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Maybe 9-5. Like many Bernstein 'comedy' scores, there is a lot of fairly dramatic music. He scores it stright up to bring out all of the emotions of the moivie. His interpolations of Parton's theme song are also lovely.
I met him professionally a couple of years ago and found him to be terribly talented and a real gentleman.
The theme song to Wonder Woman may not be a well-aged bleu, but I like it.
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9 to 5, though I haven't heard A LOT of his music, 9 to 5 is actually one of my all time favorites in general.
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For me it would be Strange Brew. Unfortunately, it hasn't been released to this point. Hopefully someone will release it someday and what a fun score to a very funny movie. Great stuff.
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I've always loved the music of Charles Fox. Instantly recognizable bouncy, melodic stuff which lent itself well to songs ("Killing Me Softly..." is SO Charles Fox!). I think I first woke up to him in the mid 1970s with his themes for PUFNSTUF, LOVE AMERICAN STYLE, THE LOVE BOAT, WONDER WOMAN and stuff like that.
I also have ONE ON ONE, zooba, and like it a great deal. Very catchy, song-based score. Leaning into more "conventinal" scoring, A WINDOW TO THE SKY (or THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN) is melodic and really nice. I have good memories too of GOODBYE COLUMBUS, which has some typically Foxy brass/horns/trumpet runs(?), again almost is if it were the instrumental version of a song.
Yes, so his "lighter" side is the most well-known, but I think he's also a fine dramatic composer. As some of you already pointed out, those tongue-in-cheek comedy-thrillers were taken fairly straight by the composer, but I also recall good dramatic stuff for VICTORY AT ENTEBBE (great End Titles) and other things I'm forgetting at the moment. And he could even be wildly experimental, such as in his atonal electronic warblings for BUG (fire-starting cockroaches). Anyone know what his score for THE GREEN SLIME is like? That side of him is fascinating.
But, of course, come on boys and girls - THE best Charles Fox score ever, and one of the most enjoyable musical journeys in existence is BARBARELLA! Bring on, and out, a decent release of this splendid Psychedella-BarBarbarella orgiastic pot-filled funfest! One question about Barbarella - I've seen a version of the film with the music credited to Michel Magne, although it had the same score we all know and love. In fact, on the IMDB, Charles Fox is only credited as having minimal involvement. Surely that can't be right?
And another thing, while I'm on a rant. Does anyone think that the (slightly more obscure) scores of Artie Butler sound so much like Charles Fox that they could almost be Charles Fox?
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Hmm, the IMDB has this credit for THE GREEN SLIME - "Music by Charles Fox and Toshiaki Tsushima". That didn't help much, did it?
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9 to 5 fer sure.
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Thanks Mark. They've got the whole goddam movie on YouTube - I had a quick look at some of the scenes, but it's really one I'll have to watch with a crate of beer in.
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