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Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere CD release:
JULES VERNE’S ROCKET TO THE MOON
Composed and Conducted by John Scott
The 1960s brought us a whole slew of period comedy adventure films like The Great Race, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, and Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies – movies with all-star casts, lots of slapstick comedy, and filled with all manner of heroes, villains, and eccentric characters. Two years after Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines had its successful run, Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon hit movie screens in the UK. This time the all-star cast included Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe, Hermione Gingold, and Lionel Jeffries. The film is handsomely photographed in scope and color, and has a lot of top-notch production values. And it’s graced with a truly wonderful and tuneful score by John Scott (billed as Patrick John Scott).
By the time of Rocket to the Moon, the word-of-mouth on John Scott’s film scoring abilities was spreading, and director Don Sharp hired him to do the score – that began a fruitful director/composer relationship that continued for several years. For Rocket to the Moon, Scott came up with a tuneful, eclectic, and wonderful score – the main theme is so infectiously melodic that it’s hard to get it out of your head once you’ve heard it.
Rocket to the Moon was released on LP in the UK – this is its CD debut. John Scott’s music has delighted and touched audiences all over the world, and it’s enlivened and enhanced a whole slew of movies, including Antony and Cleopatra, England Made Me, Billy Two Hats, a whole series of Jacques Cousteau specials, North Dallas Forty, The Final Countdown, Where Eagles Fly, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Harem, The Shooting Party, King Kong Lives, Man on Fire, Black Rainbow, Shoot to Kill, Becoming Collette, The Whistle Blower, and many, many others. No matter what the genre, his scores are filled with wonderful themes, running the gamut from drama to comedy to romance, to adventure, thrills, and suspense, or whatever else the films might have called for.
Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon is limited to 1000 copies only and is priced at $19.98, plus shipping.
CDs will ship by the second week of May, but we’ve actually been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
ATTENTION INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTORS: FOR THIS RELEASE - IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO RECEIVE THIS CD YOU NEED TO OPT-OUT BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL OPTING OUT PRIOR TO THE DATE IT SHIPS - SEND TO kritzerland@gmail.com. IF YOU DO WISH TO RECEIVE IT, YOU DON"T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. IF YOU ARE NOT AN INDIEGOGO CONTRIBUTOR, ORDER AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD. THANK YOU.
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Mar 29, 2017 - 3:27 AM
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Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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This is a good one to end my Indiegogo subscription on.
As mentioned in the liner notes, "For it’s U.S. release, the film was retitled Those Fantastic Flying Fools to make it sound more like the other films of its ilk."
As also mentioned in the liner notes, the film changed titles in the U.S. in a failed attempt to squeeze out some additional box office.
Various sources indicate that Ron Goodwin composed a song for the film, "We Must Always Trust the Stranger," which does not seem to appear on the soundtrack LP. (This song may be one reason why people tend to think that Ron Goodwin composed the score to this film, as he did with THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN.. and THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN... .) The song was supposedly sung by both singer-songwriter Mike Clifford and by actors Vernon Hayden, Tom Irwin, Ronnie Walsh and Terry-Thomas.
There was a promotional single on the Sidewalk label (#923) with the "Theme From Those Fantastic Flying Fools (Vocal)" by Mike Clifford on the "A" side. The single attributes the song to "Scott - Hemric - Styner." Based on that attribution, it appears as if the vocal is not Goodwin's song. I'm guessing that the "Hemric" is Guy Hemric, who in 1963, joined the staff of American International Pictures, where he wrote lyrics for songs in the beach movies that starred Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, and others. And the "Styner" is most likely Jerry Styner, who composed music for such AIP films as THE SAVAGE SEVEN and THE CYCLE SAVAGES. It would seem as if Hemric and Styner took a theme by Scott and added lyrics of their own to it to create a promotional single.
On the "B" side of the promotional 45 is a track identified as the "Theme From Those Fantastic Flying Fools (Instr)." Oddly, this instrumental is also supposedly "sung" by Mike Clifford, as his name appears the same on both sides. Other sources, however, say that the instrumental is performed by the "Sidewalk Sounds." The composer is listed as "P. Scott."
It does not seem as if Goodwin's song made an appearance outside of the film.
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Great release! I'll be ordering this one! Well done Bruce.
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Ordered ! More John Scott please.
And more Steiner...hey where's PFK? Is he not going to order this fabulous John Scott release at all?
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The music samples...and the cool artwork....were enough to convince me!
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Agreed on both counts!
I'm guessing Mr. Scott didn't have any additional elements for this score beyond the LP program, since Bruce spoke to him recently. Regardless it is great that this score is getting an official CD premiere!
Yavar
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Agreed on both counts!
I'm guessing Mr. Scott didn't have any additional elements for this score beyond the LP program, since Bruce spoke to him recently. Regardless it is great that this score is getting an official CD premiere!
Yavar
That is correct. We've actually been talking about this score for a couple of years now.
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So just to be clear....since it doesn't seem to say anywhere about sources or whatever....is the sound quality consistent throughout the CD?
You have six sound samples of good length. Why would you even ask such a question? Of course the sound quality is consistent - did you think all the other tracks would sound like crap? 
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