DonDiego is an old man. He has heard a lot of soundtracks. Even little DonDiego liked soundtracks, so old DonDiego has some vinyl soundtracks in his house that are 50-years-old or more.
It's sorta difficult to sort through all he's heard, . . . but he'll try to remember his favorites.
Here's a few of his all-time really, really favorites:
__Ben Hur (1959) [The second movie DonDiego remembers seeing with his parents in a theater.]
__The Godfather (1972 and later) by Nino Rota. Oh my! Has it been 40 years ? ? ?
__Lawrence of Arabia (1962) by Maurice Jarre'
__Rocky (1976) by Bill Conti
__The White Dawn (1974) by Henry Mancini [This is a little gem of a film which stays in DonDiego's head but is seldom found elsewhere; he often hums the main theme without thinking about it.]
__Cool Hand Luke (1964) by Lalo Schriffin [DonDiego learned "Plastic Jesus" from this film.]
__Jerimiah Johnson (1972) by John Rubenstein and Tim McIntire
__The Mission (1986) by Ennio Morricone
__Patton (1970) by Jerry Goldsmith
__Last of the Mohicans (1992) by Trevor Jones [This soundtrack was a collaboration; Mr. Jones did the good parts.]
__Wyatt Earp (1994) by James Newton Howard - maybe DonDiego favorite western.
__Rain Man (1988) numerous artists; it's all good.
__The Right Stuff (1983) numerous artists; DonDiego didn't care much for this film when it came out, but it has grown on him over the years, as has the music.
__True Grit (2010) numerous artists; mostly based on 18th-century church music with some original scoring by Carter Burwell; the music suited the movie and made it better, . . . and DonDiego is a sucker for a good cowboy-picture anytime. [n.b. This is a film made is this millennium !]
But DonDiego still likes lots of other soundtracks, . . . like fr'instance:
__King Rat (1965) and The Black Hole (1979) by John Barry. The former a prisoner of war movie nobody else remembers with a memorable march as a theme song and the latter a horrible sci-fi movie from the Disney Studios, but with a repetitive main theme that sticks in poor old DonDiego's brain.
__Mr. Barry is also responsible for the music in most of the early James Bond films ca 1962 and later; great stuff ! Wait a minute, . . . that's 50 years ago ! ! !
__Elmer Bernstein's The Ten Commandments (1956) [8-year-old DonDiego saw this one with his parents.], The Magnificent Seven (1960), and The Great Escape (1963).
__Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen (1976), Bandolero (1968) [with another clipitty-clop cowboy theme that just keeps swirling about in DonDiego's cranium], and Planet of the Apes (1968)
__Maurice Jarre's The Collector (1965) and The Train (1964).
__Ennio Moriconne's Clint Eastwood spaghetti-western trilogy ca 1967 and later, and Once Upon a Time In The West (1968), and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
__Mario Nascimbene's Barabbas (1961) especially track 3: "Eclipse", and The Vikings (1958) another haunting theme; DonDiego still remembers Kirk Douglas "dancing" along the Viking long-boat's oars.
__Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer (1979) another little remembered, seldom seen, . . . perhaps only remembered by DonDiego film - actually a remake of the French film The Wages of Fear which is occasionally shown on a movie channel; if one likes Tangerine Dream one would like this soundtrack.
__Dimitri Tiomkin's The Alamo (1960) and 55 Days At Peking (1963) including a memorable discordant melding of numerous national anthems.
__John Williams' Star Wars filmscores ca 1977 and later, Jaws (1975), and Dracula (1979).
__A special mention to the greatest director of all time Stanley Kubrik who produced memorable soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange (1971) from classical compositions and Walter Carlos electronic music and Barry Lyndon (1975) comprising selections from Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Schubert, Handel, et al capturing the elegance and gentility of 18th century European aristocracy. Although DonDiego includes 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) among his all-time favorite films, he doesn't especially enjoy the soundtrack.
This has been a DonDiego Production.
It's sorta difficult to sort through all he's heard, . . . but he'll try to remember his favorites.
Here's a few of his all-time really, really favorites:
__Ben Hur (1959) [The second movie DonDiego remembers seeing with his parents in a theater.]
__The Godfather (1972 and later) by Nino Rota. Oh my! Has it been 40 years ? ? ?
__Lawrence of Arabia (1962) by Maurice Jarre'
__Rocky (1976) by Bill Conti
__The White Dawn (1974) by Henry Mancini [This is a little gem of a film which stays in DonDiego's head but is seldom found elsewhere; he often hums the main theme without thinking about it.]
__Cool Hand Luke (1964) by Lalo Schriffin [DonDiego learned "Plastic Jesus" from this film.]
__Jerimiah Johnson (1972) by John Rubenstein and Tim McIntire
__The Mission (1986) by Ennio Morricone
__Patton (1970) by Jerry Goldsmith
__Last of the Mohicans (1992) by Trevor Jones [This soundtrack was a collaboration; Mr. Jones did the good parts.]
__Wyatt Earp (1994) by James Newton Howard - maybe DonDiego favorite western.
__Rain Man (1988) numerous artists; it's all good.
__The Right Stuff (1983) numerous artists; DonDiego didn't care much for this film when it came out, but it has grown on him over the years, as has the music.
__True Grit (2010) numerous artists; mostly based on 18th-century church music with some original scoring by Carter Burwell; the music suited the movie and made it better, . . . and DonDiego is a sucker for a good cowboy-picture anytime. [n.b. This is a film made is this millennium !]
But DonDiego still likes lots of other soundtracks, . . . like fr'instance:
__King Rat (1965) and The Black Hole (1979) by John Barry. The former a prisoner of war movie nobody else remembers with a memorable march as a theme song and the latter a horrible sci-fi movie from the Disney Studios, but with a repetitive main theme that sticks in poor old DonDiego's brain.
__Mr. Barry is also responsible for the music in most of the early James Bond films ca 1962 and later; great stuff ! Wait a minute, . . . that's 50 years ago ! ! !
__Elmer Bernstein's The Ten Commandments (1956) [8-year-old DonDiego saw this one with his parents.], The Magnificent Seven (1960), and The Great Escape (1963).
__Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen (1976), Bandolero (1968) [with another clipitty-clop cowboy theme that just keeps swirling about in DonDiego's cranium], and Planet of the Apes (1968)
__Maurice Jarre's The Collector (1965) and The Train (1964).
__Ennio Moriconne's Clint Eastwood spaghetti-western trilogy ca 1967 and later, and Once Upon a Time In The West (1968), and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
__Mario Nascimbene's Barabbas (1961) especially track 3: "Eclipse", and The Vikings (1958) another haunting theme; DonDiego still remembers Kirk Douglas "dancing" along the Viking long-boat's oars.
__Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer (1979) another little remembered, seldom seen, . . . perhaps only remembered by DonDiego film - actually a remake of the French film The Wages of Fear which is occasionally shown on a movie channel; if one likes Tangerine Dream one would like this soundtrack.
__Dimitri Tiomkin's The Alamo (1960) and 55 Days At Peking (1963) including a memorable discordant melding of numerous national anthems.
__John Williams' Star Wars filmscores ca 1977 and later, Jaws (1975), and Dracula (1979).
__A special mention to the greatest director of all time Stanley Kubrik who produced memorable soundtracks for A Clockwork Orange (1971) from classical compositions and Walter Carlos electronic music and Barry Lyndon (1975) comprising selections from Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Schubert, Handel, et al capturing the elegance and gentility of 18th century European aristocracy. Although DonDiego includes 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) among his all-time favorite films, he doesn't especially enjoy the soundtrack.
This has been a DonDiego Production.
