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Philipp
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What a fun score ! Swinging sixties baby!
When I started listening to film scores, I stuck to the really huge orchestra scores, but now I am glad I expanded my horizon a little bit further up the road ! What a great score!Comments?
Philipp
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posted 05-15-2002 05:12 AM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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The only Schifrin disc I have is still his Hitchcock compilation. Funny enough, it consists of about 50% cues from scores for Hitchcock movies and 50% score cues by Lalo Schifrin (including Bullit and Dirty Harry, all conducted by Schifrin.The Hitchcock bits pretty much suck (the performances, not the compositions), but the Schifrin stuff is great.
posted 05-15-2002 05:46 AM PT (US) soundtrackman
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Schifrin is one of those great musicians who made the 60's such a golden age for film and TV music. His strong jazz/latin background made scores like "Bullitt" different, yet his dramatic sense made the work as effective as any clasically-styled score. Of course "Mission Impossible" is still as distinctive and memorable as a TV theme gets. "Mannix" isn't bad, although the music available on Cd (from Schifrin's own label, Aleph - see www.schifrin.com) is more like song-style versions of themes written for the show. Try "The Fox" for a true dramatic score, or better still "The Four Musketeers," which at least WAS available on CD on one of Steven Lasher's labels, I think. Even better still is "Enter the Dragon," which you can get from FSM.Someday I hope we'll get releases of other great Schifrin works, like "Joe Kidd" and the marvelous Main Title from "The President's Analyst."
Mark T.
posted 05-15-2002 06:23 AM PT (US) Vinylscrubber
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Besides seconding Soundtrackman's wish list, I'm hoping that there might be releases of more obscure (but just as deserving) Schifrin fare such as PRIME CUT (love that Kansas hoedown!), HARRY IN YOUR POCKET, GOLDEN NEEDLES, THE HELSTROM CHRONCLE, George C. Scott's forgotten directorial debut, RAGE, and CHARLIE VARRICK, with that terrific main title).There's also a wealth of TV material to be mined--themes for BLUE LIGHT, PETROCELLI,
and a tv movie whose title escapes me but starred Eric (COLOSSUS) Braeden and Inger Stevens--THE MASK OF . . . something or other. posted 05-16-2002 06:41 AM PT (US) Graham Watt
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BULLITT - great score. I've only got the old Japanese LP (which I'm sure was a re-recording anyway) and I haven't heard the recent Aleph release, but I don't think the actual film version main titles have been properly represented on disc, with all that exciting reverb. In the film itself, the brass almost reverbs as much as the trumpets in PATTON.I was just listening to Schifrin's COOL HAND LUKE tonight. What a great score. And in THE CINCINNATI KID the impressionistic pastoral writing is exquisite, but for the most part those scores are products of their time, with lots of source cues preserved on the soundtrack releases.
Other great Lalos - well, ENTER THE DRAGON of course, the aforementioned 4 MUSKETEERS (a revelation), lots of the ones other people mentioned above. My guilty pleasure (if only because the film is so ridiculously enjoyable) is his excellent scoring for THE MANITOU - Tony Curtis in Indian spirit thriller.
posted 05-17-2002 03:17 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB