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Soldier Blue OST [Soundtrack]

Roy Budd | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (4 Jun 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Silva Screen Records
  • ASIN: B00821LY2W
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1. Soldier Blue
2. Kiowa Country
3. Ride On
4. Fields Of Green And Skies Of Blue (Instrumental)
5. Cresta's Theme
6. How Wonderful Life Is
7. Fields Of Green And Skies Of Blue (Vocal)(all on Soldier Blue)
8. Catlow's Theme
9. Courtroom
10. Sun On My Face
11. Get The Gold
12. Indian Ambush
13. Stagecoach
14. Catlow (End Titles)( all on Catlow)
15. Zeppelin Main Theme
16. All You Want Me To Be (all on Zeppelin)
17. Concerto For Harry (featuring The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
18. How Can We Run Away (all on Something To Hide)
19. Lust
20. Envy, Greed And Gluttony (all onThe Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins)

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The fourth album in Silva Screen's Roy Budd reissue series features his score for the controversial 1970 western Soldier Blue. At the tender age of 23 this impressive debut soundtrack elevated his career from a respected jazz musician to that of an internationally acclaimed film composer.A year later he had completed seven scores topped by Get Carter and followed by the western Catlow, WW1 drama Zeppelin and comedy The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, the latter three all featured on this release.Also included is Concerto For Harry from the 1976 drama Something To Hide.A remarkable piece of music as Roy fashions his own piano concerto in the style of Liszt, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky highlighting his keyboard skills and all with the illustrious assistance of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Soldier Blue - Roy Budd 21 Jun 2012
By D.L.J.Mann TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Best known for his 'Get Carter' score, Roy Budd's work has been well served over the years with several 'Best Ofs', 'Remixes' and, through the label Cinephile, the majority of his scores. All now out of print. Of late Silva Screen has picked up the baton and methodically re-packaged these scores and released them at an affordable price.

A word of warning: for those searching out more of the same jazz funk that Budd pioneered on 'Get Carter' this collection of 5 scores is not for you, being predominantly orchestral, occasionally lush and as far removed from Michael Caine holding a sawn off as you are likely to hear.

'Soldier Blue' (1970), one of the most controversial westerns ever made is surprisingly sweet considering the on screen violence. The score would have been weightier had Buffy Saint Marie's ragged vocal been included. To my ears the music sounds as if it's been given a contemporary twist and it would not surprise me if Budd had re-arranged his cues for the soundtrack release.

Though made in 1971, Budd's score for the comic western 'Catlow' steers very clear of Morricone's spaghetti stylings, and instead recalls Elmer Bernstein's score for 'The Magnificent Seven'. There's too mucho comic banjo for my enjoyment but the action cues are satisfying.

The WW1 drama 'Zeppelin' (1971) features a blistering main theme that fades in and fades out with sampled engine noise. All I can say is it's on a par with the very best of Jerry Goldsmith. No higher compliment can I pay. The second track is blighted by a wretched vocal clearly inspired by Noel Harrison's 'The Windmills Of Your Mind'.

Budd's score for the thriller 'Something To Hide' (1976) could be subtitled 'Budd goes Rachmaninov'.... Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars Some Of Roy Budd's Terrific Early Work 25 July 2012
By Kaya Savas - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Soldier Blue is one of those movies that has stuck with me ever since I saw it. I remember back when I used to write reviews for MovieWeb.com that I got the DVD when Lionsgate obtained the rights to it and re-released it. I have always been a western fan. Leone films are a part of me as much as anything, but I usually have always been solely a spaghetti western guy. I was never crazy about John Ford or Sam Peckinpah. I am a Sergio Leone bred film enthusiast, but there was something about Ralph Nelson's Solider Blue. It was vivid, it was was raw and boy was it violent. Roy Budd's intimate jazz lounge style score for it always stuck out to me as well.

The music paints a certain romance right from the start and it feels very reminiscent of its time. It has the stylings of John Barry and Burt Bacharach all in one, but there was a raw innocence to it that was captured so beautifully. The western elements are all there as well, and Roy Budd does a great job of making this feel like an organic score. Once the film turns dark and violent you really yearn for the sweet melodies that captured the young spirits of Honus and Kathy. Now, this terrific release also comes with selections from Catlow, Zepplin, Something To Hide and The Magnificent Deadly Sins. Catlow is a bit of a lighter more energetic western sound from Budd. Zeppelin and The Magnificent Deadly Sins are the sort of odd ones in the bunch, but it's nice to have a few tracks from them as they are terrific scores.

In the end this really isn't the score to Solider Blue, but more of a compilation of Roy Budd's magnificent early work. It's an ode to one of the silver age's greatest composers and the sound quality of this release is superb. To be able to have these tracks is a great pleasure. This release was previously on a different label, but now we have it here in the states thanks to Silva Screen Records.
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