Intrada Soundtrack Forum

It took me a little while to find out that Robert O. Ragland had passed away. I've been listening to Intrada's reissue of the Varese LP for 10 to Midnight. It is one of the better films that Mr. Ragland composed music for. But, there are some lesser known scores of his that deserve attention.

Ragland's score for the 1976 horror/thriller film Grizzly is both beautiful and enthralling. Released on LP, this is a prime candidate for CD treatment.

The 1986 schlock film The Supernaturals provided Ragland the unique opportunity to write a score that partially stuck to both military and horror conventions in film scoring. The film is awful, but the score is quite good, and as far as I know, never released on any format.

Grizzly sample:


The Supernaturals:

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Most Wanted: Moonraker - complete; Inside Moves (John Barry), Volunteers; The Hand; Brainstorm - complete (James Horner); MacArthur; Supergirl -expanded (Jerry Goldsmith).

These two are very good titles... I would add one more... a more complete version of Messenger of Death. Marvelous orchestral and choral score.

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"And if anyone releases it on CD, they've got to use the poster art which rocked."

The international art is pretty cool too ...

I suspect that The Supernaturals would get a lot of support if it were released and brought to more people's attention. As I alluded to earlier, the score's military and horror pastiche is really pleasant to listen to and as a whole provides something quite different.

For those interested, the nice song used during the end credits of The Supernaturals is called "Live Again." The music for the song was written by Ragland and the vocals are performed by Sunny Wilkinson.

include Maurice Gibb's rejected score to "The Supernaturals"[/b], too. Would make an interesting comparrison between approaches.

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I'll buy a potential copy...

Both Grizzly and The Supernaturals.

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Most Wanted Unreleased scores:
Howard Shore's AN INNOCENT MAN (1989) Touchstone/Buena Vista
Richard Halligan's THE OCTAGON (1980) American Cinema
Sante Maria Romitelli's GOD'S GUN (1976) MGM/Cannon
Trevor Jones' FREEJACK (1992) Morgan Creek

I think it's really strange that a score like Grizzly has never been on CD.

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My Intrada wish list:

The Outfit (Fielding)
The Other Side of the Mountain I (Charles Fox)


and extremely unlikely, but...
Junior Bonner
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

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Most Wanted: Moonraker - complete; Inside Moves (John Barry), Volunteers; The Hand; Brainstorm - complete (James Horner); MacArthur; Supergirl -expanded (Jerry Goldsmith).

I own the two different LP releases of Grizzly. You need both to have all the music available. A CD of the score should present the music complete and chronological.

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My Intrada wish list:

The Outfit (Fielding)
The Other Side of the Mountain I (Charles Fox)


and extremely unlikely, but...
Junior Bonner
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

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I´VE COME HERE TO DRINK COCONUTS AND *censour*...AND I´M ALL OUT OF COCONUTS...

I´m a dirt merchant and a figure of your imagination