JERRY GOLDSMITH

INTRADA Announces:

ONE LITTLE INDIAN
Music Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 97

The 1973 live-action western One Little Indian features James Garner as Corporal Clint Keyes, a deserter from the Union Army who’s on the run from the man ordered to hang him. After a short-lived horse chase, Keyes is captured and brought to an army outpost where Keyes’ execution is to take place. While Keyes is being held, a group of Cheyenne prisoners is brought in, including a young boy (Clay O’Brien) dubbed Mark, who is discovered to be a white youth captured in an earlier raid. Mark escapes and Keyes breaks out himself, hooking up with Mark after procuring a couple of camels who are AWOL from the U.S. Camel Corps. While in continual pursuit, Keyes develops a grudging friendship with both Mark and the two camels, eventually encountering a widow (Vera Miles) and her daughter (Jodie Foster), whom Keyes tries to convince to take Mark into their family.

One Little Indian was the first of a handful of projects Jerry Goldsmith composed for Walt Disney Studios. Goldsmith wrote a full-blooded, energetic Western score for the film, including an exciting main title which is as exciting as any Western score he ever produced, featuring scratcher combs and plucked string chords, and the plunking of bass electric guitar harkening right out of mid-‘60s Westerns like The Loner. The piece features an explosive treatment of the main character's straightforward theme, accompanied by a boisterous counterline, establishing a bold, exciting sense of adventure. If there’s a Disney touch to the score, it’s in Goldsmith’s sometimes sly, often brash approach to the physical comedy in the film and, in particular, the incongruous presence of the two camels that Keyes and Mark wind up riding. For Keyes’s camel Rosie, Goldsmith has a sitar play the familiar first five notes of Maurice Jarre’s Lawrence of Arabia theme, and he provides a rambunctious, muted cornet tune for the animals. It all comes together into one of Goldsmith's most adventurous, spirited scores of the 70s and one of his strongest Western efforts.

For this album, Bruce Botnick carefully transferred the 2" 24-tracks music elements from the Disney vaults to present the first ever release of the complete score to One Little Indian in flawless stereo sound.

INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 97
Retail Price: 19.99
AVAILABLE April 16
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
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Looks like you beat me to it by seconds Erik

Indeed!

Anyway, I loved the clips and have ordered.

I have very few JG scores and none of his westerns. The clips do sound nice but the quieter moments make me want to wait for a while to decide.

The Baxter cd on the other hand is chock-full of interesting stuff But $25 for 1 cd

Listen to the clip of "Hot Fire" - if that ain't full-blooded, I don't know what is!

Well, quite. Some of the rest didn't sound all that thrilling to me. But then I hate judging a score based on clips - it can never give a good impression of what the album's like. I ordered this one anyway (I don't think there's a Goldsmith western score I don't like) but if the description of the main theme as his best for a western is anythiing to go on then I won't believe their hype. (Nice though it is, it doesn't sound like it's in the same league as 100 Rifles, Take a Hard Ride, Wild Rovers, Hour of the Gun or Rio Conchos.)

Nice release, but not that interesting to me. Pass.

Have I mentioned Lion King yet?

Let's pray that tiny crack Intrada has made in the Great Wall of Disney widens over the course of time!

Plus The Black Cauldron by Bernstein? Must haves will come thick and fast.....

JERRY GOLDSMITH’S QUINTESSENTIAL TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE ARRIVES ON CD

The fantasy anthology film yields a rich, diverse score from the great composer, now presented complete for the first time by Film Score Monthly

Linden, VA – April 14, 2009 – You’re traveling through another dimension... That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, Jerry Goldsmith’s Twilight Zone: The Movie, one of his greatest sci-fi/fantasy scores now on CD in complete form from Film Score Monthly.

Twilight Zone: The Movie was the 1983 anthology film inspired by the classic Rod Serling TV series, and no composer was better suited to score the big-screen adaptation than Jerry Goldsmith. By the early 1980s Goldsmith was a master in every genre of film, from intimate dramas to large-scale adventures, but he was particularly noted for his landmark scores for science fiction: Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien and more – including 1981's Poltergeist (for Twilight Zone: The Movie producer and co-director Steven Spielberg), and the original Twilight Zone series, for which Goldsmith scored classic episodes like “The Invaders.”

With massive technical ability at his disposal, and an unerring gift for drama and melody, Goldsmith wrote brilliant accompaniment for the four segments of Twilight Zone: The Movie, blending the intimate and epic, traditional and modern:

“Time Out,” directed by John Landis and starring Vic Morrow as a bigot facing just desserts, features an astringent, percussive score not unlike Goldsmith’s efforts from the original Twilight Zone TV series.

“Kick the Can,” directed by Steven Spielberg, features a magical, emotional score brimming with warmth as the residents of a retirement home discover an unlikely Fountain of Youth.

“It’s a Good Life,” directed by Joe Dante, spotlights an all-powerful boy who has kidnapped adults for companionship, including a bewildered schoolteacher (Kathleen Quinlan); Goldsmith’s haunting score blends a melancholy theme with ethereal impressionism and shrieking horror for Dante’s postmodern scares.

Finally, “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” directed by George Miller and starring John Lithgow as a terrified airline passenger who sees a monster on the wing, features brilliant psychological scoring with devilish moments (foreshadowing Goldsmith’s approach for Gremlins) and symphonic size.

Twilight Zone: The Movie was released on LP at the time of the film, a program since issued on CD in Japan and Germany. For the first time, FSM presents the complete, chronological score, with bonus tracks of the film’s songs (“Nights Are Forever,” by Goldsmith as featured on the LP, and “Anesthesia” by Joseph Williams, previously unreleased) plus album edits of relevant cues. The CD is carefully designed so that the LP sequence can be programmed, if so desired.

The complete score has been newly restored from the first-generation Warner Bros. masters by Mike Matessino in cooperation with Bruce Botnick, Goldsmith’s longtime recording engineer and colleague who has mastered this CD. Matessino and Jeff Bond provide the authoritative liner notes.

This quintessential Goldsmith masterwork is available now from Screen Archives Entertainment at www.screenarchives.com.

Check it out at http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=12234

WANT. :grabby:

Wait. It's the same as the one I already have?
Shut up me.