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BMI composer listing for Ride Clear of Diablo:
Herman Stein
Frank Skinner
Edward Ward
Hans J. Salter
Milton Rosen (also listed with Stein)
ASCAP duplicates most of those, but also adds: Henry Mancini
Probably a stock music job.
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I now have a feeling that the redubbed music may be by Herman Stein after all.
The Main Title of RUN CLEAR OF DIABLO had indeed been composed by Stein as you can see it in his filmography:
"RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO (western)
Stein (some track, incl. Main Title); Frederick Herbert & Arnold Hughes (song: “Wanted”); Milton Rosen; plus track by Hans Salter, Frank Skinner, Henry Mancini, Edward Ward."
https://cinescores.dudaone.com/an-interview-with-herman-stein
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Many thanks to Stefan for confirming that the Main Title for Ride Clear Of Diablo is definitely by Herman Stein.
Would you have anyway of knowing if this was the first time the piece was used, or if it was reused as a Main Title for any other Universal productions?
Maybe David Schecter - who knows everything about Herman Stein - has the cue sheeets for all the music tracks which appear in the movie and can even better answer your question, but I think that this piece was specially composed by Stein as Main Title for the Audie Murphy western. A few cues from former scores by Stein were apparently addtionally recycled, but he did also compose some original music for this film - and it seems that one of these new tracks was the Main Title.
Also Clifford McCarty in his book "Film Composers in America" mentions that Stein composed new music for RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO besides stock music. If only stock music by Stein had been used, then McCarty wouldn´t mention the film title in his book at all.
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Thinking one of the background guys who never took credit. Zador? Castelnuovo-Tedesco?
No, it is neither Zador nor Castelnuovo-Tedesco. It has already been definitively cleared up that the music in that Main Title is by Herman Stein who worked on many Universal pictures at that time. The only question which remains is whether the music had been tracked from a Stein score witten for Universal one or two years previously (he worked for Universal only from 1951 onwards) or if it was orignal music by him composed especially for the western - in my opinion it is original music.
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All of Herman Stein´s manuscripts are at the University of Wyoming.
There are not only manuscripts, but also many tapes for his scores:
https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/pdffa/02863.pdf
And - lo and behold - you can find there not only the manuscript (with 35 leaves), but even a reel-to-reel tape for RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO!
So these are the cues he wrote for that western in 1954 and which are also on that tape:
- Main Title
- Sheriff´s Niece
- Clay Riding Toward Diablo
- Clay And His Prisoner
- Whitey Puts Clay Wise
- Laurie Feels Insulted
- Lauri, Forget Clay
- Gun Fight
- End Title
- End Cast
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