FSM continues its informal annual tradition of releasing a 3CD set of classic western film scores with a second volume of westerns from the historical M-G-M film library:
Northwest Passage (Book I?Rogers’ Rangers) is the 1940 adventure score by Herbert Stothart, M-G-M’s premier composer in the 1930s and ’40s, presented in nearly complete form from the monaural optical film masters, with a few otherwise lost cues added from the film’s music-and-effects track.
Many Rivers to Cross (1955) is a comedy western score by Cyril J. Mockridge, conducted by no less than Miklos Rozsa, with a song (“The Berry Tree”) by M-G-M songwriter and executive Saul Chaplin. This score survives in glorious three-track stereo from the original 35mm magnetic film.
A Thunder of Drums (1961) is a cavalry adventure score by Harry Sukman, also presented in true stereo. Dominated by grim and martial passages, the music also features romantic strains anticipating Sukman’s scores for TV’s Dr. Kildare.
At the end of disc 3 is a television rarity: David Shire’s 1974 TV movie score for The Godchild (a John Badham-directed adaptation of Three Godfathers, a western story filmed several times earlier). It is a brief and spare work demonstrating the composer’s gift for simplicity and melody?presented in excellent stereo sound.
The film titles for this album were selected in large part from listener responses to our last westerns collection. So keep listening, and keep suggesting titles!
Complete liner notes for this album can be found?for free?online at our website.Limited to 2,000 copies. *FILM SCORE MONTHLYより抜粋
トラックリスト
DISC ONE:
Northwest Passage (Book I?Rogers’ Rangers) (1940) Music Composed and Conducted by Herbert Stothart
1. Main Title/Portsmouth Harbor 3:48 2. Harvard Pie/Calling on Elizabeth 2:20 3. At the Tavern 1:00 4. What’s This Map? 1:45 5. Rogers Convinces Amherst 0:26 6. Exit to Crown Point 0:50 7. Exit and Addenda to Crown Point 1:07 8. Long Boat Row/French and Indians/French Camp Fires 4:21 9. Through the Rain/Indian Atrocities 2:42 10. First Swamp/Morning 1:29 11. Second Swamp/Leaving Webster Behind 2:10 12. Indian Messengers/Provisions for Men 1:05 13. To the St. Francis River 0:27 14. I Could Capture Quebec/Repeated Instructions 2:42 15. Langdon Is Wounded 2:14 16. I Can Walk 3:05 17. Tired Marchers 0:52 18. There’s the Lake/Take a Vote 1:35 19. Crofton’s Vengeance 1:52 20. Dead Indian’s Head/Avery/Hunt Is Reminiscent/Langdon Drags Back/Friendship 4:42 21. The Last March 1:16 22. Fort Wentworth 1:40 23. Fife and Drums Corps/Inspection 1:57 24. You’ll See a Nation 1:10 25. To Find a Northwest Passage 2:53
Total Time: 50:20
Bonus Tracks *Contain Sound Effects
26. Main Title* 1:54 27. Over the Hill * 3:37 28. Human Chain* 5:41 29. Elizabeth* 0:34 30. Main Title (original opening) 1:52 31. Main Title (orchestra only) 1:53
Total Time: 15:44
Total Disc Time: 66:12
DISC TWO
Many Rivers to Cross (1955) Music Composed by Cyril Mockridge, Conducted by Miklos Rozsa Song: “The Berry Tree” by Saul Chaplin, Sung by Sheb Wooley
1. Main Title 1:53 2. Gourd Seeds 1:56 3. Bushrod Gets Bushed/Here Comes Mary/Barren River 3:55 4. Come See My Cave/In the Cave 4:46 5. Invitation to a Wedding 1:09 6. Luke and Bushrod Fight 1:23 7. Fight Continued 1:06 8. Nail Shoot Part 1 0:46 9. Nail Shoot Part 2 0:40 10. Contrary Mary and Mooning 2:01 11. Bushrod 2:02 12. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green 2:11 13. Thirty Days/Steppin’ Mary 2:02 14. Interrupted Love 2:46 15. Busted Romance 1:28 16. Bushrod Save My Chee-ild/Montage/Came the Dawn 4:04 17. Back to Barren River/Bushrod Finds Sandak/Where’s Mary?/Mary’s in Trouble/Stalking/What Took You So Long? (abridged)/Frontier Woman/Strategy/More Strategy/You Won Me/End Title?New/End Cast 17:52
Total Time: 52:35
Bonus Tracks
18. Main Title (instrumental) 1:50 19. Here Comes Mary (original version) 0:12 20. Mooning (original version) 1:14 21. Arkansas Traveler (Square Dance) (arr. George Bassman) 0:23 22. Wedding Waltz (arr. Robert Franklyn) 1:31 23. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Off to Bowling Green (original versions) 2:41 24. Thirty Days/Steppin’ Along (original versions) 2:18 25. Interrupted Love (original version) 0:40 26. What Took You So Long?/Seeking Shelter 1:19 27. End Title/End Cast (original versions) 1:02 28. Main Title (instrumental, alternate) 1:20 29. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green (instrumental) 2:11 30. The Berry Tree 0:50
Total Time: 17:59
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953) Music Composed and Conducted by Jeff Alexander Song: “Yellow Stripes” by Stan Jones
31. Main Title/Foreword (corrected mix) 2:59
Total Disc Time: 73:46
DISC THREE
A Thunder of Drums (1961) Music Composed and Conducted by Harry Sukman
1. The Rape/Main Title 2:44 2. Who Goes There? 2:34 3. The Funeral/Step Inside 2:03 4. Tracey/Go Away 2:38 5. Meet Miss Hamilton/No Payment 0:36 6. To an Asylum/Peeping Tom 2:26 7. The Fight 1:12 8. Sentry’s Murder 1:13 9. Well Mister 1:23 10. God Speed to You 3:04 11. Oat/This Is Your Bivouac 4:31 12. Gresham’s Oats/The Bodies 3:29 13. Not a Chance 2:25 14. Thru the Underbrush 1:02 15. Stay Alive Son 0:59 16. Take Cover/The Attack/Shift Position/Second Attack 5:26 17. Nobody Dies 2:01 18. A Bad Mistake 1:45 19. Good-bye Laurie/Good-bye Tracey 2:16 20. End Title 1:30
Total Time: 46:00
Source Music
Tracks 23, 24, 25 Composed and Performed by Duane Eddy
21. Second Waltz 1:29 22. Two Step 0:47 23. Water From a Bad Well 1:29 24. Ballad of Camden Yates 1:50 25. Fort Canby Dance 3:25
Total Time: 9:11
The Godchild (1974) Music Composed and Conducted by David Shire
26. To the Sentries 1:21 27. Taking a Look 0:57 28. Into Town 1:24 29. “In Here, Nat”/Texas Gringos 1:16 30. Movin’ Out 0:51 31. Umbrellas 1:05 32. Water Hole/Dead Horse 1:37 33. Desert Trek/The Schooner 2:14 34. William Returns 0:52 35. Papa Cress 1:48 36. William Returns/A Baby? 1:45 37. “This Is All That There Is” 1:48 38. Let’s Get Going 2:06 39. Adios/End Title 2:16
FSMレーベルがおくる、MGM映画の西部劇サウンドトラック集第2弾。「北西への道」(音楽:ハーバート・ストサート)、「渡るべき多くの河」(音楽:シリル・モックリッジ、指揮:ミクロス・ローザ)、「独立騎兵隊」(音楽:ハリー・サックマン)、「THE GODCHILD」(音楽:デヴィッド・シャイア)の4作品+1作品「ブラボー砦の脱出」(音楽:ジェフ・アレクサンダー)のテーマ曲を収録した3枚組!2000枚限定盤!
トラックリスト「北西への道」・・・1750年頃のアメリカは英国の統治下にあったが、新大陸に領土拡張を企図するフランスが凶悪なインディアンを手先として、英人開拓者に残虐な妨害を企てていたため紛争が絶えなかった。血の気の多い造船業者の息子の青年画家ランドン・タウンはハーバード大学に在って教師を風刺したため放校されメイン州キタリイの我が家に帰ったが、婚約者エリザベスの父のブロウン牧師と前途の職業のことで衝突し、婚約破棄を申渡され、憤懣の余り酒に勢をかりて植民地監察官ジョンスン卿の悪口をいい危うく逮捕されそうになった。ランドンはジョンスン卿を悪罵して捕らえられていた奮友のハンク・マリナアと街をのがれる途中の街道で、ロバート・ロジャース少佐と知り合った。フランス側のインディアンの根拠地の急襲を計画中のロジャース少佐は二人を説いて、自分の討伐隊に参加させる。討伐隊の目的地は聖フランシスのインディアン部落であったが、途中行程は言語に絶する困難なものであった。監督:キング・ヴィダー。出演: スペンサー・トレイシー、ロバート・ヤング、ウォルター・ブレナン。1940年米。
「渡るべき多くの河」・・・西部の荒々しい開拓者一家の前に、ハンサムな猟師が現れる。一家の娘メアリーはたちまち彼に恋をし、結婚を迫るが……。西部を舞台にしたコメディ・ウェスタン。監督:ロイ・ローランド。出演: ロバート・テイラー、エリノア・パーカー、ヴィクター・マクラグレン。1955年米。
「独立騎兵隊」・・・キャンピー砦に東部から若い中尉が赴任してきた。偶然にも彼の昔の恋人が、砦の将校の一人と婚約していた。その微妙な心理が、隊の作戦に影響を与え、将校は戦死する……。騎兵隊の活躍を描いた冒険活劇。監督:ジョセフ・M・ニューマン。出演: ジョージ・ハミルトン、リチャード・ブーン、チャールズ・ブロンソン、リチャード・チェンバレン。1961年米。
「ブラボー砦の脱出」・・・南軍の捕虜が収容されているブラボー砦を、カーラという女性が訪れた。隊長の娘を訪ねてきたというふれ込みだが、実は、南軍捕虜で婚約者のマーシュ大尉を脱走させるために乗り込んできたのである。捕虜を監督しているローパー大尉は、まんまとカーラの手管にのり、マーシュの脱走を許してしまう。脱走者たちを追いかけ逮捕したのもつかのま、インディアンの大軍が彼らを襲ってきた……。ウェスタンの要素を存分に詰め込んだ傑作。監督:ジョン・スタージェス。出演: ウィリアム・ホールデン、エリノア・パーカー、ジョン・フォーサイス。1953年米。
FSM continues its informal annual tradition of releasing a 3CD set of classic western film scores with a second volume of westerns from the historical M-G-M film library:
Northwest Passage (Book I?Rogers’ Rangers) is the 1940 adventure score by Herbert Stothart, M-G-M’s premier composer in the 1930s and ’40s, presented in nearly complete form from the monaural optical film masters, with a few otherwise lost cues added from the film’s music-and-effects track.
Many Rivers to Cross (1955) is a comedy western score by Cyril J. Mockridge, conducted by no less than Miklos Rozsa, with a song (“The Berry Tree”) by M-G-M songwriter and executive Saul Chaplin. This score survives in glorious three-track stereo from the original 35mm magnetic film.
A Thunder of Drums (1961) is a cavalry adventure score by Harry Sukman, also presented in true stereo. Dominated by grim and martial passages, the music also features romantic strains anticipating Sukman’s scores for TV’s Dr. Kildare.
At the end of disc 3 is a television rarity: David Shire’s 1974 TV movie score for The Godchild (a John Badham-directed adaptation of Three Godfathers, a western story filmed several times earlier). It is a brief and spare work demonstrating the composer’s gift for simplicity and melody?presented in excellent stereo sound.
The film titles for this album were selected in large part from listener responses to our last westerns collection. So keep listening, and keep suggesting titles!
Complete liner notes for this album can be found?for free?online at our website.Limited to 2,000 copies.
*FILM SCORE MONTHLYより抜粋
DISC ONE:
Northwest Passage (Book I?Rogers’ Rangers) (1940)
Music Composed and Conducted by Herbert Stothart
1. Main Title/Portsmouth Harbor 3:48
2. Harvard Pie/Calling on Elizabeth 2:20
3. At the Tavern 1:00
4. What’s This Map? 1:45
5. Rogers Convinces Amherst 0:26
6. Exit to Crown Point 0:50
7. Exit and Addenda to Crown Point 1:07
8. Long Boat Row/French and Indians/French Camp Fires 4:21
9. Through the Rain/Indian Atrocities 2:42
10. First Swamp/Morning 1:29
11. Second Swamp/Leaving Webster Behind 2:10
12. Indian Messengers/Provisions for Men 1:05
13. To the St. Francis River 0:27
14. I Could Capture Quebec/Repeated Instructions 2:42
15. Langdon Is Wounded 2:14
16. I Can Walk 3:05
17. Tired Marchers 0:52
18. There’s the Lake/Take a Vote 1:35
19. Crofton’s Vengeance 1:52
20. Dead Indian’s Head/Avery/Hunt Is Reminiscent/Langdon Drags Back/Friendship 4:42
21. The Last March 1:16
22. Fort Wentworth 1:40
23. Fife and Drums Corps/Inspection 1:57
24. You’ll See a Nation 1:10
25. To Find a Northwest Passage 2:53
Total Time: 50:20
Bonus Tracks
*Contain Sound Effects
26. Main Title* 1:54
27. Over the Hill * 3:37
28. Human Chain* 5:41
29. Elizabeth* 0:34
30. Main Title (original opening) 1:52
31. Main Title (orchestra only) 1:53
Total Time: 15:44
Total Disc Time: 66:12
DISC TWO
Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
Music Composed by Cyril Mockridge, Conducted by Miklos Rozsa
Song: “The Berry Tree” by Saul Chaplin, Sung by Sheb Wooley
1. Main Title 1:53
2. Gourd Seeds 1:56
3. Bushrod Gets Bushed/Here Comes Mary/Barren River 3:55
4. Come See My Cave/In the Cave 4:46
5. Invitation to a Wedding 1:09
6. Luke and Bushrod Fight 1:23
7. Fight Continued 1:06
8. Nail Shoot Part 1 0:46
9. Nail Shoot Part 2 0:40
10. Contrary Mary and Mooning 2:01
11. Bushrod 2:02
12. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green 2:11
13. Thirty Days/Steppin’ Mary 2:02
14. Interrupted Love 2:46
15. Busted Romance 1:28
16. Bushrod Save My Chee-ild/Montage/Came the Dawn 4:04
17. Back to Barren River/Bushrod Finds Sandak/Where’s Mary?/Mary’s in Trouble/Stalking/What Took You So Long? (abridged)/Frontier Woman/Strategy/More Strategy/You Won Me/End Title?New/End Cast 17:52
Total Time: 52:35
Bonus Tracks
18. Main Title (instrumental) 1:50
19. Here Comes Mary (original version) 0:12
20. Mooning (original version) 1:14
21. Arkansas Traveler (Square Dance) (arr. George Bassman) 0:23
22. Wedding Waltz (arr. Robert Franklyn) 1:31
23. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Off to Bowling Green (original versions) 2:41
24. Thirty Days/Steppin’ Along (original versions) 2:18
25. Interrupted Love (original version) 0:40
26. What Took You So Long?/Seeking Shelter 1:19
27. End Title/End Cast (original versions) 1:02
28. Main Title (instrumental, alternate) 1:20
29. So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green (instrumental) 2:11
30. The Berry Tree 0:50
Total Time: 17:59
Escape From Fort Bravo (1953)
Music Composed and Conducted by Jeff Alexander
Song: “Yellow Stripes” by Stan Jones
31. Main Title/Foreword (corrected mix) 2:59
Total Disc Time: 73:46
DISC THREE
A Thunder of Drums (1961)
Music Composed and Conducted by Harry Sukman
1. The Rape/Main Title 2:44
2. Who Goes There? 2:34
3. The Funeral/Step Inside 2:03
4. Tracey/Go Away 2:38
5. Meet Miss Hamilton/No Payment 0:36
6. To an Asylum/Peeping Tom 2:26
7. The Fight 1:12
8. Sentry’s Murder 1:13
9. Well Mister 1:23
10. God Speed to You 3:04
11. Oat/This Is Your Bivouac 4:31
12. Gresham’s Oats/The Bodies 3:29
13. Not a Chance 2:25
14. Thru the Underbrush 1:02
15. Stay Alive Son 0:59
16. Take Cover/The Attack/Shift Position/Second Attack 5:26
17. Nobody Dies 2:01
18. A Bad Mistake 1:45
19. Good-bye Laurie/Good-bye Tracey 2:16
20. End Title 1:30
Total Time: 46:00
Source Music
Tracks 23, 24, 25 Composed and Performed by Duane Eddy
21. Second Waltz 1:29
22. Two Step 0:47
23. Water From a Bad Well 1:29
24. Ballad of Camden Yates 1:50
25. Fort Canby Dance 3:25
Total Time: 9:11
The Godchild (1974)
Music Composed and Conducted by David Shire
26. To the Sentries 1:21
27. Taking a Look 0:57
28. Into Town 1:24
29. “In Here, Nat”/Texas Gringos 1:16
30. Movin’ Out 0:51
31. Umbrellas 1:05
32. Water Hole/Dead Horse 1:37
33. Desert Trek/The Schooner 2:14
34. William Returns 0:52
35. Papa Cress 1:48
36. William Returns/A Baby? 1:45
37. “This Is All That There Is” 1:48
38. Let’s Get Going 2:06
39. Adios/End Title 2:16
Total Time: 21:48
Total Disc Time: 77:12