Doesn't anyone else agree that a FULL Release of the original rejected "Exorcist" score is in order? I have the suite, rock ballad, and trailer music that was released in 1998, but I am so sure there is probably more to it, don't you?
I'm pretty sure everything that was recorded was released on that CD that came in the home video package. Friedkin stopped the recording session before Schifrin could finish.
Now maybe we could have a rerecording of the complete score some day, and Schifrin would be the man to do it.
Doesn't anyone else agree that a FULL Release of the original rejected "Exorcist" score is in order? I have the suite, rock ballad, and trailer music that was released in 1998, but I am so sure there is probably more to it, don't you?
Who's with me?
Didn't Lalo Reuse the score somewhere else? And the story is that William F. was so pissed off at Lalo, he throw the original tapes across the street? IS that true?
Doesn't anyone else agree that a FULL Release of the original rejected "Exorcist" score is in order? I have the suite, rock ballad, and trailer music that was released in 1998, but I am so sure there is probably more to it, don't you?
Who's with me?
Didn't Lalo Reuse the score somewhere else? And the story is that William F. was so pissed off at Lalo, he throw the original tapes across the street? IS that true?
Right! He threw them so far they landed on a haunted house in some other movie.
It's noted in John Burlingame's liner notes to the Aleph rerecording of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.
He says Lalo is "quick to dispel the lingering but unfounded rumor" that AMITYVILLE was "a recycling of his equally but quite different music for THE EXORCIST."
Count me as very interested in hearing Lalo's "The Exorcist". His score for "The Fox"approached the innocence-to-madness story in such a chilling way, I think it would be fascinating to hear.
I recenty purchased a copy of the Exorcist CD with the suite of Schifrin's unused score from a fellow FSMer, which I hope to get in the mail early next week. Looking forward to listening to it.
It was a myth for some time that Lalo reused his Exorcist score for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, but it simply wasn't true.
There's a little familiar string work for Amityville, its recycled near the end of Polymorphia & music from the unused trailer & suite it is minimal doe very in there - The Exorcist does have fragments of Bullitt an Dirty Harry its tiny recycling for suspense its there clear too hear.
I'm currently reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind and it mentions the anecdote where Freidkin throws the tapes across the street because "he hated the fucking Mexican music". There's no mexican sounding music in that unused suite, to my ears anyway, so maybe Freidkin actually did destroyed those parts of the tapes?
I know I'm quite late in answering this, but for the record, he re-used certain parts, practically note for note, in his score to "A Stranger Is Watching".
Has anything else from Lalo Schifrin's score beyond the suite and two other tracks that appear on the aforementioned CD?
I really don't think so. I always kept a look out for this as THE EXORCIST is my absolute favourite movie and I was curious about a different approach. I never found anything outside what you mentioned. Much as I like Lalo Schifrin, after hearing that suite, I was sooooo relieved they didn't go with it. It would have given the whole film a much different feel which, for this fan, would have been not a patch on what we now have.
I really don't think so. I always kept a look out for this as THE EXORCIST is my absolute favourite movie and I was curious about a different approach. I never found anything outside what you mentioned. Much as I like Lalo Schifrin, after hearing that suite, I was sooooo relieved they didn't go with it. It would have given the whole film a much different feel which, for this fan, would have been not a patch on what we now have.
It's probably like 2001. You can appreciate the original score, but completely understand why the director made the switch.
At any rate, do we know if Lalo composed a complete score, or was he still writing when he was canned? Based on everything he has done for his own label, it's surprising that he hasn't recorded "The Exorcist."