In chronological order Incident in the Middle of Nowhere (from Rawhide) Rio Conchos Hour of the Gun Bandolero! 100 Rifles Wild Rovers One Little Indian Breakheart Pass
Just started watching a tv western from the 60s, THE LONER. Created by Rod Serling. And, OF COURSE, I immediately knew who wrote the theme without looking at the credits!
Just started watching a tv western from the 60s, THE LONER. Created by Rod Serling. And, OF COURSE, I immediately knew who wrote the theme without looking at the credits!
Goldsmith’s music for The Loner is excellent. It’s also the only TV western score of his to be released on CD, with the exception of the Twilight Zone episode “Dust”. FSM premiered it on a now OOP disc, but thankfully LLL did their own remastered edition a few years ago. Still available, in case anyone missed it: https://lalalandrecords.com/stagecoach-the-loner-limited-edition/
Goldsmith’s music for The Loner is excellent. It’s also the only TV western score of his to be released on CD, with the exception of the Twilight Zone episode “Dust”. FSM premiered it on a now OOP disc, but thankfully LLL did their own remastered edition a few years ago. Still available, in case anyone missed it: https://lalalandrecords.com/stagecoach-the-loner-limited-edition/
Weird that it took so long to discover his Western scores from the 60s. Then again, I was crazy about the FLINT scores which share many stylistic and instrumental similarities!
I still keep my FSM copy for the superior liner notes, even though the LLL has much better art design, better sound, and restores some missing overlays.
Actually Jerry's awesome main theme from The Loner owes more to a bit of counterpoint he wrote for the final action cue in Lonely Are the Brave ("Run for It").
Weird that it took so long to discover his Western scores from the 60s. Then again, I was crazy about the FLINT scores which share many stylistic and instrumental similarities!
Kids in the 60s weren't really into Western esp. " old-man" ones. Jerry seemed to only score the Wayne, Martin, Stewart brand. Too bad. Would love to have seen what he could do with Clint. At least he did some with Jim Brown and that group. But those were ' B' films.
Arguably the majority of Jerry's westerns were B films. He did do a Lee van Cleef (Take a Hard Ride) and Jason Robards (Ballad of Cable Hogue) and Kirk Douglas (Lonely Are the Brave) and Charles Bronson (Breakheart Pass)...I'd classify all of these as "new" type westerns, even if they were of varying quality.
He only scored a single John Wayne western (Rio Lobo); Elmer Bernstein handled most of those in the 60s and 70s...and I think only one Jimmy Stewart (Bandolero), which itself was more of a "new" western too...
