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INTRADA Announces:



99 44/100% DEAD
Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI

INTRADA Special Collection Volume 133

For Intrada's latest release from the 20th Century Fox archives comes Henry Mancini's 99 44/100% Dead, a crazy satire that needed a spirited score to go with it. Mancini leaps into the fray with a potent, muscular “Main Title,” with its driving, buzzing guitar and dark brass. It sets the tone for everything else to come. In full satiric mode, comes “Hangin’ Out” -- a cheery little ditty, complete with player piano and virtuoso whistling—and a sign that the composer’s skills as a change-up artist are going to be on full display. It’s followed by the film’s theme song, “Easy Baby,” a soulful number with lyrics by the esteemed team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Mancini’s serious side is evident in a pair of full-fledged suspense cues: “New Shoes” and “The Kid and the Pro,” both eerie synth compositions, their telegraphic opening notes taken up by weirdly fuzzy keyboards, spare and spooky. And there's a whole lot more. In the case of 99 44/100% Dead, Mancini over and over, for scene after scene, set the tone—and along the way, moment by moment, crafted music that, for pure pleasure, can proudly stand on its own.

The film takes place in a strange, vaguely futuristic world, in which hoods do their dirty deeds decked out in dapper suit-and-tie ensembles; gang leaders with names like Uncle Frank (Edmond O’Brien) and Big Eddie (Bradford Dillman) commandeer soldiers who tote their weapons in instrument cases; women are either schoolteachers by day/exotic dancers by night or full-time hookers; and weirdly, wildly opposing hit-men square off: a strong, silent, faintly intellectual type (Richard Harris) versus a big brute (Chuck Connors) whose mechanical hand features a zany array of snap-on attachments.This is the surreal universe of 99 44/100% Dead, with a score that musically captures all of this insansity.

This release is limited to 1200 units.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 133
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE 5/24/2010
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6608/.f

Based on the samples posted in the pre-release thread, I know I'll enjoy this. Ordered!

Wonderful, thanks Intrada! Ordered, good night!

Ordered! Thank you!

70's wacka-wacka against electric bass!

Aaah!

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DavidinBerkeley

"Ask [the director] where the camera comes from and I'll tell him where the music comes from" (David Raksin)

First THE HAWAIIANS.

Now DEAD.

Can JACQUELINE SUSANN'S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH be far behind??

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DavidinBerkeley

"Ask [the director] where the camera comes from and I'll tell him where the music comes from" (David Raksin)

Received my copy of 99 And 44/100% Dead! today.

The theme, Hangin' Out, originally released on the Mancini recording Hangin' Out With Henry Mancini, is performed on the LP by The Moldy Seven.

Check out Hank's far out Nehru jacket...



Funny you should mention that, because this wasn't the title we decided to premiere that way (that was is still a month away). This title was originally going to be paired with another title, but licensing didn't work out, although we did manage to find some supplemental material to round out the presentation.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

While I had applauded Intrada earlier for the decision to do an upcoming release as an all-new "LP version" followed by the remainder of the score as bonus tracks, I have to say how perfect a choice of score this was to premiere this format. Nick Redman did a great job of mimicking the feel of a Mancini LP, and yet all the dramatic music is there to savor as well.

Nice, clean mono transfers as well.

As for the music… it's Mancini. Enough said.

BRAVO!!!

I'm really happy for Intrada to see the sales of this going so well, hopefully we'll get more Mancini in the future.