Rare Ennio Morricone BIG GUNDOWN Film Soundtrack OST LP 1966 Spaghetti Western M
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Description
Ennio Morricone ?– The Big Gundown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label: United Artists Records ?– UAS 5190
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Modern Classical, Easy Listening
Vinyl: MINT. Clean on visual inspection. Plays superbly.
Cover and sleeve: EX-NEAR MINT. Colours are unfaded and no tears on sleeve. Sellotape all round edges but no damage elsewhere on front or back. A very good example overall.
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Track listing:
A1. The Big Gundown (Main Title) 2:34
A2. The Widow 1:09
A3. Run, Man, Run 2:59
A4. The Bullfight 1:49
A5. After The Verdict 1:40
A6. First Desert 2:23
B1. The Big Gundown 2:16
B2. The Verdict 2:40
B3. The Surrender 1:10
B4. Cucillo Arrives 0:45
B5. Normoni Choir 1:45
B6. Second Desert 1:21
B7. The Big Gundown (End Title) 1:00
Matrix / Runout (side 1): UAS-5190 A-1B
Matrix / Runout (side 2): UAS-5190 B-1B
Review:
Ennio Morricone’s “The Big Gundown” is an example one of the very best spaghetti western soundtracks so simultaneously restrained yet bursting forth that the tension, anticipation and ultimate unveiling is both unbearable and exhilarating. Although no tracks even hit three minutes, all of them (even the ones a minute or so in length) are so densely packed with dramatic information alongside the bravura and pathos that run so deep and consecutively balance themselves that it combines to distort the length of the album from that of a half hour into an afternoon.
Despite being a spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Sollima and not Sergio Leone, the soundtrack to “The Big Gundown” could easily be considered a companion piece to those of ‘The Man With No Name’ trilogy (“A Fistful Of Dollars,” “For A Few Dollars More” and “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.”) Of course, Morricone’s rich score makes it a dead natch -- Not to mention the back cover’s depiction of an armed Lee Van Cleef beneath the title: “Mr. Ugly Comes To Town!” (Despite the fact he was the ‘Bad’ and not the ‘Ugly,’ but never mind. The reason for this being that the film version of “The Big Gundown” was released prior to “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly” but United Artists held the release of its American soundtrack LP back until after the wake of their higher-budgeted “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly” soundtrack hit the racks.)
No, what makes it a sister piece most of all was Morricone’s employment of nearly all the same talent present on ‘The Man With No Name’ trilogy, and with similarly outstanding results. Recording was made with the same orchestra, conducted (here by Bruno Nicolai) and one usually unknown but especially significant musician -- Morricone’s guitarist. This same guitarist twanged throughout the entire ‘Man With No Name’ trilogy of soundtracks and contributed much to their singular uniqueness. His name is Alessandro Alessandroni
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