JOHN WILLIAMS

CINDERELLA LIBERTY
Composed and Conducted by JOHN WILLIAMS

INTRADA Special Collection Volume 70

Mark Rydell’s Cinderella Liberty (20th Century Fox, 1973) is a quintessential film of the Seventies: low-key, character-driven, gritty and realistic, sometimes tragic, often moving. The story finds seaman John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) adrift in Seattle and trolling the local bars when he encounters Maggie Paul (Marsha Mason), a pool hustler and hooker. Baggs in fact has skills of his own and winds up hustling Maggie by beating her at pool and winning an evening with her free of charge. Once he enters Maggie’s squalid apartment, Baggs finds that she has a teenaged African American son, Doug (Kirk Calloway). Although Doug is openly hostile to Baggs, it’s also clear that Maggie is barely providing for the young man. Baggs becomes very much involved romantically with Maggie over the course of the story, but what emerges is that the real bond is between Baggs and Doug.

John Williams was Rydell's composer of choice for Cinderella Liberty, having previously worked on The Reivers and The Cowboys. Cinderella Liberty afforded Williams an opportunity to break away from the symphonic direction he was headed, in fact the style is not symphonic but lies somewhere between lounge and blues. Toots Thielemans’ harmonica adds a home-cooked vibe that reflects the honest, moral simplicity of James Caan’s character, while Williams’ sophisticated string arrangements and rhythm sections add the lounge sensibility that speaks to Mason’s background as a woman used to manipulating her male clients. Otherwise, Williams created a number of pseudo-source cues for the streets and bars of Seattle, and the mix of score, source and songs makes Cinderella Liberty one of the composer’s most eclectic albums. That it works seamlessly with the film (both John and Paul Williams earned Oscar nominations) is yet another demonstration of Williams’ mastery of the form and a reminder that while his rich symphonic works may be the ones for which this legendary composer is best remembered, he has always been capable of delivering great film music in just about any style necessary.

Previously available from 20th Century Fox Records, Intrada's premiere release on CD features the original contents of the LP program, completely remastered.

This release is limited to 3000 copies.

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-Erik-

May I just barge in here and disagree with everyone regarding Erik's Williams suite?

It ain't nice!

It ain't great!!

It ain't beautiful!!!
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It's frickin' awesome!!!!!!!!!

One of the best edited compilations of themes I've ever heard, and how can you go wrong when the maestro himself is the writer?

Keep going the composer suites please

I agree! We love 'em!

I just got a composer promo of the original 3:10 to Yuma (Glenn Ford, Van Heflin) and none other than John Williams was involved in it! Not composer, which was George Duning, but he did some conducting. This was the 50's so it had to be a really early gig. At least I have something few do.
Tom

Really? That's cool man!

Good ol' Johnny did some conducting for George Duning...Where it all began n'est pas?

How can George Duning produce a composer promo!? He retired in the early 80s and passed away in 2000!

If there's one score that should be played when the apocalypse comes, then it should surely be The Fury.

I need say only.....

MECO

nuff said!

Seriously though D, I'd just listen to Erik whom I consider this boards foremost Star Wars music expert.

I highly recommend Gerhardt's Star Wars re-recordings for the Classic Film Scores series.

The Star Wars album (Music from John Williams Classic Filmscores) also contains my favorite re-recording of all time... the brilliant 21 minute Close Encounters of the Third Kind suite. It's mind blowing.
http://www.amazon.com/Close-Encounters- … pd_sim_m_1

Gerhardt's Return of the Jedi is also excellent. I love his version of "Into The Trap; Fight in the Dungeon" The recording by K.E. Wilkinson is TOP NOTCH.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Return- … B000003F46

Hear selections during Show #3 of my Charles Gerhardt Special
http://www.geocities.com/cinematicsound/gerhardt.html

My favorite Star Wars compilation album is The Star Wars Trilogy with Varujan Kojian conducting The Utah Symphony Orchestra. Perfect performances and top quality sound. It will give your stereo system the ultimate test.
http://www.amazon.ca/Star-Wars-Trilogy- … B00000153G

Some might point you to John Williams' The Star Wars Trilogy album performed by the Skywalker Symphony but I find the performances dull and the conducting... yes, the conducting lazy. Great sound though. The only solid piece is The Imperial March!

-Erik-

He is the new brazilian football star, isn't he?

Nothing yet.



-Erik-

Dood... if you don't like disco then stay the hell away!

-Erik-

A question for Fury fans...

Original tracks or album recording?

I've never heard the OST, but from what I gather it's pretty much a given I would prefer the album recording. (Which is fantastic, so I can't see the original being much better in terms of recording quality.)

Capricorn One is a good example of where I'd much rater listen to the album version (the one recorded with the National Philharmonic) than the OST, which doesn't make for a very pleasant listen.