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RIO CONCHOS/THE ARTIST WHO DID NOT WANT TO PAINT

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London Symphony Orchestra

 
RIO CONCHOS/THE ARTIST WHO DID NOT WANT TO PAINT
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    Jerry Goldsmith's music for the 1964 Gordon Douglas-directed Western Rio Conchos is a strange score for a Western, lacking any attractive central theme to bind together the material, much as the movie itself lacks a "hero" who one can identify with or root for. Instead, the music is mostly comprised of mood-setting effects passages, underscoring the dark doings of the plot rather than any broader, more accessible thematic arc to the movie. Some of what's here resembles the action cues that Goldsmith wrote for the series The Man from U.N.CL.E. The resulting music, despite some beautiful passages at times, is mostly very disjointed and will prove to be primarily of interest to Goldsmith completists, rather than to fans of great soundtrack music. The annotation is thorough, with the notes walking a fine edge trying to explain the shortcomings of the music. The producers have done a good job at remastering the monaural original source material and have augmented it with a series of short stereo mixes of the same material that have survived intact, and have also included Johnny Desmond's recording of the title song, which is almost a self-parody of the kind of Western theme songs that Frankie Laine used to record for movies.

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