NORTHWEST PASSAGE +3 Herbert Stothart/David Shire 3CD

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Northwest Passage: Classic Western Scores From M-G-M, Vol. 2 (1940-1974) (3CD) (2009)


CD:

Music: Composed by Herbert Stothart
Label: Film Score Monthly FSMCD Vol. 12 No. 18
Condition: sealed
Comment: Limited edition of 2000 copies. 3 CDs.


FSM continues its informal annual tradition of releasing a 3CD set of classic western film scores with a second volume of westerns from the historical M-G-M film library:

Northwest Passage (Book I—Rogers’ Rangers) is the 1940 adventure score by Herbert Stothart, M-G-M’s premier composer in the 1930s and ’40s, presented in nearly complete form from the monaural optical film masters, with a few otherwise lost cues added from the film’s music-and-effects track.

Many Rivers to Cross (1955) is a comedy western score by Cyril J. Mockridge, conducted by no less than Miklós Rózsa, with a song (“The Berry Tree”) by M-G-M songwriter and executive Saul Chaplin. This score survives in glorious three-track stereo from the original 35mm magnetic film.

A Thunder of Drums (1961) is a cavalry adventure score by Harry Sukman, also presented in true stereo. Dominated by grim and martial passages, the music also features romantic strains anticipating Sukman’s scores for TV’s Dr. Kildare.

At the end of disc 3 is a television rarity: David Shire’s 1974 TV movie score for The Godchild (a John Badham-directed adaptation of Three Godfathers, a western story filmed several times earlier). It is a brief and spare work demonstrating the composer’s gift for simplicity and melody—presented in excellent stereo sound.

The film titles for this album were selected in large part from listener responses to our last westerns collection. So keep listening, and keep suggesting titles!

Finally: our previous two western collections, centered respectively around The Unforgiven and The Naked Spur, promptly sold out. We have increased the manufacturing run on this volume to 2,000 copies—but don’t delay!

- FSM


Tracklisting:

Disc 1


NORTHWEST PASSAGE (Book I: Rogers’ Rangers) (1940) by Herbert Stothart

01 Main Title/Portsmouth Harbor (03:48)
02 Harvard Pie/Calling on Elizabeth (02:20)
03 At the Tavern (01:00)
04 What’s This Map? (01:45)
05 Rogers Convinces Amherst (00:26)
06 Exit to Crown Point (00:50)
07 Exit and Addenda to Crown Point (01:07)
08 Long Boat Row/French and Indians/French Camp Fires (04:21)
09 Through the Rain/Indian Atrocities (02:42)
10 First Swamp/Morning (01:29)
11 Second Swamp/Leaving Webster Behind (02:10)
12 Indian Messengers/Provisions for Men (01:05)
13 To the St. Francis River (00:27)
14 I Could Capture Quebec/Repeated Instructions (02:42)
15 Langdon Is Wounded (02:14)
16 I Can Walk (03:05)
17 Tired Marchers (00:52)
18 There’s the Lake/Take a Vote (01:35)
19 Crofton’s Vengeance (01:52)
20 Dead Indian’s Head/Avery/Hunt Is Reminiscent/Langdon Drags Back/Friendship (04:42)
21 The Last March (01:06)
22 Fort Wentworth (01:40)
23 Fife and Drums Corps/Inspection (01:57)
24 You’ll See a Nation (01:10)
25 To Find a Northwest Passage (02:53)

BONUS TRACKS

26 Main Title* (01:54)
27 Over the Hill* (03:37)
28 Human Chain* (05:41)
29 Elizabeth* (00:34)
30 Main Title [Oginal Oening] (01:52)
31 Main Title [Orchestra Only] (01:53)

*Contain Sound Effects



Disc 2


MANY RIVERS TO CROSS (1955) by Cyril Mockridge

01 Main Title (01:53)
02 Gourd Seeds (01:56)
03 Bushrod Gets Bushed/Here Comes Mary/Barren River (03:55)
04 Come See My Cave/In the Cave (04:46)
05 Invitation to a Wedding (01:09)
06 Luke and Bushrod Fight (01:23)
07 Fight Continued (01:06)
08 Nail Shoot, Pt. 1 (00:46)
09 Nail Shoot, Pt. 2 (00:40)
10 Contrary Mary and Mooning (02:01)
11 Bushrod (02:02)
12 So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green (02:11)
13 Thirty Days/Steppin’ Mary (02:02)
14 Interrupted Love (02:46)
15 Busted Romance (01:28)
16 Bushrod Save My Chee-ild/Montage/Came the Dawn (04:04)
17 Back to Barren River/Bushrod Finds Sandak/Where’s Mary?/Mary’s in Trouble/Stalking/What Took You So Long? (abridged)/Frontier Woman/Strategy/More Strategy/You Won Me/End Title—New/End Cast (17:52)

BONUS TRACKS

18 Main Title [Instrumental Version] (01:50)
19 Here Comes Mary [Original Version] (00:12)
20 Mooning [Original Version] (01:14)
21 Arkansas Traveler (Square Dance) (00:23)
Arranged by George Bassman
22 Wedding Waltz (01:31)
Arranged by Robert Franklyn
23 So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Off to Bowling Green [Original Version] (02:41)
24 Thirty Days/Steppin’ Along [Original Version] (02:18)
25 Interrupted Love [Original Version] (00:40)
26 What Took You So Long?/Seeking Shelter (01:19)
27 End Title/End Cast [Original Version] (01:02)
28 Main Title [Instrumental Version, Alternate Version] (01:20)
29 So Long Mary/Mary’s Vocal/Sandak Sings/Off to Bowling Green [Instrumental Version] (02:11)
30 The Berry Tree (00:50)

Song: “The Berry Tree” by Saul Chaplin, Sung by Sheb Wooley


ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO (1953) by Jeff Alexander

31 Main Title/Foreword [Corrected Mix] (02:59)

Song: “Yellow Stripes” by Stan Jones



Disc 3


A THUNDER OF DRUMS (1961) by Harry Sukman

01 The Rape/Main Title (02:44)
02 Who Goes There? (02:34)
03 The Funeral/Step Inside (02:03)
04 Tracey/Go Away (02:38)
05 Meet Miss Hamilton/No Payment (00:38)
06 To an Asylum/Peeping Tom (02:26)
07 The Fight (01:12)
08 Sentry’s Murder (01:13)
09 Well Mister (01:23)
10 God Speed to You (03:04)
11 Oat/This Is Your Bivouac (04:31)
12 Gresham’s Oats/The Bodies (03:29)
13 Not a Chance (02:25)
14 Thru the Underbrush (01:02)
15 Stay Alive Son (00:59)
16 Take Cover/The Attack/Shift Position/Second Attack (05:26)
17 Nobody Dies (02:01)
18 A Bad Mistake (01:45)
19 Good-bye Laurie/Good-bye Tracey (02:16)
20 End Title (01:30)

SOURCE MUSIC

21 Second Waltz (01:09)
22 Two Step (00:47)
23 Water From a Bad Well* (01:29)
24 Ballad of Camden Yates* (01:50)
25 Fort Canby Dance* (03:25)

* Composed and Performed by Duane Eddy


THE GODCHILD (1974) by David Shire

26 To the Sentries (01:21)
27 Taking a Look (00:57)
28 Into Town (01:24)
29 “In Here, Nat”/Texas Gringos (01:16)
30 Movin’ Out (00:51)
31 Umbrellas (01:05)
32 Water Hole/Dead Horse (01:37)
33 Desert Trek/The Schooner (02:14)
34 William Returns (00:52)
35 Papa Cress (01:48)
36 William Returns/A Baby? (01:45)
37 “This Is All That There Is” (01:48)
38 Let’s Get Going (02:06)
39 Adios/End Title (02:16)

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