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elieve Jon Davison) was asked why he got into this project, and replied, “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.” Prophetic statement if you think about it—except that he should’ve forgot the word, “good”! Probably he should’ve deleted “idea” as well, unless he meant a lousy or crappy idea. How Phil Tippett (as director) got involved in this awful movie is beyond me. That Morgan & Stromberg ever allowed themselves to be involved with this disgusting mess surprises me. I would’ve been red-faced embarrassed if I were a composer even asked to compose for this lousy and (once again) UGLY picture—let alone actually writing a score! I’d eat a big bug rather than be anyhow involved in this excuse of a movie. I believe Stromberg did most of the music, and he deserves good credit trying to give it his all or best under the circumstances (I think, anyways) so I’ll give the music a passable three-star rating. But even the best composer in the world could not dress up this rotting, disgusting corpse of a movie. If Herrmann were shown a picture like this, he would have yelled, “Why are you showing me garbage like this!” and storm out of the screening room. You could offer me $100,000 or even a million dollars, and I would run as fast as I could from this project. Being associated with such a film might stick to you like icky, smelly crushed bug guts, and possibly hurt your reputation and prospects for being offered future serious works of merit [It’s very hard trying to be kind to a movie like this!]. Watching this movie again on my dvd player was a waste of an hour & a half of my life that I will never get back. Phil Tippett I believe comments at 20 or 21 minutes into the dvd about Stromberg & Morgan. He stated that it was fun to have “Steineresque” music applied to this film. ???? Please don’t associate Max Steiner’s name with a project like this. I discussed the music back in 2004 on Talking Herrmann. I was more generous towards the music then than now but basically recommending that you hear the music on a cd—AWAY from the movie itself! Remember that I made that music review in 2004 BEFORE I ever saw the ugly (four-letter word) movie. Anyway, here is the link: http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1591 Then later the movie was shown on STARZ. Here’s the new Talking Herrmann discussion on the film: http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1702 I like Stromberg’s Fednet theme that is quite masculine, strong, and martial. I believe it starts off in the C major (C/E/G) tonality played by 8 horns, 4 trombones, 2 tubas and strings. The rhythmic figures are played by snare drums, tenor drum, grand cassa and tams. He liberally uses the quarter-tone glisses device of the strings in some cues like “Tail O’ The Bug” along with other “alien” musical effects. Herrmann rarely (if ever!) used quarter-tones in his music but it got quite popularized (and over-used) once John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and others started using the technique. Once again, run as fast as you can from this movie! Don’t waste your money or your time on it! I was exceptionally disappointed and turned off by it. Why should an 138
audience that hates a movie be nice and forgiving in their review? It deserves to be irretrievably pooped on by those ugly big bugs depicted in the movie. -Fiend Without A Face (1957) ** � [music ***] http://www.amazon.com/Fiend-Without-Face-Criterion- Collection/dp/B00004Z1FN/ref=sr_1_1?s=moviestv&ie=UTF8&qid=1310669038&sr=1-1 This is certainly an atmospheric sci-fi movie, rather scary at times. I particularly found the sound effects of the brain creatures creepy! It’s a sort of “ugly” movie (fourletter word!) but it has a certain cult status, especially with the stop-motion effects used. I can’t really say I “like” this film. It has some good scary features (like the original The Fly) but they are sort of ugly films, and what’s the point of making it? -Bowling for Columbine (2002) **** http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Columbine-Michael- Caldwell/dp/B00008DDVV/ref=sr_1_2?s=moviestv&ie=UTF8&qid=1310671442&sr=1-2 This is an Oscar-winning documentary by Michael Moore. It deserved it. It was, very importantly, both informative and highly entertaining. I like this one better than Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore should’ve been in front of the camera more) and better even than Sicko. I may get the dvd of Sicko since it has an extra hour of material and other special features. My wife & I saw Capitalism: A Love Story at the theater and liked it but not terrifically. Moore taking an armored truck to the entrance of a bank to retrieve lost money was a pretty lame gimmick! Inside Job was better, more potent in the same message. In fact it won the 2010 best documentary award. -The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) *** [music ***] http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Story-Ever-Told- Movie/dp/B0002BO05S/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1310673613&sr=1-1 I’ve got book the special dvd and also the cd set. I appreciate the efforts put into this picture but it can also be titled The Slowest Movie Ever Told. George Stevens directed a snoozer! You are guaranteed to get a lot of ZZZZzzzzzzz’s here! Someone needed to put a fire under this movie, heat it up a little! I discussed the score briefly in a few of my blogs: http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/blogs/6.pdf http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/blogs/39.pdf -Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) **** 1/2 [music *****] http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Robin-Hood-Two-Disc- Special/dp/B00005JKEZ/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1292881630&sr=1-1 139
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Bill Wrobel’s DVD Collection, Rev
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need to spend time on since I had a
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night. Karnes and the skipper and u
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There is a nice effect in Bar 18 (0
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play this an octave higher register
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have a sweet theme for a major fema
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Bb/Line 1 D staccato notes, while h
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Runs. -Reel 6/2 (#40465), Agitato i
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music by Thomas Newman, well, it’
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the full score was not in that box
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4) F tenuto half note to E to F ten
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By the way, the instrumentation for
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Check out this website for the movi
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especially in stressful and even mi
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to F up to Line 3 C 8ths down to (B
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music for the first time. The writt
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quarter note. After an 8 th rest in
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The next cue is “Tiger” (locate
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The opening of the Main Title by Jo
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http://www.amazon.com/Quatermass-Pi
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Reel 2 a) CHIMNEY SWEEP (Kennedy) P
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(followed by two quarter rests). Af
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-Northwest Frontier (1959) ** [musi
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at the end of Reel 1 is a.) Marsell
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I purchased this dvd from Warner Ar
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Steiner) starting at 00:10:51. Next
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I never did pull the written music,
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Nice, sharp print of the dvd, fine
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8. Trade Winds (Cliff Friend-Charli
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[Super Bowl Sunday, February 06, 20
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next four bars. After an 8 th rest
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half notes and 8 th notes (followed
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tied to 8 th notes (followed by an
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note held fermata. End of cue. The
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says, “My hero.” Dvd location i
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http://www.amazon.com/Dive-Bomber-E
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I am still watching the movie on my
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techniques in 1950 (the year I was
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As for the music, I really like the
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inforzando-marked ( > ) 8ths notes
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This is a curious movie, rather enj
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notes to (Bar 1) middle C rinforzan
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-Skipping to Reel 6/5. 18 pages, 70
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Page 117 and 118: -Hollow Man (2000) ** 1/2 [music **
Page 119 and 120: “I’m A Genius” [R1/4] 20 bars
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Page 169 and 170: Another very good Jack Webb product
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Bar 14 strings I believe play a ser
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sheep, and then more horses were sc
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although it is no classic. There’
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Kubrick and ultimately Spielberg wa
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Pope. “David Studies Monica” [1
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Violins I in 4/4 time sound p Line
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-A Talk With Hitchcock (1964) *** h
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interesting with the operation scen
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[The Fight] Reel 5/1, Agitato in C
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[Revelation/Herd] I believe part of
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Good DePalma movie (but not great)
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Incidentally, you can see Young bei
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http://www.amazon.com/Sling-Blade-D
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http://www.amazon.com/Return-Vampir
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After a half rest in Bar 3, violas
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“flaw” for some people is the
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I actually studied the full score a
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[Brookfield School Song] :43 durati
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[Vienna Inn Scene] Cue # 7058 (also
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B up to Line 1 D to F# legato quart
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interesting scenes. Hawks took off
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http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Seal-
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“Main Title” Reel 1/1, 10 pages
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down to Line 1 Bb 16ths. Violas plu
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two bars to (Bar 10) D whole note (
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In Bar 16 (dvd 00:05:15) we come to
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E-F-F#-A legato 16ths (silent next
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to-be ex-partner, get the money to
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(followed by an 8 th rest) to F/mid
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to sniff out Sue who has stopped ne
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gliss line down to small octave E t
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(followed by two 8 th rests) to the
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“Can Can Part 3” Cue # 35129. K
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Skipping slightly to Bar 195 (dvd 1
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notes and then Bb-G half notes to (
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Ever Told, etc). Again, too bad. I
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This is a decent sci-fi movie but a
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Included in this set are the first
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http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/he
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For about $140 million you will exp
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small octave D/G to same D/G to D/G
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notes (followed by a quarter and ha
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Neal meet. The dialog in that scene
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Of special merit in this dvd Specia
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(followed by a quarter rest) to (ne
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-# 2B “Bye Bye Charlie” in �
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sleazy role, and Greenstreet contin
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9followed by an 8 th rest) to same
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one next. ….So far, after watchin
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and David Hedison. The scifi disast
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-The Wrong Man (1956) *** [music **
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ask? Too bad Columbo wasn’t aroun
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-Spaceballs (1987) *** 7/8 [music *
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-“Driving Home” Reel �. Andan
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-Reel 6/1 Revised “When Johnny Co
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http://books.google.com/books?id=sr
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appetizer, no desert). If you’ve
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I can’t say I like this bleak Ing
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plays p ascending legato 16ths Grea
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Bar 19 to play Line 1 G#-A#-B-Line
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The movie never appealed to me but
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the busy-body lady tells people tha
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numbers in Calamity Jane, however!
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I reviewed this dvd on Talking Herr
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yarn) starring the excellent Johnny
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ehearsal of the fight that somehow
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classic!). I loved the actors such
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Back to Poledouris, I would recomme
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“rolling stream ostinati” that
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I discussed my September and Octobe
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The gong is struck in Bar 5.The cym
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Bb/F quarter notes to C/Eb quarter
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[cont.] Vacation Trip] Reel 7/1, 6
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Reel 12 material starts with “Sem
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http://www.lovingtheclassics.com/Je
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-Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) ** 1/2
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eturning in Bar 4 on middle Cb [wri
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3 & 5. Violins I play Line 3 F# who
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note tied to next two bars. Bottom
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Eb dotted half note tied to quarter
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Line 2 Bb dotted half note to A qua
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he got loose. Of course if the writ
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from her store! Ironically, conside
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Shakespeare, however, and most of t
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note to (Bar 3) F# [written G#] who
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00:59:52) is quite nice, especially
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cinematography and Lean’s expert
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http://www.amazon.com/Naked-City-Yo
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note tied to “3” triplet value
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In Bar 1 the timp is rolled on C wh
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This is not a good conspiracy movie
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-“The Doomsday Machine” -‘Met
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Season Three, “Love’s Old Sweet
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as the bus rising along the desert
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There are five discs here starting
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-The Naked Jungle (1954) *** [music
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his best works. Let’s put it this
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http://www.amazon.com/Drums-Deep-So
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I did like the bluish star field lo
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effect of I believe the stopped hor
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Richard Boone as the good doctor pr
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http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Bu
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Page Cook (his real name was Charle
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Shortly in Bar 6 the piccolo plays
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phrasing of Line 1 F legato down to
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http://www.amazon.com/French-Connec
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-The Raid (1954) *** � [music ***
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