Fave b'way/ movie score/ soundtrack?

[Bighuey]

I didnt like South Pacific as well as some of the other R+H musicals. It was OK, some of the songs were pretty good but it was kind of blah I thought.

I like Gershwin he did some great stuff. American in Paris was one of his best, I used to have the original records by the Victor Orch. with Gershwin at the piano.

[suzy1124]

OF COURSE, yesss on Gershwin!...

i bet you weren't crazy about South Pacific cause it's a " Chick Flick ? "

for me the song SOME ENCHANTED EVENING still remains a favorite...

i wonder if there's a video of it, it seems so " visual " to me, the Lyrics!

[lbuckman]

Almost anything by Andrew Lloyd Weber.

[suzy1124]

oh yes of course! was listening to " Memories " the other day...

[Bighuey]

I dont think anyone mentioned Jaws. That was a cool soundtrack.

[suzy1124]

Absolutely! Soooo IDENTIFIABLE...just a few chords and you visualize that big fishy instantaneously....

At the time we lived at the beach...i loved swimming all the way out, after the movie never again....

[Nathrad Sheare]

That movie scared the daylights out of me as a kid. My mom would be in the middle of a scary movie and I just HAD to ask if I could watch with her... always ended up regretting it and always ended up going back for more! Maybe that explains a few things about me... Yeah, that was a great soundtrack, too. I also liked the one to the original "When a Stranger Calls" and "Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?" Those were scary, too, capturing the mood of their movies perfectly. I can watch all that stuff now with nothing but a smile on my face.

[Bighuey]

Some of those old horror flicks had great soundtracks. Bernard Herrman's Psycho score is another cool one.

[suzy1124]

terrifying!...also instantaneously reognizable...

[Nathrad Sheare]

One of my favorite scores of the early twentieth century was that of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Lon Chaney. The Switchblade Symphony was awesome there! Talk about legend!

[Bighuey]

A couple more good ones are the original 1926 orchestral score from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and also the modern version by Georgio Moroder. Theres another version on one of those cheap Goodtimes video tapes, really stupid. Its 1930's dance music.

Another I just thought of, is the original score from Birth of a Nation. Ive got the movie, but it has some stupid soundtrack that dosent go with the movie. Ive got the original 1915 score on CD, Ive been trying to figure a way to kick off the stupid stuff and put the original on it. No luck so far.

[Nathrad Sheare]

How many film scores do you own in CD and MP3 format, Bighuey? Just a question.

[Bighuey]

Ive got quite a few. I used to really be into soundtrack music and more or less collected them. Heres the ones I can think of right off the top of my head.
Metropolis -Both versions
Birth of a Nation
Oklahoma
Master of the World
Psycho
Bride of Frankenstein
Day The Earth Stood Still
Original Star Wars
Showboat - Both versions
Victory at Sea
Christine - Dumb movie but great classic rock soundtrack
Samson and Delilah
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Five Pennies- -Not the original but a cool rendition of the songs by The Castle Jazz Band
Compolation of movie songs by Meco
Wizard of Oz also by Meco
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Good The Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Clockwork Orange
2001
2010
Mondo Cane
Miami Vice

Thats the ones I can think of. I used to have a lot more, but lost them over the years.

[Nathrad Sheare]

That's quite a collection! I'll look up the unfamiliar ones. My stash isn't too vast, but I have some great ones, including the soundtrack to the iconic Les Miserables, starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman, the X-Men III soundtrack, and the soundtracks to August Rush, Star Wars: Episode III, and The Phantom of the Opera, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. I'm a big Danny Elfman fan, too.

[Bighuey]

Im not too familiar with the newer soundtrack composers except Jerry Goldsmith. He does some awesome stuff.
Another one I have is Elmer Bernstein's Man With The Golden Arm, a Frank Sinatra flick. One I would like to get is Ferde Grofe's Rocketship XM but the only one I can find is on a record album for 150 dollars. Thats way out of my league. I do have Leith Steven's Destination Moon, its similar to Rocketship XM.