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John C Winfrey Standard Userer	I have been a fan of his since a kid about 45 years ago and the first LPs I got were Robe, HWWW and some of those. Also found Nevada Smith for 50 cents at Murphys on Southside of Ft Worth back around 68. Here are some of the lesser known ones on him I really like: 1. Wilson-love all the variations of the march in the score. One of my favs by him. Even with all the source and patriotic music this is a great score. 1944 2.-3. Our Daily Bread and Les Miserables, 34 and 35. Some of same music in both films but I like them both. The music for the irrigation scene is very interesting and in Les I like the march in it. Its a reworking of the chase music in the film. 4. The Big Lift-1950 although not much music in the score, the march is good at beginning and end and the travel music to Germany near first of film is very good. 5. Twelve O Clock High-1949, very short score, but I love all the trailer variations on this music on the CD. Although the airfield music is very similiar to that piece in Best Years, Friedhofer and Newman did that often in many situations, borrowing ideas and reusing various cues. 6. Panic in the Streets-basically the opening cue-1950. Reused in Knock on Any Door-1952. The theatrical trailer has a knockout version of this cue-extended. 7. Real Glory-1939 some great music in this one. Great march and lots of great action music. Nice love theme too. 8. the extra action cues he wrote for the Westerner-1940. Tiomkin did most of score, Newman added some great extra cues. 9. the main title music in Stanley and LIvingstone-1939-uncredited. Great march. Variations of it all through film and end title. 10. Vigil in Night-1940 RKO film about nurses great march for the hospital. 11. December 7th-great march in it. These are just some of them. J./
posted 10-11-2007 10:36 AM PT (US)

AaronR1074 Standard Userer	While I appreciate Alfred Newman for his classic works, do we REALLY need to have that aweful 20th Century Fox Fanfare before EVERY friggen Star Wars CD ever released?! When I ripped them onto my hard drive I purposefully excluded that track. Enough is enough! We GET that Star Wars and FOX go hand to hand FFS!! Oh yeah and one more thing: "Alfred E. Newman for president!" [Message edited by AaronR1074 on 10-11-2007]
posted 10-11-2007 07:03 PM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	Whats wrong with ahving the FOX fanfare on Star Wars CDs? You really think its awful?
posted 10-11-2007 09:46 PM PT (US)

AaronR1074 Standard Userer	Yeah I do. I think it takes away from the experience of hearing the Star Wars theme on its own. You MUST hear the fanfare before the main titles. Its as if they've forced a standard on every Star Wars release to have that fanfare on the CDS. I feel lucky that they put it on a seperate track. They could have easily forced us to fast forward through it. My theory is that its part of FOX/Lucas contract to put the fanfare on there. I don't see John Williams approving it. Its even on the expanded Phantom Menace release and the Star Wars Anthology box set. [Message edited by AaronR1074 on 10-12-2007] [Message edited by AaronR1074 on 10-12-2007]
posted 10-12-2007 05:54 AM PT (US)

tjguitar Standard Userer	But there are plenty of releases that it is not on.
posted 10-12-2007 10:06 AM PT (US)

joan hue Standard Userer	Thanks John for sharing those rather rare Newman scores. Makes me want to watch those movies again. My favorite Newman scores will probably always be the lovely Wuthering Heights and the rousing How The West Was Won.
posted 10-12-2007 11:48 AM PT (US)

Ken S Standard Userer	Great topic, John! These days when the contemporary music from Hollywood sounds only ****, the old Hollywood magic sparkles more than ever before! I have been recently enjoying many releases on the Twentieth Century Fox Classics series - and one thing that has truly captured my attention, is the music of Alfred Newman. I've always known he was a great composer, but seeing films like SONG OF BERNADETTE and ALL ABOUT EVE has made me to fall in love with his music even more. My all-time Alfred Newman favorites are THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK and the supervision of Chaplin's MODERN TIMES score. KEN
posted 10-15-2007 07:37 AM PT (US)

AaronR1074 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by joan hue: Thanks John for sharing those rather rare Newman scores. Makes me want to watch those movies again. My favorite Newman scores will probably always be the lovely Wuthering Heights and the rousing How The West Was Won. How the West was Won was a great score. I might have to dig out my Kunzel CD and give it another listen.
posted 10-15-2007 10:48 AM PT (US)

AaronR1074 Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by joan hue: Thanks John for sharing those rather rare Newman scores. Makes me want to watch those movies again. My favorite Newman scores will probably always be the lovely Wuthering Heights and the rousing How The West Was Won. How the West was Won was a great score. I might have to dig out my Kunzel CD and give it another listen.
posted 10-15-2007 10:49 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Also reallly like the Drums Along the Mohawk film and score(although lots of patriotic source mixed in), Young Mr. Lincoln(reused in Man Called Peter and again in Man Who Shot Liberty Valence) and I like the traveling music in Grapes of Wrath where they make the trip west at first of film. Great stuff. J.
posted 10-24-2007 09:06 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	And dont forget these three classic scores by him that practically no one knows: Moontide 42 great score with a great action cue at the end. Life Begins at 8:30 some great music in this and Ten Gentlemen from WEst Point-really good.
posted 10-24-2007 09:08 AM PT (US)

sdtom Standard Userer	Have we all forgotten Captain from Castile? I sure haven't
posted 10-25-2007 10:13 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	Not hardly, CAptain is one of my all time favs. I love it. J.
posted 11-06-2007 04:36 PM PT (US)

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