Al Caiola • Hit Instrumentals From Western TV Themes

 Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Guitarist Al Caiola initially made his reputation as a session musician, playing on records made by Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz, among others. Caiola was the conductor and arranger for United Artists Records in the late '40s and early '50s. After leaving UA, he signed with RCA, where he released a number of singles in the '50s. In the early '60s, he went back to United Artists, which is where he scored his first hit with the theme to the film The Magnificent Seven. The single peaked at 35 in early 1961 and it was quickly followed by the theme to the television series Bonanza, which climbed to number 19. For the rest of the '60s, Caiola released a number of easy listening instrumental albums and also hosted a television show, which was only aired for a short while. Caiola continued to record throughout subsequent decades; he died in Allendale, New Jersey in 2016 at the age of 96.

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Biografía de Stephen Thomas Erlewine

El guitarrista Al Caiola inicialmente hizo su reputación como músico de sesión, tocando en discos hechos por Percy Faith y Andre Kostelanetz, entre otros. Caiola fue la directora y arreglista de United Artists Records a finales de los años 40 y principios de los 50. Después de dejar UA, firmó con RCA, donde lanzó una serie de singles en los años 50. A principios de los años 60, regresó a United Artists, que es donde anotó su primer éxito con el tema de la película The Magnificent Seven. El single alcanzó su punto máximo en 35 a principios de 1961 y fue seguido rápidamente por el tema de la serie de televisión Bonanza, que llegó al número 19. Durante el resto de los años 60, Caiola lanzó una serie de álbumes instrumentales fáciles de escuchar y también presentó una televisión. Espectáculo, que solo se emitió por un corto tiempo. Caiola continuó grabando a lo largo de décadas posteriores; murió en Allendale, Nueva Jersey en 2016 a la edad de 96 años.

Spy Fi Volume I • 'The Thigh Who Loved Me'

Spy-themed band from Cleveland, OH. 

 

  

Spy Fi Volume II • 'Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'

Spy Fi Volume III • Black Tie Spy

 

John Williams's Film Music

 

John Williams is one of the most renowned film composers in history. He has penned unforgettable scores for Star Wars, the Indiana Jones series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Superman, and countless other films. Fans flock to his many concerts, and with forty-nine Academy Award nominations as of 2014, he is the second-most Oscar-nominated person after Walt Disney. Yet despite such critical acclaim and prestige, this is the first book in English on Williams’s work and career.
            Combining accessible writing with thorough scholarship, and rigorous historical accounts with insightful readings, John Williams’s Film Music explores why Williams is so important to the history of film music. Beginning with an overview of music from Hollywood’s Golden Age (1933–58), Emilio Audissino traces the turning points of Williams’s career and articulates how he revived the classical Hollywood musical style. This book charts each landmark of this musical restoration, with special attention to the scores for Jaws and Star Wars, Williams’s work as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a full film/music analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The result is a precise, enlightening definition of Williams’s “neoclassicism” and a grounded demonstration of his lasting importance, for both his compositions and his historical role in restoring part of the Hollywood tradition.

 

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Eric Winstone • Plays 007

Eric Winstone (born 1 January 1913 in London, died 2 May 1974 in Pagham, Sussex) was an English big band leader, conductor and composer.

Playing piano in his spare time from a job as Westminster Gas and Coke Company led him to form his first band in 1935.[citation needed] He learned the accordion, started an accordion school and formed an accordion quintet, a swing quintet, and a big band orchestra.

During World War II his orchestra entertained the forces, and performed at holiday camps after the war. In 1955 a CinemaScope short of The Eric Winstone Bandshow was made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Winstone

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Eric Winstone (nacido el 1 de enero de 1913 en Londres y fallecido el 2 de mayo de 1974 en Pagham, Sussex) fue un director de orquesta, director de orquesta y compositor inglés.

Tocar el piano en su tiempo libre de un trabajo en la Westminster Gas and Coke Company le llevó a formar su primera banda en 1935[cita requerida] Aprendió a tocar el acordeón, creó una escuela de acordeón y formó un quinteto de acordeón, un quinteto de swing y una orquesta de big band.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su orquesta amenizó a las fuerzas armadas y actuó en campamentos de vacaciones después de la guerra. En 1955 se realizó un cortometraje CinemaScope de The Eric Winstone Bandshow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Winstone

Hitchcock’s Music

 

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the first to fully explore the essential role music played in the movies of Alfred Hitchcock.
Based on extensive interviews with composers, writers, and actors, and research in rare archives, Jack Sullivan discusses how Hitchcock used music to influence the atmosphere, characterization, and even storylines of his films. Sullivan examines the director’s important relationships with various composers, especially Bernard Herrmann, and tells the stories behind the musical decisions. Covering the whole of the director’s career, from the early British works up to Family Plot, this engaging look at the work of Alfred Hitchcock offers new insight into his achievement and genius and changes the way we watch―and listen―to his movies. 

 

Jack Sullivan (Author)

The Hollywood Film Music Reader

 

A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the heyday of silent film, the book traces film music's progress through Hollywood's so-called Golden Age to changes in musical styles and working practices from the 1960s to the present. Also included are vivid first-hand accounts from composers such as George Antheil, Elmer Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Adolph Deutsch, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Thomas Newman, André Previn, David Raksin, Miklós Rózsa, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, and John Williams, along with testimonies from composers working in animation and documentary film. The book concludes with a section of criticism and commentary, including an essay on film music by Sidney Lumet and Igor Stravinsky's provocative views on the
subject.

 

Oscar Peterson • Oscar's - Oscar Peterson Plays The Academy Awards

 

 

 

 

Bruton Music Library • BRI 6 - Alan Hawkshaw • Frontiers Of Science

 

Biography
by Timothy Monger
A prolific British composer, arranger, and session musician, Alan Hawkshaw created a widely-heard body of work without ever achieving any sort of celebrity, a situation which suited him just fine. Although he was a member of the Shadows, played keyboards with everyone from David Bowie to Donna Summer, and even scored a number one dance hit in the U.S., Hawkshaw's most enduring contributions were in the form of library music, which was licensed extensively across film and television from the late-1960s onward. By the time of his death in 2021, his theme songs to British programs like Countdown, Grange Hill, and the Channel 4 News remained intimately familiar to many.

Born in Leeds, Hawkshaw's professional music career began in the early-'60s when he joined the rock group Emile Ford and the Checkmates, playing on their hit single "Counting Teardrops." Eventually he immersed himself in the London music scene where he became a popular session musician, playing keys for artists like David Bowie and the Hollies and forming a short-lived studio band called the Mohawks whose 1968 song "The Champ" has been widely sampled, particularly in the hip-hop world. Heading into the '70s, Hawkshaw became a member of the Shadows and throughout the decade played on recordings by Serge Gainsbourg, Cliff Richard, Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John, and many others. Despite his immense talent, he had no real desire for the spotlight and preferred to work in the background, composing music and playing a support role for other.

Although he appeared as a player on countless records, his real bread and butter came from composing and recording music for publisher Keith Prowse's KPM library. The wealth of instrumental music Hawkshaw made for KPM could be heard in a variety of facets from television programs like The Dave Allen Show and On the Move to American auteur Radley Metzger's late-'70s erotic films. Beginning in 1978, British soap opera Grange Hill adopted one of his library songs as its theme and a few years later, Channel 4 News did the same. The Channel 4 game show Countdown also used a Hawkshaw piece as its iconic "Chimes" jingle and he could be heard on hundreds of commercials as well. Hawkshaw even operated in the disco sphere where he managed to top the U.S. dance charts with 1979's "Here Comes That Sound Again" by his studio band Love De-Luxe.

He later formed the charitable organization the Alan Hawkshaw Foundation to support underprivileged music students. Just prior to his death from pneumonia in October 2021, Hawkshaw was awarded both a British Empire Medal and a Leeds fellowship.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alan-hawkshaw-mn0000506434/biography

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Biografía
por Timothy Monger
Prolífico compositor, arreglista y músico de sesión británico, Alan Hawkshaw creó una obra muy escuchada sin alcanzar nunca ningún tipo de celebridad, una situación que le venía muy bien. Aunque fue miembro de los Shadows, tocó los teclados con todo el mundo, desde David Bowie hasta Donna Summer, e incluso consiguió un número uno en los Estados Unidos, las contribuciones más duraderas de Hawkshaw fueron en forma de música de biblioteca, que se licenció ampliamente en el cine y la televisión desde finales de los años 60. En el momento de su muerte, en 2021, sus temas para programas británicos como Countdown, Grange Hill y Channel 4 News seguían siendo íntimamente conocidos por muchos.

Nacido en Leeds, la carrera musical de Hawkshaw comenzó a principios de los 60 cuando se unió al grupo de rock Emile Ford and the Checkmates, tocando en su exitoso single "Counting Teardrops". Con el tiempo, se sumergió en la escena musical londinense, donde se convirtió en un popular músico de sesión, tocando las teclas para artistas como David Bowie y los Hollies y formando una banda de estudio de corta duración llamada Mohawks, cuya canción de 1968 "The Champ" ha sido ampliamente sampleada, especialmente en el mundo del hip-hop. En los años 70, Hawkshaw se convirtió en miembro de los Shadows y, a lo largo de la década, tocó en grabaciones de Serge Gainsbourg, Cliff Richard, Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John y muchos otros. A pesar de su inmenso talento, no tenía ningún deseo real de ser el centro de atención y prefería trabajar en segundo plano, componiendo música y desempeñando un papel de apoyo para otros.

Aunque apareció como intérprete en innumerables discos, su verdadero pan de cada día fue componer y grabar música para la biblioteca KPM del editor Keith Prowse. La abundante música instrumental que Hawkshaw hizo para KPM pudo escucharse en diversas facetas, desde programas de televisión como The Dave Allen Show y On the Move hasta las películas eróticas de finales de los 70 del autor estadounidense Radley Metzger. A partir de 1978, la telenovela británica Grange Hill adoptó como tema una de sus canciones de biblioteca y, unos años más tarde, Channel 4 News hizo lo mismo. El programa de juegos Countdown de Channel 4 también utilizó una pieza de Hawkshaw como su icónico jingle "Chimes" y también se le pudo escuchar en cientos de anuncios publicitarios. Hawkshaw actuó incluso en la esfera de la música disco, donde consiguió encabezar las listas de éxitos de baile de Estados Unidos con "Here Comes That Sound Again", de 1979, de su grupo de estudio Love De-Luxe.

Más tarde creó la organización benéfica Alan Hawkshaw Foundation para apoyar a los estudiantes de música más desfavorecidos. Justo antes de su muerte por neumonía en octubre de 2021, Hawkshaw recibió la Medalla del Imperio Británico y una beca de Leeds.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alan-hawkshaw-mn0000506434/biography

 

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Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography

 

Amadeus .. . Yankee Doodle Dandy .. . Swanee River .. . Rhapsody in Blue. Even before movies had sound, filmmakers dramatized the lives of composers. Movie biographies—or biopics—have depicted composers as diverse as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George M. Cohan, Stephen Foster, and George Gershwin. In this enticing book, the first devoted entirely to such films, John C. Tibbetts surveys different styles and periods from the Hollywood of the 1920s and 1930s to the international cinema of today, exploring the role that film biographies play in our understanding of history and culture.
Tibbetts delves into such questions as: How historically accurate are composer biopics? How and why have inaccuracies and distortions been perpetrated? What strategies have been used to represent visually the creative process? The book examines the films in several contexts and considers their role in commodifying and popularizing music. Extensive archival research, dozens of illustrations, and numerous interviews make this an appealing book for film and music enthusiasts at all levels.

 

John C. Tibbetts (Author) 

 

 

Music in Cinema (Film and Culture Series)

 

Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other.

The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories. Beginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson’s performance in The Jazz Singer, the zither in The Third Man, Godard’s patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Kinshasa orchestra in Felicité, among many more. Chion considers both original scores and incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors’ attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as musique concrète, of which he is a composer.

Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars. 

 

 by Michel Chion (Author)

 

David McCallum • McCallum

 

Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

 

The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the Hollywood adaptations of The Lord of The Rings and the Harry Potter series. Analyzing both concert music and film music, Bribitzer-Stull explains what the leitmotif is and establishes it as the union of two aspects: the thematic and the associative. He goes on to show that Wagner's Ring cycle provides a leitmotivic paradigm, a model from which we can learn to better understand the leitmotif across style periods. Arguing for a renewed interest in the artistic merit of the leitmotif, Bribitzer-Stull reveals how uniting meaning, memory, and emotion in music can lead to a richer listening experience and a better understanding of dramatic music's enduring appeal.

 

Billy Strange • The James Bond Theme

Billy Strange • Goldfinger

Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music

 

Reel Music, revised for a new generation of movie lovers, tells the story of film music through iconic scenes. The Second Edition features more in-depth exploration of international films―from classics like Seven Samurai to more recent works like Run Lola Run―as well as new suggestions for activities and classroom discussion, and even more Viewer Guides, which show how film music functions moment-by-moment.

 

Billy Strange • Great Western Themes

Syd Dale • The Sounds Of Syd Dale

Syd Dale (20 May 1924 in York – 15 August 1994) was an English self-taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s and is still used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Dale

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Syd Dale (20 de mayo de 1924 en York - 15 de agosto de 1994) fue un compositor y arreglista autodidacta inglés de música funk, easy listening y de biblioteca. Su música jugó un papel importante en la televisión, radio y medios de publicidad de los años 60 y 70 y todavía se utiliza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Dale
 

 

 

Massimo Farao • Music From American TV Shows

Massimo Farao' was born in Genoa in 1965, studied piano with Flavio Crivelli, a local jazz piano player, who also learned Dado Moroni to play, and played in as a young adult with the Nat Adderley Quintet. He moved to the States two years later and became the musical director of the Shawnn Monteiro Quartet with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham.

http://www.mymusicbase.ru/PPB/ppb36/Bio_3669.htm

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Massimo Farao' nació en Génova en 1965, estudió piano con Flavio Crivelli, un pianista de jazz local, que también aprendió Dado Moroni a tocar, y tocó de joven con el Nat Adderley Quintet. Se mudó a los Estados Unidos dos años después y se convirtió en el director musical del Cuarteto Shawnn Monteiro con Keter Betts y Bobby Durham.
http://www.mymusicbase.ru/PPB/ppb36/Bio_3669.htm