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I was just listening to this the other day in the car and am prompted to once again acknowledge Lukas' courage in investing the time and money to preserve this quite special score from a composer who might have given films many other scores as fine as this had his life not been cut so tragically short.
It's manna from heaven in these melody-starved times. For those of you who might have held out on taking the plunge, add it to your next order from SAE. You won't regret it.
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I do really like this score. It took me some time to get into it, but it really started to pay back dividends on the third listen, and by the fifth, it was one of my preferred FSM releases.
Must get DARK OF THE SUN as well. That one also looks interesting.
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May 13, 2009 - 5:17 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Lester Sullivan wrote:
McFarland also served as conductor and arranger on the Ossie Davis, Stephen Boyd, and Dionne Warwick stinker “Slaves” (1969), with the actual composition being handled by Bobby Scott, famous for writing “A Taste of Honey,” and Bob Kessler. This was originally released on LP by McFarland’s own short-lived Skye label. In a few shots, he looks a little like Lalo Schifrin did then, and, like Schifrin at the time, was active in bossa nova, in which McFarland also worked with Stan Getz (the album “Big Band Bossa Nova”), Tom Jobim, Gabor Szabo, and Cal Tjader.
Here's that LP:
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I skimmed the film yesterday to hear the score, since I've never heard anything by the composer before.
Quite recommended. I'm glad FSM released it.
According to IMDb he only did two film scores. I assume that's it (unless there are titles missing from his IMDb credits).
I checked out the other score he did, "Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?", and while there's nothing inherently wrong with the score, it's just not up to the same level of EotD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEVED1Jq9g
I like the cue around 1:03:00 in.
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