thanks

Here's the post from rec.music.movies:

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FILM SCORE MONTHLY releases The UNDEFEATED & HOMBRE

Two Classic 1960s Western Scores on One CD

Film Score Monthly has rescued from oblivion two vintage western scores
from the 20th Century Fox archives: The Undefeated by Hugo Montenegro
and Hombre by David Rose, two composers seldom represented on CD for
their film score work.

In the late 1960s, America's most popular and enduring genre went nova.
This was, to say the least, a final burst of freaky creativity -- good
and bad -- from a fading genre, bringing revisionism, surrealism,
dinosaurs, and even Elvis Presley to the "cowboy" movie. The western was
undergoing radical change and experimentation, and we present two
never-before-available scores from that period: Both were produced by
20th Century-Fox with top-line casts: John Wayne and Rock Hudson in The
Undefeated; Paul Newman and a sturdy ensemble in Hombre.

The Undefeated is a sprawling escapist western involving Civil War
factions, Mexican politics, bandits, mustangs and brawls -- typical Duke
fare, but with updated scope and ambitions. The score, by Hugo
Montenegro, is a long, showy score steeped in tradition yet with a pop
gleam in its eye; it features reams of deceptively simple yet memorable
thematic material. Its terrific main theme could easily be at home in a
modern-day NFL broadcast.

In contrast, Hombre is a sober portrait of human interaction and
prejudice, re-teaming Newman with a filmmaker of great deliberate craft,
director Martin Ritt. David Rose, who scored pop song hits with "The
Stripper" and "Holiday for Strings" wrote a short, sparse score that we
have collected into longer suite-form tracks; the music presents a
meaningful and melodic echo of the story's quiet deliberations.

Together, these scores add up to over an hour of music in stereo. Along
with a bonus "mystery track", this CD stands as a tribute to two
distinguished, prolific but underrepresented musicians -- and a
snapshot of their memorable contributions to the western's last days.

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and RIO CONCHOS is pretty cool too!

STAGECOACH/THE LONER is the most laid-back of the Goldsmith Western albums I've heard, and therefore atypical. Goldsmith largely eschewed action writing for STAGECOACH, at least that's what I remember the liner notes saying (don't have my copy at hand right now.)

NP -- The Minus Man, Beltrami

Take a Hard Ride is pretty good, too.

Poseidon Adventure CD came out, the film airs on AMC a couple months later.

Fantastic Voyage CD comes out; the film airs a few months later, also on AMC

Comancheros CD comes out; and all they do is air the film

All About Eve comes out; and they show it on TV

Prince of Foxes CD comes out, and they show THAT one...

and now with the Undefeated, the film will get some airplay as FSM releases a new CD.

is there some sort of pattern here?

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Originally posted by JJH:
PeterD brings up a point:

Poseidon Adventure CD came out, the film airs on AMC a couple months later.

Fantastic Voyage CD comes out; the film airs a few months later, also on AMC

Comancheros CD comes out; and all they do is air the film

All About Eve comes out; and they show it on TV

Prince of Foxes CD comes out, and they show THAT one...

and now with the Undefeated, the film will get some airplay as FSM releases a new CD.

is there some sort of pattern here?

NP -- [b]Assassin(s), Carter Burwell[/B]

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Don't forget about GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN.

I'm familiar with both Montenegro and Rose's television work - Montegnegro always struck me as a dilittente, for some reason; I'd never heard much of his film work - UNDEFEATED does make me want to reverse that thinking; the sound is big, but not quite 'epic'... best description that comes to mind is a melding of Bernstein/Moross with some slight pop overtones.

David Rose is mostly known for THE STRIPPER and BONANZA/LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE/HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN; I know he did other albums (he got mentioned a lot in the 'Elevator Music/Cocktail Nation subculture that was the rage 5-6 years ago) - HOMBRE is worlds away from that side. I'll have to take a few more listens.

I was fairly lukewarm about the titles when announced, but this was a nice surprise; FSM has yet to make a misstep in their selection of titles (which means probably giving them a lot of my money in backordering the earlier titles).

Regarding the 'mystery track' - could possibly be some music for LOST IN SPACE (not composed by Williams, possibly).

The FSM/AMC connection - just from looking over past titles, and some slight remarks in the mags, I thought it was fairly evident that Lukas & Co. apparently have some sort of deal w/the Fox people (which is not a BAD thing at all, considering what's been salvagable from their archives). There's a big hint about the upcoming disc in FSM's enclosed letter, that may make a lot of people happy. (I could be wrong, but the clue is fairly obvious, especially factoring in Fox pictures and shows in the 60's - could be a Riddle) ;\

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Coincidence? Or is it just that AMC keeps running the same movies over and over again?

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perhaps, but certainly my awareness of some movies has greatly improved by my acquisition of many of FSM's fine CDs. Perhaps that's all it is.

NP -- Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E Major