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Help! Where can I find classic Indian theme from the westerns?
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Topic: Help! Where can I find classic Indian theme from the westerns?
Gone2Disneyland
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I'd like to find the soundtrack that has the classic drum theme for the Indians in western films. It goes DUUUUN-DUUUUN-da-DAH-da-dun-DAAAAH with beating drums underneath. The closest thing I've got is the "Indians" track on "Back to the Future Part III" which is like a distant cousin some generations removed.I haven't seen a lot of westerns, so I listened to some tracks from "How the West Was Won" and "The Big Country" over at amazon trying find it, but didn't. If anyone here can post the soundtrack name, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
posted 02-05-2006 10:43 PM PT (US) MWRuger
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It's a theme I remember in Max Steiner westerns if I have the right theme in mind. Many of JOhn Ford's films should have it as well. I also think Victor Young made use of it in Around the World in 80 days and Rio Grande.You can try:
They Died With Thier Boots On.
Fort Apache. (don't recall a release for this one)
Rio Grande.
The Searchers.I am sure others wil chime in.
posted 02-06-2006 07:24 AM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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That sort of thing is in lots of films. It was reused in the 1961 WBs film Yellowstone Kelly too. Probably in Distant Drums about the Seminole War in Flor too. Yellowstone Kelly had John Russell, Edward Brynes(77 Sunset Strip) and Clint Walker(Cheyenne). The score is credited to Howard Jackson but has lots of reworked and re-recorded music from old Steiner scores including that Indian motif. Jackson did the same sort of thing on Merrills Marauders in 1961. He re-recorded much of Waxmans score from Objective Burma and put it in there.J.
posted 02-06-2006 07:42 AM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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This is also the sort of thing done in a late 50s film with Widmark and Tina Louise called Man Trap. A really poor film, but funny. It has reworked music from Rozsas film noir movies from late 40s adapted by someone named Talbot. Killers, Brute Force etc. J.
posted 02-06-2006 07:45 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB