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INTRADA Announces:



THE LONELY GUY
Music by JERRY GOLDSMITH
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For the 1984 Universal Studios film The Lonely Guy, composer Jerry Goldsmith composed a lighthearted score, dominated by a sweet love theme. The theme is first featured over the film's opening credits in the form of a vocal ("Love Comes Without Warning) performed by America — a melody that begins with a melancholy, seven-note phrase and variations before turning into a rhythmic, pop-flavored song.Goldsmith wrote a number of treatments of this theme for keyboard and solo piano, giving the score a unified feel that centers around Steve Martin’s character. As is evident from the numerous alternates on this CD, the film was a challenging, perhaps even grueling assignment, with the composer forced to record numerous approaches to several cues, often making changes and revisions on the recording stage during sessions.

Previously released only on an MCA LP back at the time of the film's release, it was a mini-LP, featuring four vocals and two of Goldsmith's score cuts. With the generous cooperation of Universal Music Group and Universal Studios, Intrada accessed all of the stereo music elements from 1/4″, 1/2″ and 2″ 24-track elements to put a comprehensive album together featuring Goldsmith's charming, wistful, and playful score. It's infectious and good-natured, and perhaps the last Jerry Goldsmith LP to find its way onto CD.

The Lonely Guy was based on The Lonely Guy’s Book of Life, a non-fiction book by Bruce Jay Friedman. The late Neil Simon spun off a screenplay loosely based on Friedman’s ideas, following lonely guy Larry Hubbard (Steve Martin) in New York City, where “Lonely Guy” is an established class of persons and where Hubbard commiserates with other Lonely Guys such as milquetoast Warren Evans (Charles Grodin). He also endures excruciating bad fortune with women such as his ex-girlfriend Danielle (Robin Douglas) and Iris (Judith Ivey), ex-wife of another Lonely Guy—who apparently hasn’t had sex despite six previous marriages.

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One of Goldsmith's many compositional talents is setting up otherwise dumb songs to become something positively catchy (i.e., great melody triumphing over awful lyrics). Such is the case with "Love Comes Without Warning."

Always nice to ear another new Goldsmith. Thank you!!

Thank you Intrada & Universal for another fine project, well done guys/gals.
They say good things comes to those who wait, and the wait in this case was well worth it.

This is a wonderful release!
To have a never before available Goldsmith score in complete form on a pristine new CD is like a dream come true.
Thank you so very much Intrada!

I've spun this about four times today and the word delightful comes to mind. I've heard this score described as minor in JG's library of work, but I don't see/hear it that way. It's as peppy and full of heart as any of his comedy scores. Its central themes with all their variations in mood and tone, so easily switching between light and airy to sad and contemplative, are extremely enjoyable, especially now hearing them so clearly outside the film mix. I seem to recall one of the themes was used a fair number of times in several trailers for other films of the era, and it was always effective.

Thank you, Intrada! This release was SO worth the effort and it is much appreciated.

Not having seen the movie (yet !) or heard the score before, this title is quite infectious.
Almost has an Necessary Roughness appeal to it (IMO)
Thanks again Intrada for releasing this Goldsmith gem.

Good job on this one as usual guys, but I wish the real National Enquirer-style true story about WHY, apparently the composer himself, was so gonzo revising this one could come out. Doug's notes imply it was all Jerry, revising 2 second passages - and that opening, so meticulous!
Not implying anything negative, it's just curious. That dude was the consummate craftsman, very sorely missed, still. Thanks Intrada for keeping his music alive.