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I started collecting Elton albums a few years ago and heard the FRIENDS soundtrack on the RARE MASTERS set you just ordered. I especially like the two outtakes from TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION: "Honey Roll" and "Can I Put You On." Buckmaster, who was Elton's orchestra arranger for his songs at the time, wrote an impressive pastoral score.
The FRIENDS LP, by the way, contributed to the glut of Elton product in the early 1970s. Within a two year period the albums ELTON JOHN, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION, the live 11/17/71, FRIENDS, MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER and HONKY CHATEAU were all released. No harm though, as Elton was on his way to being the music superstar of the era.
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Oct 26, 2020 - 3:30 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Finally watched this film.
From first hearing the Seasons song in the Wonder Years TV series in the 80s, to tracking down the LP and loving the score and other songs, it's been a long journey.
It's a very dated film, and also very stilted and stiff...and unreal.
None of the situations rang true for me. A lot of it played like very bad Am-Dram.
It's like a Blue Lagoon rehash, substituting the tropical island for the South of France, early 70s.
It's also quite a relic of its time, featuring some very uncomfortable child nudity that might sit well for viewers like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, but would make a normal person shift with unease and some gory animal cruelty (a bull fight in all its bloody glory) that ain't nice to watch either.
The score, as heard in the film, is quite unlike the tracks that were re-recorded* for the LP.
It's still quite lovely, but a lot more rough around the edges, and there's a lot less in the film, than heard on the LP.
The film I saw in my head (over all those years) was miles better than the one I finally saw all these years later.
*I assume it's a re-recording, as it differs in the way you hear scores like Jaws, The Fury, Capricorn One differ between film and album.
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I didn't know Paul Buckmaster passed away , what a chock ... I liked his 12 monkeys soundtrack !
If memory serves me PB orchestrated "The Spy Who Loved Me" for Hamlisch who was never an orchestrator.
He relied on Dick Hazard and my friend Jack Hayes, who along with his partner Leo Shuken, orchestrated MH's first
film "The Swimmer".
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