FSM: GRAND PRIX (Maurice Jarre) & CHIPS Vol. 2 (Alan Silvestri)

[Marcus Stöhr]

FSM hat heute 2 neue CDs veröffentlicht:

JARRES BEAUTIFULLY MELODIC GRAND PRIX NOW COMPLETE ON CD

Film Score Monthly crosses the finish line with the entire Maurice Jarre score in addition to alternate and LP cues and no sound effects!

Linden, VA October 13, 2008 Gentlemen, start your engines Film Score Monthly has fine-tuned yet another banner soundtrack from the 1960s.

One of Maurice Jarre's classic scores now comes to CD in complete form: Grand Prix (1966), director John Frankenheimer's film about Formula One racing, a masterful technical achievement that has long been lauded as one of the best and most accurate films about auto racing ever made. The film covers the on- and off-track experiences of a group of racers during a Grand Prix season and is headlined by James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato as the drivers, and Jessica Walter, Eva Marie Saint and Francoise Hardy as the women they love.

Jarre had recently scored The Train (1964) for Frankenheimer (FSMCD Vol. 10, No. 8), and provided one of cinema's all-time famous scores in Doctor Zhivago (1965) for M-G-M. Grand Prix, also from M-G-M, was hurriedly completed for a Christmas 1966 release and Jarre was more or less left on his own to provide music that scored the personal journeys of the characters rather than the visceral thrill of the racing (which was largely conveyed by sound effects in Frankenheimer's naturalistic approach).

Jarre's main theme evokes the pomp and grandeur of the Grand Prix experience, while two secondary themes apply to the French (Montand) and English (Bedford) racecar drivers. The score is beautifully melodic and sensitive, with a wafting Continental flavor that is at once refined yet accessible Jarre's career in a nutshell. Few other composers have been able to so elegantly provide the sense of a theatrical frame while maintaining an intimacy with the characters an achievement he nimbly repeats in Grand Prix.

Grand Prix was previously released on LP and CD, but this newly restored and expanded master features superior sound quality (remixed from the original 35mm three-track magnetic film sessions) and eliminates the sound effects that briefly appeared on a couple of tracks on the vinyl. Tracks 1-20 present the complete score, while tracks 21-30 feature alternate and album selections. Liner notes are by Paul Andrew MacLean, featuring new interview comments by Jarre.

The CD is now available from Screen Archives Entertainment at www.screenarchives.com.

Check it out at GRAND PRIX -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT

YES, ITS MORE CHiPs AND THIS TIME YOU CAN SING ALONG!

Film Score Monthly offers another volume of music from the 1970s TV favorite featuring Alan Silvestris third season score cues and three rare vocals

Linden, VA October 13, 2008 Get your motor running... head out on the highway just like Ponch and Jon with a second soundtrack CD sure to please fans of 1970s upbeat, disco-style music. And this time, there are songs!

Released by special arrangement with Turner Classic Movies, its Film Score Monthlys CHiPs: Volume 2 with music by Alan Silvestri.

Volume 1 of the CHiPs soundtrack album featured music from the show's second season (1978-1979), the first for composer Silvestri. Volume 2 now features Silvestri's best themes from season three (1979-1980), the heyday for the television classic starring Erik Estrada (Ponch) and Larry Wilcox (Jon) as motorcycle cops patrolling California highways. Years before Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and his dozens of other famous feature film scores, Silvestri was a young composer cutting his teeth with disco music for NBC's hit series. Silvestri wrote a new melody for each weekly installment, making the scores translate well to a compilation due to the variety of themes.

Notable entries on this volume include Silvestri's arrangement of John Parker's "CHiPs" theme for season three's main and end titles. Although essentially the same as that of season two (presented on FSMs earlier volume), these recordings were replaced by the year two versions and have never been heard outside of a few NBC promo spots. Sure to bring smiles to the faces of disco and CHiPs fans is the discovery of vocals for the first three episodes produced for season three: "High Octane," "Counterfeit" and "Valley Go Home!" Silvestri wrote and recorded vocal versions (featuring background singers of the time) of several score cues at the behest of executive producer Cy Chermak, but the network nixed the idea.

Nearly three decades later, the song versions make their premiere on FSM's CD. Like Volume 1, FSM's second CHiPs CD is entirely in stereo from the first-generation 1/2" master tapes and features liner notes by Lukas Kendall along with a Ponch-a-riffic package designed by Joe Sikoryak. Seven-Mary-Three, report to headquarters to pick up your CHiPs: Volume Two.

The CD is now available from Screen Archives Entertainment at www.screenarchives.com.

Check it out at CHIPS VOL. 2: SEASON THREE (1979-80) -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT

[Antineutrino]

Klasse, endlich Grand Prix!!

[Beaverhausen]

ICH persönlich kann mit beiden leider nicht viel anfangen. schade. aber viel spass allen andern, die damit freude haben

[Bernd Junker]

Da ich CHIPS Vol.1 bereits habe, ist Vol.2 natürlich Pflicht.

[Issy72]

Supi! Wieder ein Jarre, den ich von meiner Wunschliste streichen kann! Danke FSM!

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Freue mich auch. Aber das Motorheulen in den Tracks wird mir fehlen.

Die Nibelungen, Rolf Rózsa, äh, Wilhelm Tiomkin, nein, sorry, Rolf Wilhelm.

[BigMacGyver]

Chips ist sowas von gekauft!

Und wenn FSM danach mal irgendwann fandango rausbringt bin ich wunschlos glücklich.

[Antineutrino]

Hoffentlich ist Fandango besser... Judgement Night, Chips, Delta Force, was fürn Gruselkabinett. Sollte man nicht erst die guten Scores veröffentlichen?

[BigMacGyver]

Das ist ein ungeschriebenes gesetz in sachen silvestri. Seine besten arbeiten bleiben unveröffentlicht. Siegfried & Roy, polar express, back to the future, blown away, super mario bros, the bodyguard...

Da sehe ich keine hoffnung, insofern bin ich froh, dass überhaupt irgendwas rauskommt. Und alle sind ja nun nicht schlecht. Chips auf keinen fall. Es ist halt disco musik und zwar sehr gute. Wem das halt nicht gefällt, der muss sich die disc ja zum glück nicht kaufen. Vom "gruselkabinett" ist chips jedenfalls weit entfernt.

Und ja, fandango ist genial aber roger von intrada meinte vor kurzem, dass die situation da auch nicht ganz einfach sei. FSM hat allerdings connections zu warner und auch schon scores aus den 80ern veröffentlicht insofern bleibe ich da optimistisch. Emile Brinkman hat jedenfalls sichergestellt, dass lukas kendall den score kennenlernt und er mochte die musik sehr.

Bearbeitet 13. Oktober 2008 von BigMacGyver

[peter-anselm]

Freue mich auch. Aber das Motorheulen in den Tracks wird mir fehlen.

Die Nibelungen, Rolf Rózsa, äh, Wilhelm Tiomkin, nein, sorry, Rolf Wilhelm.

Gibt ja immer noch LeMans von Michel Legrand (reimt sich sogar). Da ist jede Menge Motorengeheul drauf.