INTRADA Announces Leonard Rosenman's THE CAR

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

INTRADA Announces:

THE CAR
Composed and Conducted by LEONARD ROSENMAN
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 306

For the 1977 Universal Picture The Car, composer Leonard Rosenman provided a thrilling score anchored around the medieval Dies Irae chant, signaling early on that this is no ordinary automobile on the loose, but a driverless and demonically possessed devil car. This is musically evident from the beginning, with a clanging chord to quickly reflect the arid, desolate look of the film’s desert setting, before low brass and contrabass clarinet intone the Dies Irae theme. The action set pieces, which make up the bulk of the score, are especially riveting, with the composer leading the orchestra at an unusually breakneck pace. The film afforded Rosenman the opportunity to compose some of the most wildly kinetic and fast-tempo music in Rosenman’s career.

For this release, Intrada was provided access to the original scoring session masters, recorded onto 1/2″ 15 ips three-channel tape at the Universal Studios scoring stage in January and February of 1977. Every roll of tape survived in pristine condition in Universal’s vaults.

In the film, a mysterious black car appears and begins picking off pedestrians in a small desert town. The devil is a Lincoln Continental Mark III, with two baleful headlight “eyes,” a sneering grill and a staccato, blaring car horn from Hell—all designed to terrify the victims it stalks in an isolated desert town in Utah. The film additionally stars James Brolin as Wade; grizzled tough guy John Marley as the town sheriff; perennial heavy R.G. Armstrong as an abusive husband; and Ronny Cox as an alcoholic deputy, Luke.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 306
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
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niall · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:48 pm

Another great release, well done Intrada. Ordered.

Mark Olivarez · **Joined:** Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:06 am **Posts:** 273

I never thought I would see this released. Somewhat of a Grail for me. Thank you so much for this release!

krankyboy · **Joined:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:56 am **Posts:** 148

Oh, man... I have waited since I was a little kid for this one. Thank you, Intrada.

Somehow, a twisted demon face of approval seems more befitting than the usual joyous happy emoticon, so --

:twisted:

JGOnline · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:12 am

One of my favourites from the 70s. Feared this was lost or only available in mono. Wonderful surprise. Well done all and thank you!

H TRAIN · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:25 am **Posts:** 539

This & Duel ORDERED

lima · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:39 am

Thank you so much. Amazing release!!!

Congratulations to you all.

You are the TOP! :mrgreen:

I have no words to describe my happiness.

Amazing!!!

CocoNut Joe · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:01 pm

this is an awesome release and a score I have wanted since i first saw the movie. Thanx for digging this up and letting the world hear this great Rosenman music

Nicolai P. Zwar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:26 am

I have waited a long time for this one... :-)

davidinberkeley · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 6:57 pm

We screamed for it. They listened.

Thank you, Intrada!

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2015 3:40 pm

This is a brilliant sounding recording, which based on other Intrada and some Varese releases, now seems to be par for the course for 60s and 70s Universal recordings. There is such an intense rawness and clarity to it all that greatly enhances the listening experience.

krankyboy · **Joined:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:56 am **Posts:** 148

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Sat Mar 14, 2015 12:45 pm

niall · **Posted:** Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:07 pm

I'm really enjoying The Car, an excellent Rosenman score. It's a fairly short score but that works in it's favour I feel.

Kooshmeister · **Joined:** Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:07 pm **Posts:** 17

Oh, yes, yes, yeeees! I love this movie and I've been hoping and praying the score would get released at some point! A definite purchase for me and in fact it just became my very first purchase directly from the Intrada site! :mrgreen:

Between the two versions of the cover, I definitely prefer the head on view of the car, as opposed to the original poster artwork.

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