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Roger's answer is unfortunately inconclusive:
"For this release we decided to stick with the formal credit that is in the film. Whether Fielding actually actually conducted wasn't something we could firmly confirm."
Yet in the new CD TechTalk by Douglass Fake, he seems to contradict:
"The composer was far more interested in detailed, musically impassioned playing and less concerned with clinically sterile performances. As a result, a degree of room noise (players moving in chairs, instrument keys rattling, etc) is sometimes prominent. We felt it would be criminal to artificially remove all these sounds; instead we let Jerry Fielding's original performances speak today just as they did back in 1971".
Having just received the reissue, I cuncur with Razzle Bathbone. It does indeed seem to imply what I infer, which is the normal sequence of events. I know the difference. I'd bet half a pint of tap water (do they charge for that nowadays in British pubs?) that it's Fielding himself conducting, going on Douglass Fake's wording.
I've still to listen to it though. What am I doing here?
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Apropos this topic, on Facebook there's a page for Jerry Fielding Appreciation. A couple of years ago some good soul contributed a photograph that had originally appeared in Kinematograph Weekly at the time the film was being made. The pic showed Jerry Fielding, David Whitaker and Michael Winner together, and the caption below read, "Hollywood composer Jerry Fielding (left) has just completed his score for producer/director Michael Winner's western 'Lawman' at the CTS Studios. The orchestra was conducted by David Whitaker (centre). Michael Winner (right) directed 'Lawman' starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Lee J. Cobb, on location in Mexico."
I would have lifted the photo and included it here, but for the life of me I still cannot figure out how to post pics on this board, sorry!
JMM.
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So would that have a been a Music Union kind of thing, as it was recorded in London?
Like what happened on ROBOCOP, when Howard Blake conducted, cos Basil Poledouris wasn't allowed to?
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Posting a photo is very easily. Upload the photo, follow the info' on the Special Code Legend you click on next to the text field box.
A photo hosting site (for example): postimages.org
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So would that have a been a Music Union kind of thing, as it was recorded in London?
Like what happened on ROBOCOP, when Howard Blake conducted, cos Basil Poledouris wasn't allowed to?
Sorry, KeV, I'm as much in the dark about it as anybody, and as has been alluded to above, it's possible that JF really did conduct and that Mr Whitaker was there "in name only". Also, the Eady Plan was still in existence then, as tax relief was granted to films for using British artists and technicians. However, other of Michael Winner's films of the time were also recorded in London without the requirement of a UK-based music conductor, so the mystery remains...
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Posting a photo is very easily. Upload the photo, follow the info' on the Special Code Legend you click on next to the text field box.
A photo hosting site (for example): postimages.org
Thank you, Justin. I'll work on it again, but I'm not at all confident...
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Apropos this topic, on Facebook there's a page for Jerry Fielding Appreciation. A couple of years ago some good soul contributed a photograph that had originally appeared in Kinematograph Weekly at the time the film was being made. The pic showed Jerry Fielding, David Whitaker and Michael Winner together, and the caption below read, "Hollywood composer Jerry Fielding (left) has just completed his score for producer/director Michael Winner's western 'Lawman' at the CTS Studios. The orchestra was conducted by David Whitaker (centre). Michael Winner (right) directed 'Lawman' starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan and Lee J. Cobb, on location in Mexico."
I would have lifted the photo and included it here, but for the life of me I still cannot figure out how to post pics on this board, sorry!
JMM.
I've just been to the Fielding Appreciation Facebook group and found the photo you mention, James. I "think" I copied it, but now I don't know where it is. Anyway, if anyone's interested, it's on a post from 27 November 2018. Former FSM member Heath(cliff Blair) - I miss his thoughtful posts here - mentioned the possible union issue, and Jon Burlingame himself showed surprise at seeing the picture ("Wow!")
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