RANDOM HARVEST / THE YEARLING

Label: FSMCD Vol.9 No.13
Date: 1942/1946
Tracks: 31
Time = 78:31

Original soundtracks from two MGM classics scored by Herbert Stothart. RANDOM HARVEST (29:07) utilizes familiar English "wedding hymn" amongst original Stothart scoring, THE YEARLING (33:41) features original music by Stothart with interpolations of Frederick Delius. Stothart writes in late 19th Century idiom but imbues melodies with surprising degree of sophisticated harmony, chromaticism. Initial score carries more complex melodic shape of the two, adds slight ambiguity to harmonic scheme. Latter score offers broad melody (from Delius material) plus highly accessible harmony but gets extra interest from plethora of busy runs, trills, other florid ideas for woodwinds, upper strings. Both works represent roughly half of the scores, drawn from surviving master elements. Herbert Stothart conducts.

RANDOM HARVEST 1. Opening Title & Asylum (3:05) 2. Addenda to Her Decision (2:01) 3. Little Marriage (1:03) 4. Kitty Continued/Kitty Grows Up (3:28) 5. At the Savoy/Dreams at the Savoy (4:32) 6. Voice That Breathed O'er Eden/Wedding Remembrance (O Perfect Love)/Someone You Once Knew (5:38) 7. Prime Minister Reception (1:28) 8. Try to Remember/Finale (7:31) THE YEARLING 9. Opening Title/Foreward/April 1878 (6:31) 10. Addenda to Feelin' the Sun (0:39) 11. Crippled Boy (1:07) 12. Birds and Angels (1:35) 13. A Farmer Comes to Town (1:32) 14. What Happened to You (1:15) 15. Material for a New Dress (0:34) 16. Obliged to Make It (2:26) 17. It's Me! Jody! (3:15) 18. To Find a Name (4:33) 19. Thy Will Be Done (1:13) 20. The Sun (1:00) 21. Little Farmer (2:08) 22. Ma, I'm Hungry (2:28) 23. Mother & End Title (Alternate Version)/Addendum (4:33) THE YEARLING -Bonus Tracks- 24. Title Fanfare/Opening Title (Instrumental)/Foreword (Long Version)(2:19) 25. Fawn Ballet Chorus Addenda (1:43) 26. Thy Will Be Done (Alternate Mix)(1:15) 27. Hungry (Insert-Revised Vocal)(0:44) 28. Mother & End Title (Alternate Fragments)(0:49) RANDOM HARVEST -Bonus Tracks- 29. Opening Title & Asylum (Instrumental)(3:05) 30. Tobacco Shop Meeting/Medley/Leaving Biffers (Incomplete Mixes)(2:57) 31. She Is My daisy (Source Music)(2:19)