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Mar 11, 2012 - 10:26 PM
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ToneRow
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THE TOMB OF LIGEIA is my favorite Roger Corman film based upon Poe.
It was with this film, which I first saw around 1989 on VHS, that I was introduced to Kenneth V. Jones.
To tell the truth, however, the music Jones provided for TOMB never quite grabbed me as I watched this picture multiple times.
It was by exploring other more "obscure" titles that I got more impressed with Kenneth V. Jones, such as the following:
TOWER OF EVIL (1972)
This flick is a sort of missing link between the early '70s British chillers by Tigon or Herman Cohen, and the late '70s slasher films & Pete Walker & Norman J. Warren.
The score's quite modern.
One may very well ask, after hearing the score to this, if this was indeed the same Kenneth Jones who scored TOMB OF LIGEIA?
There should be no doubt, though, that it's the same Kenneth Jones of TOMB who wrote the music for THE PROJECTED MAN a few years later:
Unless this is on YouTube, this item has only been on Region 2 DVD from the U.K.
Most recently, I got a copy of the DVD-R on PYSCHE 59 (1964), which Kenneth Jones did the same year as TOMB:
All I can say about this is - WOW!
Jones' PSYCHE 59 is heads and shoulders above all other K.V. Jones that I've heard thus far.
It's almost wall-to-wall like a Tiomkin, but it sounds nothing at all like a Golden Age score.
The score for PSYCHE 59 is a blend of both Debussian impressionism along with Schoenbergian expressionism, with some jazzy big-band sounds added into the stewpot to depict the implied sadomasochistic affair between Curt Jurgens and lingerie-clad Samantha Eggar.
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I've always liked Kenneth V. Jones' score for the absolutely excellent movie TOMB OF LIGEIA - there are quite a few bucolic sequences in an otherwise largely dissonant score (some of it sounds like "Han Solo and the Princess"!)... but I'm not sure if there's enough interesting material to make a complete soundtrack. Unfortunately, the estimable Mr AngloAmerican on his superb YouTube channel only managed to cull the Main and End Titles from TOMB, but the other stuff is intriguing too.
You'll hear THE BRAIN until about the 2:20 mark. A downtrodden jazzy piece. As soon as I heard that I thought "I've got that on cassette from 1973 telly". I think it might be actually another title for what I saw as VENGEANCE.
THE PROJECTED MAN is next, until about 7:10. This is good powerful stuff. I remember the film as being a bit rubbish, but it's a fine dissonant score.
TOMB OF LIGEIA finishes things off for the last three minutes or so.
So here's what Mr AngloAmerican has done with Mr Jones' scores - the scores don't match the films (you'll be watching much of TOMB OF LIGEIA with the score from THE PROJECTED MAN playing), but as I have said to the point of annoyance on the Brit Horror thread, I really like his creative use of YouTube - little minimovies in themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4gF_4Tg7c
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James, don't get your Kens in a twist! One is one and the other is the other one! See ToneRow's post above.
Just thinking about what a great movie TOMB OF LIGEIA is. I've seen it about ten times and it comes up with something new on each viewing. Such a rich, multi-layered screenplay. Just wonderful. I can't make up my mind if I prefer this to MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH - both are superb. As regards the score, well I said earlier that I'm not sure if a full release would be a compelling listen from beginning to end (that's pretty hard to achieve, film music being film music), but I think that if Quartet (for example, after their sterling work on David Lee's MASQUE score) wants to go ahead and release it, then it would be something I would simply "have to have" (in an unhealthy, compulsive-buying way).
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Right James! I remember having to sit through "The Good Old Days" with my grandparents, and when "Maestro Bernard Herrmann" appeared, giving them a potted history of his importance in the world of film music - all done with the snotty and snooty attitute of the 14-year-old ponce I once was (I'm now older at least).
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Apologies (again) for bumping an old topic. But I just watched this movie for the first time on Shout's Vincent Price Collection II on Blu-ray. I really enjoyed Kenneth Jones' score here.. would love to see a release someday!
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Can anyone identify which Ken Jones contributed to Edwin Astley's THE SAINT on the Razor and Tie label (RE 2156-2) ?
There are 3 tracks wholly attributed to Jones: Ying-Ting-Piddle-Ay-Kilt, Slinky, and Swinging Simon. And a couple of tracks credited to both Astley and Jones. Do you think it's the Ken V; or the Ken E. Jones?
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