John Barry – The Knack...And How To Get It (Original Motion Picture Score)

 

The Knack …and How to Get It is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, and Donal Donnelly. The screenplay by Charles Wood is based on the 1962 play "The Knack: A Comedy in Three Acts" by Ann Jellicoe. The film is considered emblematic of the Swinging London cultural phenomenon. It was the first movie appearance of Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling.

John Barry contributed the jazzy score, which features a memorable organ solo by Alan Haven.

1 The Knack - Main Theme 3:05

2 Here Comes Nancy Now! 2:52

3 Photo Strip 2:37

4 Three On A Bed 4:40

5 Blues And Out 2:47

6 The Knack 2:43

7 And How To Get It 3:04

8 Something's Up! 2:10

9 Doors & Bikes And Things 2:38

10 Ecstasy! 2:30

11 End Title - The Knack 2:35

The Knack...And How To Get It

Heavy Metal (Music From The Motion Picture) The Soundtrack & The Score

 

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian adult animated science fantasy anthology film directed by Gerald Potterton (in his director debut) and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine, which was the basis for the film. It starred the voices of Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky.

The film is an anthology of various science-fiction and fantasy stories tied together by a single theme of an evil force that is "the sum of all evils". It was adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film features a great deal of graphic violence, sexuality, and nudity. Its production was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments.

1 Sammy Hagar– Heavy Metal 3:50

2 Riggs– Heartbeat 4:20

3 Devo– Working In The Coal Mine 2:48

4 Blue Öyster Cult– Veteran Of The Psychic Wars 4:48

5 Cheap Trick– Reach Out 3:35

6 Don Felder– Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride) 5:00

7 Donald Fagen– True Companion 5:02

8 Nazareth – Crazy (A Suitable Case For A Treatment) 3:24

9 Riggs– Radar Rider 2:40

10 Journey– Open Arms 3:20

11 Grand Funk Railroad– Queen Bee 3:11

12 Cheap Trick– I Must Be Dreamin' 5:37

13 Black Sabbath– The Mob Rules 2:43

14 Don Felder– All Of You 4:18

15 Trust – Prefabricated 2:59

16 Stevie Nicks– Blue Lamp 3:48

The Soundtrack

The Score by Elmer Bernstein

Music From and Inspired By The Motion Picture Beautiful Thing - music by The Mamas and The Papas

 

Soundtrack of the movie "Beautiful Thing" directed by Hettie MacDonald (1996) and based on the play of the same name written by Jonathan Harvey.

1 Mama Cass*– It's Getting Better 3:00

2 Mama Cass*– One Way Ticket 2:16

3 Mama Cass*– California Earthquake 3:21

4 Mama Cass*– Welcome To The World 2:18

5 Mama Cass*– Make Your Own Kind Of Music 2:23

6 The Mamas & The Papas– Creeque Alley 3:16

7 The Mamas & The Papas– Dream A Little Dream Of Me 3:12

8 Mama Cass*– Move In A Little Closer Baby 2:38

9 The Mamas & The Papas– California Dreamin' 2:10

10 The Mamas & The Papas– Monday Monday 3:21

11 The Mamas & The Papas– I Saw Her Again Last Night 3:14

12 The Mamas & The Papas– Words Of Love 2:15

13 The Mamas & The Papas– Dedicated To The One I Love 2:59

14 The Mamas & The Papas– Look Through My Window 3:34

15 The Mamas & The Papas– Go Where You Wanna Go 2:27

16 John Altman– Beautiful Thing Medley 8:00

Beautiful Thing

Alfred Newman – How Green Was My Valley (1941)

 

How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.

It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.

The soundtrack was composed and conducted by Alfred Newman, who, at the time, had acquired a solid reputation as a musician with a marked intelligence in supplying films with music. In his career he had amassed a total of 46 Oscar nominations, resulting in nine Oscars, the most so far won by any individual in film history.

1 Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare 0:12

2 Main Title/Huw's Theme 2:50

3 The Family And Bronwen 6:30

4 The Strike/Mother And Huw In Ice 4:42

5 Treasure Island/The Spring Birds 3:51

6 Angharad And Mister Gruffydd 2:08

7 Command From The Queen 1:50

8 Huw Walks Among The Daffodils 3:29

9 Angharad With The Minister 1:06

10 Love Denied 4:11

11 School 1:35

12 Huw's Lesson/The Mine Tragedy 3:06

13 Two More Brothers Leave 1:52

14 The House On The Hill/Gossip 6:57

15 Goodbyes 1:31

16 Huw Finds His Father 0:53

17 Finale/End Theme 1:42

How Green Was My Valley

Blast From The Past (Music From The Original Motion Picture)

 

Tommy Henriksen– I See The Sun

Cherry Poppin' Daddies– So Long Toots

Sonichrome– Honey Please

Block – Rhinoceros

Dishwalla– Pretty Babies

Everclear– I Will Buy You A New Life

R.E.M.– It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Squirrel Nut Zippers– Trou Macacq

Flying Neutrinos– Mr. Zoot Suit

Perry Como– It's A Good Day

Randy Newman– Political Science

Celeste Prince– A Little Belief

Steve Dorff– Adam & Eve Love Theme

Blast From The Past

Fumio Hayasaka – Seven Samurai (bonus track version)

 

1954 movie release. A veteran samurai who has fallen on hard times answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers six other samurai to help him. They teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and the townspeople supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Soundtrack composed , conducted, orchestrated by – Fumio Hayasaka

Orchestrated by – Masaru Sato

1 The Seven Samurai (Main Title) 3:17

2 To The Little Watermill 1:00

3 Samurai Search 0:50

4 Kanbei & Katushiro / Kikuchiyo’s Mambo 3:43

5 Rikichi’s Tears / White Rice 2:09

6 Two Search For Samurai 1:31

7 Gorobei 2:18

8 Let's Get To It 1:05

9 Fishing For Slippery Fish 1:44

10 Six Samurai 2:51

11 Extraordinary Man 1:13

12 Morning Departure 1:02

13 Journey Landscape / Our Stronghold 2:52

14 Wild Warrior’s Coming 0:35

15 Seven Men Completed 1:25

16 Katushiro & Shino 2:44

17 Katsushiro Come Back 0:11

18 Bed Change 0:58

19 In The Forest Of The Water God 1:34

20 Wheat Field 0:28

21 Kabei's Anger 2:16

22 Interlude 5:19

23 Harvesting 2:06

24 Rikichi’s Trouble 1:51

25 Heihachi & Rikichi 0:58

26 Farm Village Scenery 2:35

27 Weak Insects Into Samurai Ways 1:50

28 Foreboding Of Bandits 0:26

29 To The Night Attack 0:56

30 Flag 0:21

31 Sudden Confrontation 0:25

32 Magnificent Samurai 2:30

33 Bandits Sighted 1:00

34 Kikuchiyo Rises To The Occasion 0:50

35 Reward 1:07

36 Tryst 1:02

37 Manzo & Shino 1:03

38 Rice Planting Song 1:22

39 Ending 0:43

Bonus Tracks

40 I Live In Fear (Main Titles) 1:49

41 Late Night Guitar 1:09

42 Slow Mambo 1:44

43 Slow Rhumba 3:14

44 Preview Main Theme 1:52

45 Star Music 1:18

46 Mambo Melancholia 2:17

47 Duck Mambo 3:19

48 End Titles 0:50

Seven Samurai

Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (Lift To The Scaffold) - original soundtrack (Complete Recordings)

This soundtrack with the musical cues for Louis Malle's 1958 film Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud was recorded at Le Poste Parisien Studio in Paris on December 4 and 5, 1957.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time, suggested asking Miles Davis to create the film's soundtrack - possibly inspired by the Modern Jazz Quartet's recording for Roger Vadim's Sait-On Jamais (Does One Ever Know), released a few months earlier in 1957.

Davis was booked to perform at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris for November 1957. Rappeneau introduced him to Malle, and Davis agreed to record the music after attending a private screening. On December 4, he brought his four sidemen to the recording studio without having had them prepare anything. Davis only gave the musicians a few rudimentary harmonic sequences he had assembled in his hotel room, and, once the plot was explained, the band improvised without any pre-composed theme, while edited loops of the musically relevant film sequences were projected in the background.

The soundtrack was not released on its own in the USA but ten songs from this soundtrack were released as one side of the album Miles Davis - Jazz Track which received a 1960 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Performance, Solo Or Small Group.

This soundtrack might also be referred to as Elevator To The Gallows (literal translation of the French title), also known as Frantic in the US, also known as Lift To The Scaffold in the UK.

Original release date: 1958; recording period: Dec 1957

Miles Davis, Trumpet; Barney Wilen, Tenor Saxophone; René Urtreger, Piano; Pierre Michelot, Bass; Kenny Clarke, Drums

This complete recordings version was released in 1988. The original soundtrack to the film, as mixed and edited in 1958, can be heard in tracks 17 to 26.

1 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 1) 2:25

2 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 2) 5:20

3 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 3) (Générique) 2:47

4 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Élysées (Take 4) (Florence Sur Les Champs Élyseés) 2:59

5 Assassinat (Take 1) (Visite Du Vigile) 2:02

6 Assassinat (Take 2) (Julien Dans L'Ascenseur) 2:10

7 Assassinat (Take 3) (L'Assassinat De Carala) 2:10

8 Motel (Dîner Au Motel) 3:56

9 Final (Take 1) 3:05

10 Final (Take 2) 3:00

11 Final (Take 3) (Chez Le Photographe Du Motel) 4:04

12 Ascenseur (Évasion De Julien) 1:57

13 Le Petit Bal (Take 1) 2:40

14 Le Petit Bal (Take 2) (Au Bar Du Petit Bac) 2:53

15 Séquence Voiture (Take 1) 2:56

16 Séquence Voiture (Take 2) (Sur L'Autoroute) 2:16

17 Générique 2:45

18 L'Assassinat De Carala 2:10

19 Sur L'Autoroute 2:15

20 Julien Dans L'Ascenseur 2:07

21 Florence Sur Les Champs-Élyseés 2:50

22 Dîner Au Motel 3:58

23 Évasion De Julien 0:53

24 Visite Du Vigile 2:00

25 Au Bar Du Petit Bac 2:50

26 Chez Le Photographe Du Motel 3:50

Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud