Jerry Goldsmith episode

[Gabriel Girard]

Can't wait to hear this one, will listen to it tommorow. A quick question - I know he did a lot of scores but why not include something from Seconds? The score is one of the many memorable things from that film.

[cdouglas]

Can't wait to hear this one, will listen to it tommorow. A quick question - I know he did a lot of scores but why not include something from Seconds? The score is one of the many memorable things from that film.

I would have loved to. It's a great score. But when it comes to Goldsmith, there are so many options - he was churning out several scores a year for the duration of his long career. I also would have loved to include stuff from Papillon and The Blue Max and Hoosiers and The Traveling Executioner and The Omen and The Wild Rovers and Patton and... well, it goes on and on. But I promise to include Seconds the next time I have an opportunity.

[Gabriel Girard]

Can't wait to hear this one, will listen to it tommorow. A quick question - I know he did a lot of scores but why not include something from Seconds? The score is one of the many memorable things from that film.

I would have loved to. It's a great score. But when it comes to Goldsmith, there are so many options - he was churning out several scores a year for the duration of his long career. I also would have loved to include stuff from Papillon and The Blue Max and Hoosiers and The Traveling Executioner and The Omen and The Wild Rovers and Patton and... well, it goes on and on. But I promise to include Seconds the next time I have an opportunity.

I understand that it's hard to choose when a composer has done an icredible quantity of material, especially when it's varied stuff like Goldsmith did (unlike say.. Danny Elfamn who always sounds more or less the same). Looking at the credits for some composers makes you wonder how they could churn out that much stuff - Ennio Morriconne's list of scores is mind-boggling.

[cdouglas]

I understand that it's hard to choose when a composer has done an icredible quantity of material, especially when it's varied stuff like Goldsmith did (unlike say.. Danny Elfamn who always sounds more or less the same). Looking at the credits for some composers makes you wonder how they could churn out that much stuff - Ennio Morriconne's list of scores is mind-boggling.

I have literally hundreds of Morricone scores in my collection, but I don't think it amounts to even half of his total output. I have no idea how he does it.

[Gabriel Girard]

Just finished listening to the show. great stuff! My favorites were the selections from Mulan and Breakheart Pass. I wish you could have featured more music from Chinatown; but I guess you wanted to put emphasis on his lesser known work.

[cdouglas]

Just finished listening to the show. great stuff! My favorites were the selections from Mulan and Breakheart Pass. I wish you could have featured more music from Chinatown; but I guess you wanted to put emphasis on his lesser known work.

Really glad you dug Breakheart Pass - that's such a cool score, and so few people are familiar with it. I'm pretty sure that I did a more extensive Chinatown suite on one of the earlier shows, but I can't recall which one of the top of my head. Had to get that main theme in there, though, just because I wanted to include at least some of his more iconic, instantly recognizable stuff.