The 1960s: Hammer Horror, Bond and The Beatles
Donald Macleod focuses on British film scores of the 1960s: some using jazz and pop, and others featuring avant-garde music.
Donald Macleod is joined once more by film music expert David Huckvale to explore two completely different musical genres that dominated 1960s British film. On one hand, jazz and pop were beginning to infuse some of the most innovative and popular movies of the decade ? from The Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" to Monty Norman's famous "Bond Theme" and John Barry's music to "The Ipcress File".
And yet in a studio just off Regent Street, ghoulish forces were stirring... Hammer Horror provided a unique environment for British composers to experiment with the latest ideas from the European avant-garde, safe in the knowledge that audiences would accept their harsh dissonances and bizarre soundworlds in the context of terror. David Huckvale discusses the legacy of musical scarers-in-chief Elisabeth Lutyens, Tristram Cary, Benjamin Frankel ? and the 'godfather' of British horror music, James Bernard.
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James Bernard
Curse of Frankenstein
Orchestra: [unknown].- CDI: CDICD002.
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John Lennon
A Hard Day's Night
Performer: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. Composer: Paul McCartney.- Teldec:8.255579.
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John Barry
The Lion in Winter - The Herb Garden
Orchestra: Soundtrack.- Varese Sarabande: VSD5217.
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John Barry
The Lion in Winter Eya, Eya Nova Gaudia
Orchestra: Soundtrack.- Varese Sarabande: VSD5217.
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John Barry
Out of Africa
Orchestra: Soundtrack.- MCA: MCLD 19092.
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John Barry
Main Title Theme (from The Ipcress File)
Performer: John Leach.- CBS: 2268402.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
The Skull - VII end titles
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.- NMC: NMCD073.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
The Skull - VI
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.- NMC: NMCD073.
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The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
- Parlophone: CDP 7464372.
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James Bernard
Dracula- Suite from Horror of Dracula
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neil Richardson.- Silva Screen: FILMCD066.
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Tristram Cary
Quatermass and the pit
Orchestra: Soundtrack.- GDI: GDICD008.
- 34.
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Benjamin Frankel
Curse of the Werewolf - A Deadly Transformation
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Naxos: 8557850.
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Monty Norman
Dr. No Main Theme
Orchestra: The John Barry Orchestra.- capitol records: 523 2942.
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Cliff Richard & The Shadows
Summer Holiday
- Music for Pleasure: CD-MFP 6021.
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