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Track Listings
| 1. Main Title & Castletown Opening |
| 2. This Way!/Journey To Innisfree & Humble Cottage |
| 3. Sean Sees Mary Kate For The First Time (Sheep Grazing/Arrival In Innisfree |
| 4. The Wild Colonial Boy/River Cottage |
| 5. The Race |
| 6. The Courting/Bicycle Made For Two (Village Street) |
| 7. Love Scene (The Stream/The Graveyard) |
| 8. Trooper Thorn (The Fight Bell) |
| 9. The Isle Of Innisfree (Vocal) |
| 10. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen |
| 11. Cottage Fireside (Forlorn) |
| 12. Galway Bay (Vocal) |
| 13. Prelude To The Big Fight |
| 14. The Fight |
| 15. Finale And End Title |
| 16. The Isle Of Innisfree |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
this is the soundtrack to my fave jw movie . i have this on video and dvd . been to the film location several times in co.mayo i have always liked the songs a winner for me .
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
"The Quiet Man" is Always a Hit
29 Oct 2001
Format:Audio CD
My favorite movie of all time, I was thrilled that the Dublin Screen Orchestra was re-releasing the soundtrack to the quiet man. The only disappointments (really, surprises) of the soundtrack were The Wild Colonial Boy/River Cottage (which lacked the drunken luster of Barry Fitzgerald's in the film version) and The Isle of Innisfree (vocal) by Anne Buckley (who didn't sound nearly as good as Maureen O'Hara).
My wedding would not have been the same without it.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
The Only Thing Better Would be the Original Soundtrack
2 Aug 2005
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're reading this it's because you, too, fell under the enchantment of the music of that masterpiece of a movie; "The Quiet Man". Music can often enhance and even improve a movie. I read one critic's observation that the opening and closing music to "Chariots of Fire" was the edge that got it the Best Picture Oscar that year. In "The Quiet Man" the music certainly embellishes the movie right from the very beginning. The uniquely Irish quality of the songs and the background orchestration creates as much or more of the Irish flavor as the on-location settings.
Some of the music of this soundtrack sounds just like the original and may be, for all I know. Other parts are modern versions orchestrated to sound as much as possible like the original. Some seem added and, in at least two glaring examples, some seem missing. For example, I'm familiar with the ballad "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" and I believe I recall it being sung in John Ford's "Rio Grande". However, I don't recall ever hearing it sung or played in "The Quiet Man". Two of the songs I really enjoyed and hoped to hear in this CD were the two sung just after the wedding. I don't know the titles but I called the one "The Humour is Off Me Now" and the other "The Mush Mush Mush Song". They were both missing from this CD and I'm sorry they were. I suppose once I read the liner notes, I may find some sort of explanation for this. In the meantime, I'll try and focus on the great music I got rather than the fun songs I missed. That may not be too hard because there's plenty of great music to focus on.
Some of the music of this soundtrack sounds just like the original and may be, for all I know. Other parts are modern versions orchestrated to sound as much as possible like the original. Some seem added and, in at least two glaring examples, some seem missing. For example, I'm familiar with the ballad "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" and I believe I recall it being sung in John Ford's "Rio Grande". However, I don't recall ever hearing it sung or played in "The Quiet Man". Two of the songs I really enjoyed and hoped to hear in this CD were the two sung just after the wedding. I don't know the titles but I called the one "The Humour is Off Me Now" and the other "The Mush Mush Mush Song". They were both missing from this CD and I'm sorry they were. I suppose once I read the liner notes, I may find some sort of explanation for this. In the meantime, I'll try and focus on the great music I got rather than the fun songs I missed. That may not be too hard because there's plenty of great music to focus on.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Musical perfection
15 Jan 2001
Format:Audio CD
I was curious when I read that John Williams' 'Jaws' music was heavily influenced by the Quiet Man score, so I listened a bit more attentively and I was stunned. The heartbeat rhythm of Jaws is very clearly present here, in "Prelude To The Big Fight" if memory serves, and other tracks are also glaringly similar.
Victor Young has seemingly taken every Irish tune ever whistled and put a new spin on it, creating a soundtrack both rousing and romantic, and strongly evocative of the utopian Ireland of the movie.
The only possible complaint I could have about this is that it left me a little disappointed in John Williams. GO BUY IT NOW!
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