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Henry Mancini / Charlie Strause, "Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack THE MOLLY
MAGUIRES, Kritzerland #KR 20021-3 (2012).[Limited Edition CD
Release,
1500 copies]
Tracklist:
1. Theme from The Molly Maguires
(New Day in 1876)
2. The Mollys Strike
3. Main Title
4. Room and Board
5. Sandwiches and Tea
6. Work Montage
7. Pennywhistle Jig
8. A Hard Day’s Work
9. On Your Knees
10. Jamie and Mary
11. Trip to Town
12. Strike Two/Strike Three
13. The Hills of Yesterday
14. There’s More
15. The Mollys Strike Again
16. A Suit for Grandpa
17. Kehoe Lights Up/The Last Strike
18. The End
Bonus tracks:
19. Fiddle and Fife (film version)
20. A Brew with the Boys (film version)
Charles Strouse Rejected Score:
21. Sabotage
22. Fuse
23. Work in the Mine
24. Bleak Street/To Find a Room/To Work
25. The Long Walk
26. Window Shopping
27. Truant Picnic-ers
28. The Last Rites
29. The Company Store (Parts I and II)
30. Arson
31. End Title
Additional bonus tracks by Henry Mancini:
32. Fiddle and Fife (album version)
33. A Brew with the Boys (album version)
34. Pennywhistle Jig (album version)
From the BSX website:
The Molly Maguires was a big-budget drama from Paramount
Pictures, with
powerhouse stars, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, and
Samantha Eggar, a
terrific director, Martin Ritt (Hud, The Spy Who Came In
From The Cold
and many others), and the screenwriter of Fail Safe and
John
Frankenheimer's The Train, the great Walter Bernstein. The
film takes
place in the Pennsylvania coal country in 1876 and is
loosely based on
the true story of a small band of Irish coal
miners/terrorists called
The Molly Maguires.
For the film, composer Henry Mancini composed one of his
finest scores,
filled with lush melodies and expert evocative themes.
Whether
depicting an early morning at the mines (the astonishing
opening cue),
or the terrorist activities, or the blossoming love
between Eggar and
Harris, Mancini's score is right up there with his
greatest, including
such masterpieces as Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, Days
of Wine and
Roses, Hatari!, Two For The Road, and many others.
The Molly Maguires was originally issued on LP, and made
its CD debut
on Bay Cities in the early 1990s. For this new release, we
had access
to the original multi-track tapes stored in the Paramount
vault. We are
thrilled to present the entire score as recorded by
Mancini, newly
mixed in superb sound, and which features several cues
that were left
off the original album.
When the tapes were pulled for The Molly Maguires, we were
delighted to
find that the tapes for Charles Strouse's original score
were there and
after a disastrous preview, it was decided his score would
be replaced.
Strouse, most well known for his Broadway musicals, had
dabbled in film
scoring with Bonnie and Clyde and The Night They Raided
Minsky's.
Strouse's complete score is included on the CD. The music
is very
interesting, and it's fascinating to hear Strouse's
completely opposite
approach to the one Mancini would ultimately take. There
is some truly
lovely music here.
George Duning / Henry Mancini, "Dear Brigitte / Mr. Hobbs
Takes a
Vacation", Kritzerland #KR 20022-8 (2012).[2-in-1 CD,
Limited Release of
1000 copies]
Tracklist:
DEAR BRIGITTE
1. Main Title / San Francisco
2. The Captain
3. Mad Prof / Disturbed Prof
4. Magical Moment
5. Wise Dog / Erasmus the Brain
6. Is It a Trick?
7. At the Bank / The Error / Pan Flips
8. Puzzled Cap'n/Final
9. Hey Dad
10. Capín Lights Pipe/You're Finished
11. Number Eleven / Fund Building / Swank Café
12. She Sank
13. B.B.'s Letter
14. On to B.B.'s
15. Brigitte's Gift/Erasmus Kissed
16. Villain Upjohn / End Title
17. End Title (alternate)
MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION
18. Main Title
19. A Month Off
20. Cream Puff
21. Up His Nose
22. Early to Rise
23. Roger and Peggy
24. Boompa/Night Night
25. Something for Lauri
26. Honest Joe/The Quiet Side
27. Rudders and Sails
28. All Clear/Red Cap
29. Barn Swallow
30. About Last Night
31. Farewell to Vacation
32. Cast and End Title
BONUS TRACKS
33. B Cups and Braces
34. Yacht Club Hop
35. Side Winder
36. Hobbs' Bigtime Swing
37. Cream Puff (combo demo)
38. Mr. Hobbs' Theme (combo demo)
Notes on the Mancini inclusion from the CD ordering
website:
"Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" was previously released by
Intrada – it
sold out and hasn’t been available for years now. The
Intrada
presentation put all the tracks in strict film order, but
because there
were quite a few source music tracks in a row, we felt
that interrupted
the actual score too much, so we’ve switched it up a bit
and moved some
of the source music cues to the bonus track section.
Again, there is a
bit of wow and flutter here and there, but we’ve
remastered the sound,
cleaned up some little sound problems from the previous
release, and
put a few of the really short tracks together, which, for
us, makes for
a more seamless listening experience.
[Limited Edition CD Reissue]
Composed & conducted by Henry Mancini.
Tracklist:
1 Two For The Road - Main
Title
2 Window To The
Past
3 Wheels Of Our
Own
4 Hitting The
Road
5 Happy Barefoot Boy
(Film Version)
6 Chicken
Pox
7 Indispensable
Woman
8
Hitchhike
9 First
Hotel
10 Breakfast Is
Served
11
Bonfire
12 Hamburger
Pills
13 Religious
Reasons
14 Something For Audrey
(Film Version)
15 The Chaser (Film
Version)
16 Not So
Lovely
17 It Doesn't
Show
18
Beachy
19 Asbestos
Skin
20 Early
Tea
21 The Lovely Life (Film
Version)
22 Sow
23 I'm
Back
24 Stopping To
Think
25 Two For The Road -
Finale
