The Boy and the Pirates (Albert Glasser, Kritzerland)

[Bernd Junker]

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boy against buccaneer! All the wonder of perceptovision!

Kritzerland is proud to present a world premiere limited edition cd release:

the boy and the pirates

music composed and conducted by albert glasser

in 1960, after years of producing films about giant creatures, colossal men, cyclops, and tiny puppet people, bert i. Gordon, affectionately known as mr. Big, did something very unexpected he made a really fun childrens adventure film called the boy and the pirates. The film starred charles herbert as the boy, murvyn vye as the pirate, and, best of all, mr. Bigs very own daughter susan gordon as the girl.

See! See! See!

The amazing genie! The growing sea-mountain! The fantastic journey into time! The magic fog! The most amazing adventure a boy ever lived!

The one-sheet for the film told kids of the day all they needed to know and they flocked to the theater. Just what perceptovision was was anyones guess, but whatever it was, we loved it. And yes, there was a genie, and there was magic fog (pink, to be exact), and there was a boy and there were pirates galore and a wonderful pirate ship and adventures and the adorable susan gordon. And tying it all together was the score of albert glasser.

While glasser had been scoring every kind of low-budget film in every kind of genre, for mr. Big hed been composing one horror film after another, so the boy and the pirates was a nice change of pace for both of them. And it was also the type of score glasser knew intimately the big, swashbuckling sort of music he was around when he began in hollywood, especially when he was working with the master of that kind of music, the great erich wolfgang korngold. Glasser came up with a lot of swash and even more buckle, with his trademark blaring brass, fun themes, and rip-roaring saturday matinee adventure music and all in stereophonic sound. Its grand to hear glasser in a mode other than horror, and his music really works wonderfully in the film and on its own.

For this release, we used 1/4-inch stereo tapes, which were in very good condition. Weve tried to put this in as close to film order as possible as frequently happens, some of the music was truncated, some repeated, and some not used. Its a very short score, so to add a little bit more playing time to the cd were pleased to present a little mini-suite from mr. Bigs classic, attack of the puppet people. Sadly, all the tapes weve heard on this score have horrible distortion were still on the prowl for better tapes, but until they turn up, weve salvaged the few cues that didnt have extreme distortion and edited them together into a nice little musical appetizer.

So, join us on the high seas for adventure and fun with pirates and puppet people!

- main title / playing on the beach

- jimmy the pirate / kathy digs clams / the wish

- abu the genie / the pirate ship / blackbeard

- rum into milk / get ready for action / pink fog

- changing course / battle at sea

- katrina captured

- at sea / hiding / bubble gum grub

- changing course again / revolting pirates

- a bounty of mutiny / ill make him tell

- weve gotta get out of here

- jimmy and katrina escape / blackbeard in pursuit

- back to the present / end title

- attack of the puppet people

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[scorefun]

Ich besitze die LP "Starlog Records SR-1001", auf der eine knapp 18-minütige Suite

vertreten ist. Diese habe ich als sehr unterhaltsam und pompös in Erinnerung...

Wäre eine Überlegung wert...wenn man wüßte, was Kimmel unter "very short" versteht...

(ich habe ihn mal angeschrieben)

[Gast Stefan Jania]

...wenn man wüßte, was Kimmel unter "very short" versteht...

(ich habe ihn mal angeschrieben)

Kimmel weiß wohl schon, warum er nie Laufzeiten auf seinen CDs und bei seinen Ankündigungen angibt. Und wenn er mal von einer Gesamtlaufzeit in einer Vorankündigung spricht, ist die CD später doch erheblich kürzer (siehe Legend Of The Lost).

[Bernd Junker]

Lieber wenig auf einer CD, als überhaupt nichts.

[neo]

Irgendwie erinnert mich das Cover ein wenig an Monkey Island

[Bernd Junker]

Irgendwie erinnert mich das Cover ein wenig an Monkey Island

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