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I was just recently listening to the Label X CD of Ron Goodwin's famous film score suites. I like the "Force 10 From Navarone" suite very much but "The Miss Marple Film's" suite is also a great listen, particulary the first minute with that great waltz/violin music. Good thing I have the CD. It's great!
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Glad I got it, too!
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Hello folks
Ron Goodwin did record the Marples theme on a compilation LP called Adventure. A great recording but not as much music as the CD.
Shame no one had the foresight to keep the original recordings
I was luck enough to get an autographed copy of the CD at a concert in the mid 90's
Apparently in Scandinavia the theme is played everyday on the radio
Happy soundtrack hunting!
Charlie C
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Yes, Lancelot and Guinivere is great too; but my personal guilty pleasure is The Trials of Oscar Wilde (US: The Green Carnation). This has never been released on CD or LP in any form, as far as I am aware. A great shame.
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This has always been a favourite theme of mine and is so typical of Ron Goodwin's jaunty, aimiable style.
The 45rpm single was issued in the UK in 1961 (as Murder She Says) and the theme later appeared on Ron's "Adventure" LP in 1966 (as Miss Marple's Theme), but prior to that was released in the US on the MGM "Twilight of Honor" soundtrack LP (as Murder At The Gallop) in 1963.
As the timings are exactly the same for each version, I've always wondered if these are all actually the same recording (debuting in stereo for the album versions), or whether it was newly recorded for stereo?
I think it's the same recording, but a very different mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKEDinZn0g
One of the most tragic losses in the history of film music. All four scores would deserve full releases. With Warner's current release policy, however, M&E tracks on any DVD or Blu-Ray release are too much to ask for.
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Here's what BillCarson said in the other thread in January last year:
The estate do stil have all Ron's partitures. So his full ouevre is there for Tadlow or similar.
And they had many of ron's mastertapes but all needed the expensive special process to rescue digitally.
I think this is not true for the Miss Marple scores. The liner notes for the LXE CD say that Ron Goodwin had to re-create the suite by watching the movies on video since the written scores are no longer available. My last information is that the estate doesn't own any tape stock on those movies either. The only options are thus the m&e tracks or a full recreation of the score.
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