrack. I was so enchanted by the music I just couldn't stop listening to it and the tape eventually gave up the ghost.
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Jul 28, 2016 - 11:37 AM
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MusicMad
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I think my introduction to the Maestro's music was, as with many others, via Geoff Love ... but, despite producing superb easy-listening albums, his take on this iconic theme leaves a lot to be desired - Great Western Movie Themes 
But I lie: it was, of course, the hit single by Hugo Montenegro which my father borrowed (we weren't that rich ) and I played several times ... My first true EM sound was, I think, a radio broadcast from a weekly BBC Radio 2 programme of film music, probably around 1972, of the truly iconic theme from Cera, una volta il west (not that I knew it under that title then!) ... so good that I bought the LP a little while later.
As for Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, (1966) ... I suppose my first original recording version was on the Sunset compilation LP Western Themes - Italian Style and I've since purchased numerous compilations with this track ... along with two releases of the score.
And today: yes, I like the track, I like the score (I owned a book dedicated to the score which I sold as I couldn't see me reading it a second time) ... but I can't place the score in my top 30 EM scores and there is so much more music I want to hear that I'm afraid this iconic theme is no longer the pull it was ... 40 years ago.
Mitch
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"...with my Grundig TK145 tape recorder plugged into my radio, recording..."
- do you still have the tape? Enquiring minds want to know.
Sorry no, I'm afraid I wore it out before I bought the soundtrack. I was so enchanted by the music I just couldn't stop listening to it and the tape eventually gave up the ghost.
WHAT RADIO STATION DID YOU HEAR THE FILM VERSION OF GBU
I honestly can't remember, but, I think it was Radio 1/2, I know it was Sunday around 8:15pm and it was called Music from the Movies. But after that memory fails me.
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There are two kinds of people in this world Mitch, those with loaded guns...and those who cant dig Gbu like they should.."
Trust me, if it was hard to get or had never had a release, hundreds of people on here would be saying it waz ennios best score ever!!
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It was many moons ago(circa 1977) that i first heard Chi Mai(disco version) on the radio. Many years have gone by and EM's music continues to accompany us on our journey. Still amazed at the sense of melody, the endless diversity the orchestrations, the magic... So glad i was listening to the radio that day many moons ago...
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Jul 29, 2016 - 7:03 AM
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Rameau
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Ha, what a small(ish) world! I had a Grundig tape recorder in the sixties (& it weighed a ton!), my parents got it in the early sixties, I'm going to have to ask my mum about this, as they didn't have two pennies to rub together then, so I can't see them buying a tape recorder (maybe they were given it). Anyway, they used it about twice then lost interest, I took it over & used to record programs off the radio (& I still do! But I use my Virgin Tivo these days). In the sixties there used to be a great film music program on the radio hosted by Desmond Carrington, I can't remember what it was called, but I loved it (& can still remember the catchy theme tune). Of course in the mid-sixties there were tons of great soundtracks being released on LP, so there was no shortage of stuff to play, album tracks, songs from older films (like the Road To movies) & they'd have one soundtrack where they would edit together a load of cues for one suite, three I can remember, The Way West, The Professionals & Grand Prix...& on that program was the first time I heard A Fistful Of Dollars (& saw the film a couple of weeks later). Up to about 20 years ago I still had a reel of tape with a few programs on it, but it ended up in the tip, as I didn't have a machine to play it on.
Edit, found it! Music From The Movies 4.30 pm on the Light program (as you can probably tell, I'm not really doing much of anything today).
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/light/1966-06-04
(for the brits.) If you're interested in what was on the BBC TV & radio from the fifties onwards, this site is a treasure trove.
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/
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There was A BBC radio show in the 70's Early 80's called Star Sound which ran Mondays and Thursdays at 10pm. They often played film music lifted directly from the soundtrack a lot of which had no commercial release
used to tape this show a lot. Got a load of unreleased goldsmith that way - last hard men, for instance. They played a lot of goodwin, Bernstein, schifrin etc.
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I remember recording the theme from "The Long Days Dying" from that program, Ican't remember who the composer was, but the music was pretty impressive.
It was also the first place I heard Face to Face, now that was something completely different
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