Great Motion Picture Themes

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Album Summary

Performers

• Al Caiola (Guitar)
• Gerry Mulligan (Saxophone)
• Shelly Manne (Drums)
• Marilyn Monroe (Voice)
• Louis Armstrong (Trumpet)

Conductors

• Bernstein, Elmer
• Buttolph, David
• Costa, Don
• Malneck, Matty
• Moross, Jerome
• Nascimbene, Mario
• Newman, Alfred
• North, Alex
• Perito, Nick
• Potts, Bill
• Powell, Mitchell
• Previn, Andre

Ensembles

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• Ferrante & Teicher
• The Modern Jazz Quartet

Composers

• Elmer Bernstein (Composer/Conductor) (1922 - 2004)
• Jerome Moross (1913 - 1983)
• David Buttolph (1902 - 1983)
• Matty Malneck (1903 - 1981)
• André Previn (Conductor/Piano) (1929 - )
• Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1909 - 1987)
• Billy Strayhorn (1915 - 1967)
• Ernest Gold (Composer) (1921 - 1999)
• Dimitri Tiomkin (Composer) (1894 - 1979)
• Johnny Mandel (1925 - )
• Mario Nascimbene (1913 - 2002)
• Georges Auric (1899 - 1983)
• Hugo Friedhofer (1901 - 1981)
• Herbert Stothart (1885 - 1949)
• Jay Livingston (1915 - 2001)
• Manos Hadjidakis (1925 - 1994)
• Charlie Chaplin (Stage & Screen) (1889 - 1977)
• Charles Williams (Composer/Big Band) (1893 - 1978)
• Alex North (1910 - 1991)
• Max Steiner (Composer) (1888 - 1971)
• George Duning (1908 - 2000)
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
• John Lewis (1920 - 2001)

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Works Details

Gold, Ernest [Composer] : Exodus :: Theme

• Ensemble: Ferrante & Teicher
• Notes: Composition written: 1960.
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1960

Hadjidakis, Manos : Never on Sunday, song

• Conductor: Don Costa
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1960

Bernstein, Elmer : The Magnificent Seven :: Theme

• Performer: Al Caiola (Guitar)
• Notes: Composition written: United States of America.
• Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score

Tiomkin, Dimitri : Green Leaves of Summer

• Conductor: Nick Perito
• Running Time: 1 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Chaplin, Charlie : Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons)

• Conductor: Alfred Newman
• Running Time: 3 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1936

Moross, Jerome : The Big Country :: Theme (Another Day, Another Sunset)

• Conductor: Jerome Moross
• Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1958

Mandel, Johnny : I Want to Live

• Performers: Gerry Mulligan (Saxophone); Shelly Manne (Drums)
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Tiomkin, Dimitri : The Need for Love (theme from The Unforgiven)

• Conductor: Don Costa
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Williams, Charles : Theme ("The Jealous Lover") from the film "The Apartment"

• Ensemble: Ferrante & Teicher
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1949

Gold, Ernest [Composer] : On the Beach, film theme

• Conductor: Mitchell Powell
• Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Buttolph, David : The Horse Soldiers :: Theme

• Conductor: David Buttolph
• Running Time: 2 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1959

Nascimbene, Mario : The Vikings :: Theme

• Conductor: Mario Nascimbene
• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1958

North, Alex : The Wonderful Country, theme from the film

• Conductor: Alex North
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1959

Malneck, Matty : Some Like It Hot, song

• Conductor: Matty Malneck
• Running Time: 1 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1958

Nascimbene, Mario : Solomon and Sheba :: Theme

• Conductor: Mario Nascimbene
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1959

Bernstein, Elmer : God's Little Acre :: Theme (Diggin' in the Morning)

• Conductor: Elmer Bernstein
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1958

Auric, Georges : Goodbye Again, film theme

• Ensemble: Ferrante & Teicher
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Steiner, Max [Composer] : My Own True Love (Tara's Theme from Gone With the Wind)

• Ensemble: Ferrante & Teicher
• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Previn, Andre : Elmer Gantry :: Theme

• Conductor: Andre Previn
• Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Friedhofer, Hugo : One Eyed Jacks :: Love Theme

• Ensemble: Ferrante & Teicher
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1961

Duning, George : Houseboat, theme from the film score

• Conductor: Don Costa
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Lavagnino, Angelo : The Naked Maja :: Theme

• Conductor: Mitchell Powell
• Running Time: 2 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1959

Stothart, Herbert : I Wanna Be Loved by You, song (as used in the film Some Like It Hot)

• Performer: Marilyn Monroe (Voice)
• Conductor: Matty Malneck
• Notes: This work was written in collaboration with Bert Kalmar (1884 - 1947), Harry Ruby (1895 - 1974).
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: I Loves You, Porgy

• Conductor: Bill Potts
• Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Strayhorn, Billy : Take the A Train

• Performer: Louis Armstrong (Trumpet)
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1941

Auric, Georges : Where Is Your Heart, song (for the film Moulin Rouge)

• Conductor: Don Costa
• Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

North, Alex : The Misfits :: Theme

• Conductor: Don Costa
• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1961

Livingston, Jay : Bonanza, television show theme

• Performer: Al Caiola (Guitar)
• Notes: This work was written in collaboration with Ray Evans (Lyricist) (1915 - 2007).
• Running Time: 2 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1959

Lewis, John : Odds Against Tomorrow

• Ensemble: The Modern Jazz Quartet
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Modern