World premiere 2-CD set of original soundtrack music from colorful Nathan Juran fantasy with Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Judi Meredith. Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter create fantastic, energetic score for full orchestra in full-color fantasy mode! Battles with giants, other monsters of all shape and size get rousing cues replete with swirling strings, blazing brass. Highly tuneful, heroic main theme anchors. Dazzling ideas follow. Intrada presents complete score in crisp mono sound from master elements sourced by MGM, Taylor White of Percepto Records. Colorful packaging plus liner notes from Jeff Bond are icing on the cake! Paul Sawtell conducts. Intrada Special Collection release limited to 1000 copies! SOLD OUT!
World premiere 2-CD set of original soundtrack music from colorful Nathan Juran fantasy with Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Judi Meredith. Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter create fantastic, energetic score for full orchestra in full-color fantasy mode! Battles with giants, other monsters of all shape and size get rousing cues replete with swirling strings, blazing brass. Highly tuneful, heroic main theme anchors. Dazzling ideas follow. Intrada presents complete score in crisp mono sound from master elements sourced by MGM, Taylor White of Percepto Records. Colorful packaging plus liner notes from Jeff Bond are icing on the cake! Paul Sawtell conducts. Intrada Special Collection release limited to 1000 copies!
01. Main Title (3:20) 02. The Present (6:41) 03. The Giant (6:44) 04. Jack Kills Giant (3:06) 05. Garna's Report (2:17) 06. The Lady Constance (4:04) 07. The Sea Voyage (3:29) 08. The Wind Witch (6:50) 09. Elaine Transforms (4:55) 10. The Mirror (1:17) 11. Jack and Peter Rescued (0:54)
This CD marks the world premiere release
of the colorful and exciting score for Jack The Giant Killer, composed by Paul Sawtell and Bert
Shefter. The master tapes for the album come from a variety of sources, including excellent condition
mono transfers from ¼” tapes, additional cues stored on acetate discs, and separate choral
overlays kept on ¼” reels as well. The complete score has been preserved, including most (though
not all) of the choral overlays. Missing in action were a pair of overlays for the latter portion of
“The Wind Witch,” albeit those for the earlier portion of the cue were available and appear as
intended. Though we have attempted to minimize changes in the EQ and dynamics of the source
material, listeners will note a few myriad noises may still exist that could not be fully removed
without compromising the integrity of the master elements. Happily, the overall audio quality of
the source material was excellent.
The music in the film literally runs wall-to-wall. In fact, it runs roughly 81 minutes of the film’s
total 94-minute running time. Many of the shorter cues were edited together during post-production,
resulting in some very long musical sequences playing throughout several scene changes
without pause. Since the individual cues making up these longer sequences were composed with
the intent of being assembled as such in the finished film, we have largely duplicated those assemblies
– making for some very lengthy tracks. In one instance, however, this approach just would
not prove to be musical.
For the beautifully melodic, Steiner-esque music that plays during “The Sea Voyage,” Sawtell
& Shefter wrote a complete piece, which includes a strong beginning that slowly melts into a contrasting
middle section, then finally returns to a rich quote of the opening material. It was scored
and recorded as a complete piece of music. However, in the film, this sequence was interrupted
with a sudden edit into the storm sequence that ensues. The entire finish to the cue was simply
deleted. The edit into the storm portion of the cue as it appears in the film is largely masked,
courtesy the distractions of sound effects and visuals. We did not make any attempt to recreate this
one decidedly non-musical edit and elected instead to present the entire cue as originally written
and recorded.
Listen now to one of the most animated and exciting film scores to come from the sixties,
penned by a pair remarkable composers. Get ready for adventure and enjoy!
—Douglass Fake
Composed by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter and Conducted by Paul Sawtell.
Recorded on June 13 and 27, and August 8 and 9, 1961, at The Goldwyn Studio.
VIOLIN
Israel Baker
Victor Arno
Sol Babitz
Joachim Chassman
Harold Dicterow
Kurt Dieterle
Walter Edelstein
Elliot Fisher
Anatol Kaminsky
Bernard Kundell
Joseph Livoti
Dan Lube
Marshall Moss
Jack Pepper
Jerome Reisler
Jack Shulman
Marshall Sosson
Albert Steinberg
Heimann Weinstine
Harry Zagon
VIOLA
Maurice Keltz
Myer Bello
Donald Cole
Joe Di Fiore
Alvin Dinkin
Spinoza Paeff
CELLO
Ossip Giskin
Joe Di Tullio
Justin Di Tullio
Ray Kramer
Kolia Levienne
Emmett Sargeant
BASS
Mike Rubin
Kenneth Winstead
PIANO
Arthur Koch
PERCUSSION
Harry Neiderman
Lee Perrin
Lou Singer
HARP
Gail Laughton
Stanley Chaloupka
FLUTE
Roger S. Stevens
Louise Di Tullio
Leonard Possella
OBOE
Bert Gassman
Joe Fishman
CLARINET
Hugo Raimondi
Kalman Bloch
BASS CLARINET
Merritt Buxbaum
Michael P. Mangus
BASSOON
Don Christlieb
Adolph Weiss
CONTRABASSOON
Gerold Schon
HORNS
William Hinshaw
Arthur Briegleb
James Decker
Wendell Hoss
George W. Hyde
Sinclair Lott
Gale Robinson
TRUMPET
Pincus “Pinky” Savitt
Bernard Adelstein
Alex Golden
Manny Stevens
TROMBONE
Lloyd Ulyate
Hoyt Bohannon
Louis Castellucci
Charles E. Cowpland
Harold Diner
Sy Zeldin
TUBA
Clarence O. Karella
NOVACHORD
Chauncey Haines
Wesley B. Tourtellotte
ORCHESTRATOR
Bert Shefter
Max Reese
COPYIST
Dan Franklyn
Percival Goldenson
Bill Williams