DAVE GRUSIN

not shocking to me at all he didn't have a thread but glad you started one

For sure Thomas. Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a favorite of mine. My favorite CD from Grusin is actually a gig he did on Gershwin. Nicely done

comes from the jazz world

FSM: TOOTSIE
Music composed by Dave Grusin

Tootsie (1982) is one of the most famous comedies in Hollywood history, with a love song (“It Might Be You”) that has become a pop standard. Yet the soundtrack has been virtually unavailable on CD—until now.

Tootsie starred Dustin Hoffman as an unemployed actor who dresses in drag to land a role on a soap opera. But when his outspoken feminist creation, “Dorothy Michaels,” becomes a media sensation, he grows desperate to stop leading a double life—and to confess his love for his colleague, played by Jessica Lange. With a masterful blend of drama, comedy, contemporary realism and social commentary, and brilliant supporting performances by Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Bill Murray, Charles Durning and director Sydney Pollack (as Hoffman’s apoplectic agent), Tootsie is justifiably a classic.

The pitch-perfect score to Tootsie was by Dave Grusin, Pollack’s longtime collaborator on films such as The Yakuza, Three Days of the Condor, Bobby Deerfield and The Electric Horseman (and later, Havana, The Firm and Random Hearts). Tootsie’s unique combination of laughs with serious subject matter required an original approach, and Grusin elevated the film by using the modern jazz fusion style he had helped create in his career as a recording artist. Upbeat, energetic and contemporary, jazz fusion was the perfect choice for Tootsie, and Grusin himself performed the keyboards.

Tootsie is also a masterful example of songwriting for film. The two songs—the pop-standard “It Might Be You” and Caribbean-flavored “Tootsie”—recur in different guises to advance the story, with sensitive lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and vocals by Stephen Bishop. With music by Grusin himself, the songs emerge seamlessly from the score’s thematic material and could not be more appropriate or essential.

Tootsie was released on LP at the time of the film on Warner Bros. Records but has been released on CD only in Japan. FSM’s premiere U.S. CD features not only the album program (a combination of the original soundtrack and re-recorded selections), but a bonus section of additional score cues and alternate versions—all in vibrant stereo. Liner notes are by Jeff Bond and Lukas Kendall with new and archival interview quotes from the participants.

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_det … 82/TOOTSIE

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/det … 0/Tootsie/

-Erik-

Awesome that they retained the LP program! I have fond memories of the film from my youth, but I can't remember much of the score, to be honest.

Tom - Can I make a suggestion? When you link to a music file you might want to put something like CLICK HERE TO PLAY >> MAIN TITLE FROM MULHOLLAND FALLS or something like that. Right now the link looks like a header and I'm sure many of your readers have no idea that that is a link to a a clip from the score.

And you really need to fix your formatting. The track titles are bleeding into your right hand column.

-Erik-

Well I thought I had it but now the player doesn't work anymore. I wonder what I did to that

http://sdtom.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/d … love-1965/

Completed review. Another nice release from Kritzerland

The Milagro Beanfield War should really see a proper release, given that it is an Oscar winner. There's little snippets on YouTube if that interests anyone.

Love that theme. I haven't heard the rest of the score, though.

I ask again -- has anyone ever tried to make a decent playlist out of the 25th anniversary disc of GOONIES?

Cover the core thematic material, be diverse with up-tempo and low-tempo periodically, have some sort of arc, remove the more 'functional' bits, stay at appr. 40-50 minutes.

I'll probably try one myself when I get the time.

Here it is:

1. Fratelli Chase
2. Map and Willie
3. The Goondocks
4. Cellar and Sloth
5. Plumbing
6. Wishing Well and the Fratellis Find Coin
7. Mikey's Vision
8. They're Here and Skull Cave Chase
9. Playing the Bones
10. Water Slide and Galleon
11. One Eyed Willie
12. Treasure, Data & Mouth and Walk the Plank
13. Sloth & Chunk
14. Mama & Sloth
15. The Fighting Fratellis, Sloth's Choice and Ultimate Booby Trap
16. The Reunion and Fratellis on Beach
17. No Firme and Pirate Ship
Total Running Time: 44:16

Depending on how nostalgic you are about the film, you might include "The 'It,' Fifty Dollar Bills and a Stiff" after "Cellar and Sloth." It's not my favorite track away from the film, but I can see why someone would want it included.

OK, I mostly kept your track listing, christopher. The only changes I did was to insert "Pee Break and Kissing Tunnel" between "16. The Reunion and Fratellis on Beach" and "18. No Firme and Pirate Ship", since it was a bit massive and jaunty towards the end of the album -- it needed a slower track there. Plus, I also tagged on the "End Credits" as the last track, which felt like a natural repetition and closure -- the new total being 50:00, exactly. I think I have a pretty decent GOONIES album now, in lack of a composer-produced album.

Thanks again for doing the rough work!

Yeah, if I REALLY had a lot of time, I would probably try to shuffle the cues around a bit, to remove it from film order into something else -- in my purely amateur way. But for now, I'll keep it like this. I think the "End Credits" cue is one of the best of the whole score; nothing from the 80s is "dated" for me -- I dig it!