Ennio Morricone Music

[Deadsea7777]

Is there somebody here that likes Ennio Morricone music ?

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

I'm only familiar with Ennio Morricone through the "Man With No Name" Spaghetti Western series.

But, hell yeah..........I LOVE that stuff, really cool music!! 😎



Drew

 

[slap'n'ticklee]

Ohh yeah.

Some of what I've heard, is beautiful, haunting and atmospheric... love it when music evokes emotions within me 🙂

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Honestly I've never heard any....would like to sometime though.

 

[featherfingers]

For your viewing and listening pleasure:
"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly"
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"Fistful Of Dollars"
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There's a lot more but I don't want to overdo it.

 

[drew70]

I thought "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was by Hugo Montenegro. Same guy who wrote that cool theme from "I Dream of Jeannie" that everybody remembers.

 

[featherfingers]

I thought "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" was by Hugo Montenegro. Same guy who wrote that cool theme from "I Dream of Jeannie" that everybody remembers.

Hey, Drew! Hugo Montenegro did a 'cover version' of the song. Ennio Morricone was the man who originally composed it for the film.

I found the following at http://www.spaceagepop.com/monteneg.htm:

Montenegro moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and began working in the studio system. Belafonte helped get him the job of scoring Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown. He also worked for RCA, producing a series of albums that included both his soundtracks and covers of others'. His 1968 recording of Ennio Morricone's theme from the classical Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, featuring whistling by Muzzy Marcellino's, sold over a million copies and hit #2 on the Top Ten chart as a single. Montenegro's version also features an electric violin (played by Elliott Fisher), a piccolo trumpet (played by Manny Klein), an electronic harmonica, an ocarina, a vocal group, and Montenegro himself grunting nonsense Italian-sounding syllables.

 

[drew70]

Thanks for the clarification, Frankie! Yeah, once I actually listened to the clip you posted, I could tell it wasn't the same version as the one by Montenegro that appears on my Time/Life "Great Instrumentals" CD set. 😀

Great information, Frankie! And yeah, Morricone's music is quite distinct. I like it.

 

[ChosenofMystra]

Thanks Featherfingers! While not exactly my tankard of mead, that music still has its charms nonetheless 🙂

 

[featherfingers]

Great information, Frankie! And yeah, Morricone's music is quite distinct. I like it.

I'm glad you liked those videos, Drew. I watch "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" just to hear the music. Which reminds me...

...Deadsea7777? In the scene where Eli Wallach's character gets the crap beaten out of him by that big guy, the prisoners outside are singing a song to drown out the sound of the beating. Any idea what that song is titled? I always get teary eyed when I hear it.

 

[featherfingers]

Thanks Featherfingers! While not exactly my tankard of mead, that music still has its charms nonetheless 🙂

You're welcome, Chosen! I'm always happy to help out when I can.

 

[featherfingers]

...Deadsea7777? In the scene where Eli Wallach's character gets the crap beaten out of him by that big guy, the prisoners outside are singing a song to drown out the sound of the beating. Any idea what that song is titled? I always get teary eyed when I hear it.

I found it! It's called "The Story Of A Soldier." I couldn't find a video or Mp3 of it but here's the description of the song and its lyrics, courtesy of Wikipedia:

"The Story Of A Soldier":
("La Storia Di un Soldato" in Italian) is a song from Sergio Leone's 1966 Western "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." Like the rest of the film's score, it was composed by Ennio Morricone, and it is the only song in the score accompanied by lyrics. The lyrics were written by Tommy Connor.

The song and lyrics both carry a depressing tone. The instrumentals haunt the aftermaths of the Civil War battle scenes in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly," and the lyrics suggest war as a hopeless affair with no glory earned for those who march off and die in battle.

It is possible, though speculative, that the lyrics were written in response to escalation of American involvement in the the Vietnam War.

Differing versions:

An abridged cut of the song, lasting approximately three and a half minutes, is included in all U.S. domestic releases of the film's score. An extended cut of the song, lasting 5:33, is included in the score's latest Italian release.

Lyrics:

From U.S. domestic release:

Bugles are calling
From prairie to shore,
Sign up and fall in
And march off to war.

Drums beating loudly,
Hearts beating proudly
Match Blue and Grey
And smile as you say, "Goodbye."

Smoke hides the valleys
And fire paints the plains.
Loud roar the cannons
'Til ruin remains.

Blue grass and cotton
Burnt and forgotten
All hope seems gone
So soldier march on to die.

There in the distance
A flag I can see,
Scorched and in ribbons
But whose can it be?

How ends the story?
Whose is the glory?
Ask if we dare
Our comrades out there who sleep.

 

[Deadsea7777]

I like specially "60 second to what" in "for a few dollars more" with the pocket watch, and "once upon a time in the west" when Henry Fonda and Charles bronson walk around each other in something like out of an opera.

I think is the best FarWest music movie ever written.

 

[featherfingers]

I like specially "60 second to what" in "for a few dollars more" with the pocket watch, and "once upon a time in the west" when Henry Fonda and Charles bronson walk around each other in something like out of an opera.

I think is the best FarWest music movie ever written.

Are you talking about this?
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I just got chills up and down my spine while viewing this! Man, I need to get the entire movie on DVD!

 

[Deadsea7777]

Are you talking about this?

Exactly!, is quite unique in far west, is more of a drama than a simple fight, the influence of the italian drama from director S. Leone is all over.

I think that the music of Morricone, is unique in the western movies.
I also like the one in Two mules for sister Sara.