Lovely instrumental themes, so memorable, although George Benson's The Greatest is obviously best known I think as the Whitney Houston cover from the 80s.
Lovely 70s romantic orchestral work. Fans of romantic Shire and even Barry may like this a lot. The instrumental of It's My Turn is a heart tugger of pop scoring.
Masser also did the violin theme from that Tom Hanks film scored by Thomas Newman.
MAHOGANY was arranged and conducted by Lee Holdridge.
Lee Holdridge also did the string arrangements on the vocal & instrumental of IT'S MY TURN.
James
Are we talking about the film with Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas? Love that movie. I still have the Diana Ross song on vinyl and boy, the string arrangement accompanying her vocals really sound glorious on analog.
MAHOGANY was arranged and conducted by Lee Holdridge.
Lee Holdridge also did the string arrangements on the vocal & instrumental of IT'S MY TURN.
James
Are we talking about the film with Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas? Love that movie. I still have the Diana Ross song on vinyl and boy, the string arrangement accompanying her vocals really sound glorious on analog.
And Diana sings the hell out of it. I always point to that record when people dump on her.
MAHOGANY was arranged and conducted by Lee Holdridge.
Lee Holdridge also did the string arrangements on the vocal & instrumental of IT'S MY TURN.
James
Are we talking about the film with Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas? Love that movie. I still have the Diana Ross song on vinyl and boy, the string arrangement accompanying her vocals really sound glorious on analog.
I finally caught up with MAHOGANY on DVD, although I've had the LP for 30 years (the CD is OOP and expensive). Great song by Michael Masser and Gerald Goffin.
Varese Sarabande has recently re-released on CD the Michael Masser soundtrack from the 1977 Muhammad Ali biopic THE GREATEST. To the original 8 tracks, they have added four bonus tracks: two 1963 vocals by (then) Cassius Clay, a DJ 45 version of George Benson's "The Greatest Love of All," and a disco version of one of Michael Masser's score tracks. Michael Masser’s score was originally released on an Arista LP, and re-issued on CD by Razor & Tie in 1997.
Although he's only credited with arrangements and conducting, I'm always amazed how much some of the score tracks in Mahogany sound 100% Lee Holdridge.
