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 Posted:   Nov 27, 2019 - 11:18 AM   
 By:   dashrr   (Member)

Really playing this a lot for some reason. Was the beautiful famous theme part of the Main Title or was it solely for the song written. Was it also used throughout the film?

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2019 - 11:22 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I couldn't identify the score in the first ten minutes of the film (that's all I have been able to see).

Here is a suite of all the score from the first ten minutes, that I made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ6FwksNRBA

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2019 - 12:34 PM   
 By:   Octoberman   (Member)

Here is a suite of all the score from the first ten minutes, that I made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ6FwksNRBA



It's YOU!
YOU ARE FISH MAN!

I wanna buy you a beer, buddy.

 
 Posted:   Nov 27, 2019 - 12:36 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I know, it seems fishy, but Fish Man is salmon else.

But you can search the word "suite" on my channel...

 
 
 Posted:   May 17, 2020 - 6:32 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Surely Bruce posted an announcement when this album was first released, but for some reason this thread is the only one I can find. I've been enjoying the great CD so much it took me till today to have a really good look at the cover. It's unusual and striking with its ghosty figures haunting a New Orleans street scene.

Bruce, are you listening? The album's art director gets a credit, but there's no specific indication whether he is the cover artist or what might be the title of the image. Any answers out there?

 
 
 Posted:   May 22, 2020 - 10:35 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

Surely Bruce posted an announcement when this album was first released, but for some reason this thread is the only one I can find. I've been enjoying the great CD so much it took me till today to have a really good look at the cover. It's unusual and striking with its ghosty figures haunting a New Orleans street scene.

Bruce, are you listening? The album's art director gets a credit, but there's no specific indication whether he is the cover artist or what might be the title of the image. Any answers out there?


Doug Haverty, the fellow who's been doing covers for me since the final years at Varese Sarabande, finds images he likes that he can purchase, then he manipulates them to suit his purposes. He's really good at this stuff.

 
 Posted:   May 23, 2020 - 3:44 AM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

The melody is played by a solo guitarist while the rest of the prison brigade listens to the male singer while seated in good behavior @ 1:02:31. You'll have to chip in there if you want to see/hear it. The actual music we are all familiar with is played incidentally during a romantic interlude. You can find the movie on YT, and the music starts at 42:17 out of it's duration of 1:12:42, although North's original from the film sounds quantitatively different from the established recording.

 
 
 Posted:   May 23, 2020 - 3:11 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)


Surely Bruce posted an announcement when this album was first released, but for some reason this thread is the only one I can find. I've been enjoying the great CD so much it took me till today to have a really good look at the cover. It's unusual and striking with its ghosty figures haunting a New Orleans street scene.

Bruce, are you listening? The album's art director gets a credit, but there's no specific indication whether he is the cover artist or what might be the title of the image. Any answers out there?

***

Doug Haverty, the fellow who's been doing covers for me since the final years at Varese Sarabande, finds images he likes that he can purchase, then he manipulates them to suit his purposes. He's really good at this stuff.

***

Thanks, big Guy. Can you mention any of his other Kritzerland covers? I'm sure I must have a bunch of them in my library. (And do you happen to know what this particular Unchained image originated as and what kind of manipulation he did on it?)

 
 
 Posted:   May 23, 2020 - 5:25 PM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

Surely Bruce posted an announcement when this album was first released, but for some reason this thread is the only one I can find. I've been enjoying the great CD so much it took me till today to have a really good look at the cover. It's unusual and striking with its ghosty figures haunting a New Orleans street scene.

Bruce, are you listening? The album's art director gets a credit, but there's no specific indication whether he is the cover artist or what might be the title of the image. Any answers out there?

***

Doug Haverty, the fellow who's been doing covers for me since the final years at Varese Sarabande, finds images he likes that he can purchase, then he manipulates them to suit his purposes. He's really good at this stuff.

***

Thanks, big Guy. Can you mention any of his other Kritzerland covers? I'm sure I must have a bunch of them in my library. (And do you happen to know what this particular Unchained image originated as and what kind of manipulation he did on it?)


Any of our covers, close to 400 of 'em - he did them all. I'm especially fond of his classical covers. They're all on our website.

 
 
 Posted:   May 24, 2020 - 4:05 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Cool. Thanks.

 
 
 Posted:   May 27, 2020 - 10:35 AM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Surely Bruce posted an announcement when this album was first released

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=135880&forumID=1&archive=0

I wonder if Kritzerland is working on some new soundtrack releases...?

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2020 - 11:39 AM   
 By:   John McMasters   (Member)

The full movie is again on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE_es014R4A

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2020 - 6:25 PM   
 By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member)

Last Child, thank you for succeeding where I failed.

 
 
 Posted:   May 28, 2020 - 6:29 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

Last Child, whatever the secret password is, you know it and I don't. Thanks for finding the link!

Lol, sometimes the search engine works. I was looking for an excuse to ask if Bruce had anything in the hopper.

 
 Posted:   Dec 4, 2020 - 1:58 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I guess there must be tapes issues. And a critically acclaimed film is still not released for purchase?

 
 Posted:   Dec 4, 2020 - 9:02 PM   
 By:   Grecchus   (Member)

I still can't help but feel Goldsmith was channelling North's Unchained in Logan's Run, in particular, End Of The City. After the initial low end intro, we hear a very specifically toned string section with an arrangement I believe is in homage to Unchained Melody. It is basically the Logan's Run love theme being 'clay potted' with the contours of the thing to which it is following in identical stride. It only deviates when Goldsmith punctuates the music to conclude Logan's Run. I think he did it with intent and it is particularly cleverly interwoven. So, we have the low key intro, the Unchained tribute and then the formal conclusion to Logan's Run in crescendo.

 
 Posted:   Feb 1, 2021 - 2:58 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Okay, I've finished listening to the entire score as heard in the film, twice now and I have some thoughts:

What a great score.

From the old-school opening credits (admittedly this cue is not for me, but others will love it; still highly tolerable), the multiple lush and intimate renditions of the theme we know from the song that originated in this film (sung twice in the film but the two leads) that are all just wonderful and sometimes yummy, to the more dramatic material at the end including the menacing builds, the rumbling and angry timpani rolls and hits for the climax, to the brass and timpani lead closing cue, just so much to enjoy here.

Sadly, the load of the film linked above -- the only load on the main video sites -- is incomplete; the closing cut is cut off and we don't hear the end credits (North's screen credit isn't in the opening, so it must be in the end credits; in fact, only the name of the film is in the opening).

This has quickly leaped to a Top 5 score for me by the composer. Some label needs to rectify the lack of release (if there are tapes and/or usable tapes).



The film itself appears to be very good, too and in my opinion, worth watching. Some label, say Twilight Time, should put this out (and fix the bad edits in the film).

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 18, 2021 - 6:29 PM   
 By:   Buttons   (Member)

Just watched Ghost for the first time yesterday afternoon. According to my wife I need to be more like Patrick Swayze. Anyway. I loved Jarre's orchestral version of Unchained Melody (can't get it out of my head). Is the Kritzerland Alex North CD the closest and best representation of the original we have available right now? Any other compilation with Unchained Melody that I should check out?

 
 Posted:   Sep 18, 2021 - 6:33 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

According to my wife I need to be more like Patrick Swayze.?

Dead?

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 18, 2021 - 6:43 PM   
 By:   .   (Member)

John Mauceri did a very nice version of Unchained Melody. It's on Youtube and Spotify.

 
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