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Wild Rovers Soundtrack Jerry Goldsmith Wild Rovers

Original Soundtrack

Jerry Goldsmith

Label: Film Score Monthly
Date Recorded: 1971
Cat no. FSMCD Vol. 6, No. 15

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Notes
The Hollywood western gasped its last breaths in the late 1960s with revisionist classics with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Wild Bunch. In 1971 Blake Edwards wrote and directed a Hollywood "anti-western" if there ever was one: Wild Rovers, in which William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a pair of down-and-out cowhands who rob a bank and make a run for Mexico.

Although Edwards had a longstanding relationship with Henry Mancini (Peter Gunn, The Pink Panther), he turned to Jerry Goldsmith for the Wild Rovers soundtrack, having been impressed with Goldsmith's ability to score character in Patton (1970). Edwards sought an Aaron Coplandesque effort which would treat authentic cowboy songs in the symphonic idiom, and Goldsmith responded with a theme-and-variations approach which even utilizes the same folk song elements ("Goodbye Old Paint") as Copland's ballet, Billy the Kid.

The result is a melodic and pleasing soundtrack that ranks as one of Goldsmith's finest in the Americana idiom. The cues range from authentically "folksy" to fully symphonic and "Coplandesque"; like Patton, the score is brief and focused on its almost monothematic personality, but not without modernistic action cues - such as "Cattle vs. Sheep," for the death of Karl Malden's rancher.

Previous LP and CD releases of the Wild Rovers soundtrack have been a London re-recording, with two songs performed by Ellen Smith (actually Ellen Goldsmith, the composer's daughter). This definitive CD features the the complete, Los Angeles-recorded underscore (never before released), including the unused title song performed by Sheb Wooley; followed by the complete London album recording (including the "Friendly Advice" track from the 1986 MCA LP, resequenced as Goldsmith intended); and then two bonus tracks of source music vocals from the film - all in stereo.

Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard jewel case. Superb colour booket with detailed introduction, track-by-track notes and images from the movie.


Track Listing

1. Main Title
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2. Friendly Advice
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3. A Sleepless Night Out/Checking Up
Jerry Goldsmith
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4. Snow Country
Jerry Goldsmith
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5. Wild Horses
Jerry Goldsmith
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6. Bronco Bustin' (Revision)
Jerry Goldsmith
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7. Bronco Bustin' (Original Version)
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8. Cattle Vs. Sheep
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9. Quiet Thoughts
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10. The Cemetery/Red Snow
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11. The Knife
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12. Old Times
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13. Final Destination
Jerry Goldsmith
 
14. End Title
Jerry Goldsmith
 
15. Main Title (Sung by Sheb Wooley)
Jerry Goldsmith
 
Original Album Tracks
16. A) Early Morning   B) The Wild Rover
Jerry Goldsmith, Sung by Ellen Smith
 
17. Friendly Advice
Jerry Goldsmith
 
18. Wild Horses
Jerry Goldsmith
 
19. Snow Country
Jerry Goldsmith
 
20. Old Times
Jerry Goldsmith
 
21. The Knife
Jerry Goldsmith
 
22. Bronco Bustin'
Jerry Goldsmith
 
23. Sleepless Night
Jerry Goldsmith
 
24. Saturday Night
Jerry Goldsmith
 
25. A) Final Destination   B) Texas Rangers
Jerry Goldsmith, Sung by Ellen Smith
 
26. End Title: Wild Rovers
Jerry Goldsmith
 
Bonus Tracks
27. Little Purple Poppy
Jerry Goldsmith, Sung by Betty Wand
 
28. Ballad Of The Wild Rovers
Jerry Goldsmith, Sung by William Holden
 


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