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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Wed May 02, 2018 7:41 pm ] |
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INTRADA Announces: HARPER Composed and Conducted by JOHNNY MANDEL INTRADA ISC 406 The 1966 Warner Bros. film Harper features a Johnny Mandel score that original LP liner note writer Stan Cornyn describes as unlike any other he has composed in his notable career. Mandel wrote music to "play whenever you didn’t expect it, and to be quiet whenever everybody expects music." The resulting moods capture the feeling of the times and the film, with novel sound mixtures (Novachord and woodwinds), funky uneducated background (an electric guitar), and a range of sounds from bossa nova to a Hammond organ waltz to a “Tijuana Brass." This is the premiere CD release of the soundtrack album to Harper, originally issued on the Mainstream label at the time of the film’s release in 1966. As with Intrada's previous titles from the dynamic Time, Mainstream and Ava Records catalogs, Intrada presents this stylish Johnny Mandel soundtrack from the first-generation session mixes used to master and manufacture the original vinyl records. The masters made for Harper were recorded and mixed by Dan Wallin and originally mastered by Mainstream’s engineer Gene Thompson. As such, this Intrada CD features crisp, punchy stereo audio with great instrumental detail and dynamic range. Harper was the first produced screenplay by author William Goldman, who would go on to write such hits as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and The Princess Bride (the latter based on his own book). It is a tale of corruption, greed and murder. After a wealthy woman realizes her husband is missing, she hires Archer to find him. He discovers that the man was kidnapped, and in the process uncovers an unrelated crime and a few secret relationships. INTRADA ISC 406 Barcode: 7 20258 54060 7 Retail Price: $15.99 SHIPPING NOW For track listing and sound samples, please visit: http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.11509/.f |
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| Author: | litefoot [ Thu May 03, 2018 1:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Johnny Mandel's HARPER |
Thank you for adding the announcement threads.
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| Author: | chriss [ Sat May 05, 2018 4:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Johnny Mandel's HARPER |
Thanks for releasing, ordered!  Is this a re-recording of the score done for the album back then? |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Sun May 06, 2018 12:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Johnny Mandel's HARPER |
| Author: | chriss [ Thu May 10, 2018 9:59 am ] |
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| Author: | Douglass Fake [ Thu May 10, 2018 6:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Johnny Mandel's HARPER |
Actually I believe it's the actual soundtrack, albeit Johnny Mandel made expected creative choices in choosing takes and whatnot. I do hear changes in the Main Title mixes. In any case, the Mainstream label didn't typically finance any re-recordings per se, so most of their soundtracks were in fact soundtracks: The Blue Max, The Collector, The Wrong Box, King Rat, Harper, The Trouble With Angels, The Heroes Of Telemark, That Man In Istanbul and others. Stagecoach was a rare example of the album being a total re-recording, and this may have been a result of Goldsmith and Fox making creative or financial decisions, not Mainstream, though I speculate here. But Harper mostly uses what Warner Bros. and engineer Dan Wallin recorded during the film scoring sessions, though they may have made certain takes with the album (rather than film) in mind. I can't swear to any of this re Harper but it's certainly Mainstream's typical method of operations. Sure makes for a cool album in any case. --Doug |
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| Author: | chriss [ Fri May 11, 2018 8:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Johnny Mandel's HARPER |
Thank you for the explanation, Doug! I had the album for Stagecoach in mind when asking this. |
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| Author: | WorkingWithKnives [ Sat May 12, 2018 11:41 am ] |
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It's one of the best. I have mono and stereo pressings of the LP and will get ahold of the disc. It's technicolor cool and enjoyable, I have fond memories of listening to this music through loudspeakers on warm summer evenings. Quite a contrast to the vibe in the air nowadays. |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Mon May 14, 2018 3:46 am ] |
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| Author: | chriss [ Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:07 am ] |
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Finally received this, the sound quality is stunning. One minor quibble. In the booklet (p. 3): The Maltese Falcon was composed by Adolph Deutsch and not by Max Steiner. My favorite Noir score btw.! 
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:29 am ] |
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