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Jul 18, 2010 - 7:09 AM
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ToneRow
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While I can't shed any light on the existence of the orignal recording session tapes from "Strangers When We Meet", I can share my enthusiasm for George Duning and his music, and, yes, this is one of Duning's great scores.
Especially memorable is the poignant music near the end when Kim Novak visits Kirk Douglas in his newly completed house to break-up their extra-marital affair.
If this score was recorded in 1960 @ Columbia Pictures, then it would be 50 years old by 2010, not 40.
True, no soundtrack album was ever done on this title, but isn't it possible that mono mix-downs might have been given to the composer?
Around 1977, Tony Thomas produced a private LP pressing of George Duning's score to the 1957 "3:10 To Yuma", which also hails from Columbia Pictures (Duning was under contract with Columbia for many years). I still own this record album, which is monaural and sounds very good. Couldn't other such private mono tapes exist as well?
Decca records released George Duning's score for "Cowboy" in 1958, which is one of those LPs that has never been re-issued on CD, but at least those album masters should exist even if the original Columbia Studios recordings do not.
Perhaps there's more hope for Duning's work after his contract with Columbia expired in 1962; if FSM released Duning's "Toys In The Attic", then it may be possible that the original recording sessions are available from Warner Bros.' 1965 "My Blood Runs Cold", one of my personal favorites written by Duning...
[the Colpix LP of Duning's "The Devil At 4 O'Clock" sounds great for 1961; those recordings at Columbia Studios must have been very well done. That Colpix album cover not only credits George Duning but also orchestrator Arthur Morton! Perhaps they needed extra text to fill-out the blockage of Frank Sinatra's image within the artwork? Still, it's interesting to observe that after Duning went free-lance in 1963, Arthur Morton went on to become the most frequent orchestrator with Jerry Goldsmith... ]
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Another interesting fact regarding this gorgeous score is that the film's director Richard Quine wrote lyrics to it. The song can be heard (oddly enough) in the film 'Don't Knock the Twist'.
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