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WAR WAGON, THE

WAR WAGON, THE
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    Dimitri Tiomkin
    Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 146
    Film Date: 1967
    Album Date: 2010
    Time: 0:43:41
    Tracks: 24
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    • At last! World premiere release of rousing Dimitri Tiomkin score for action-packed John Wayne western, presented by Universal Pictures, also starring Kirk Douglas, directed by Burt Kennedy. Intrada proudly offers complete score, newly mixed & mastered in full stereo from actual multi-track session masters stored in mint condition in Universal vaults. CD includes terrific opening "Ballad of The War Wagon", sung by Ed Ames. Happily, all "sweetener" elements also survived in perfect condition, allowing Intrada to remix all stereo chorus overdubs for main title, including additional harmonica & piano tracks! Tiomkin creates great main theme for armor-plated gold wagon, then fashions dynamic variations underlining preparations by Wayne & Douglas to destroy it along with villainous owner Bruce Cabot. Latter half of score features several incredible action set-pieces with Tiomkin in spectacular form as he nears end of composing career. Hearing it all in vivid stereo makes for an exciting listen! Great original 1967 artwork campaign plus color stills, text by Julie Kirgo completes this rich package of western music. One of Universal's best previously unreleased 1960's film scores is finally a CD reality. Dimitri Tiomkin conducts.
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      01. Ballad Of The War Wagon (Sung by Ed Ames) (3:24)
      02. Enter Pierce (1:28)
      03. Dark Street (0:37)
      04. Meeting (1:15)
      05. Lotus Leaf; Fivestone Shaving (1:32)
      06. Livery Stable (1:34)
      07. Lupe (3:00)
      08. Mexican Getaway (0:46)
      09. Bronco Saloon (1:27)
      10. Wading War Wagon (0:42)
      11. Friendly Indians (2:58)
      12. Cuarto Cinco (1:32)

      13. Chores; Knife Talk (2:54)
      14. Indian Trades (1:03)
      15. War Wagon; The Bridge; War Wagon Departs (2:41)
      16. Steady Fingers (2:32)
      17. Spool Of Wire (1:01)
      18. Vantage Point (0:31)
      19. Dust Gag; Ambush (5:09)
      20. The Flour Wagon (1:21)
      21. Tatahey (0:26)
      22. Get That Wagon! (2:06)
      23. A New Life (1:02)
      24. Lomax Hits Bottom And End Cast (1:01)

    • Tech Talk From The Producer…

      Dimitri Tiomkin was near the end of a lengthy and prestigious career when he opted to score Universal Pictures’ rousing 1967 western The War Wagon. Unlike many composers for the silver screen who simply ran out of steam in their twilight years, Tiomkin was flourishing with creative ideas and energetic music as he reached the climax of his composing profession. The War Wagon score is classic Tiomkin, full of outdoor melody, unbridled energy and ripe with orchestral color.

      To present this complete score on CD for the first time, Intrada was given access to all of the original multi-track stereo recording session masters recorded at the Goldwyn Studios and stored in pristine condition in the Universal vaults. These recordings were made in the days when 24-track and similar multi-track recording methods had not yet become available. Typically, when making ambitious recordings requiring a large number of tracks, studios would record on multiple rolls of 35mm magnetic film or tape stock and build layers of recorded material that would require synchronizing several film projectors and tape machines to playback the various tracks simultaneously during the mixing phase. It is worth noting in this score, for example, that the opening “Ballad” alone had three separate channels devoted to the orchestra on one roll (high strings on the left, woodwinds, horns and percussion in the center, low strings and remaining brass on the right), three additional channels on another roll incorporating a rhythm section of guitars, bass and drums and still another roll that included separate channels for harmonica and tack piano, all requiring exact synchronization. And that just covered the instrumentalists! Further rolls featured separate channels for a male chorus on the left, female chorus on the right and soloist Ed Ames appropriately getting center stage. It was tempting to present an array of extras at the end of this CD, offering all manner of mixing gimmicks such as the chorus without the soloist, the soloist without the chorus, the tack piano with the rhythm section alone, then with the harmonica, the back-up orchestra without anyone else… all fun perhaps for a moment but, alas, ultimately not a sound listening experience.

      The joy of our master tape discovery was that every track had been preserved in beautiful condition, from the most imposing orchestral flourish to the tiniest piano sweetener on each and every roll. Finding every roll complete, and in perfect condition (especially with recordings more than four decades old), is no small feat.

      One other note about these recording sessions bears attention. Listeners familiar with such classic Tiomkin albums as The Old Man And The Sea, The Fall Of The Roman Empire, The Guns Of Navarone and 55 Days At Peking probably noticed an unusual amount of room noise included in the recordings. The sessions for The War Wagon are no different. I’m shooting from the hip but I suspect it had to do with Tiomkin’s unique gift as an orchestral conductor with tremendous artistic flair. From the session conversations recorded on these masters it appears Tiomkin sought florid, over-the-top playing over clinical, exact interpretation. Add to this his own singularly unique writing style with numerous bowed, plucked and pizzicato effects from the strings and busy running figures from all the players, not to mention an enormous amount of tongued (staccato) figures, trilling passages and mordants (very brief trills) in woodwinds that literally invited the excessive rattling of keys. He also required generous amounts of flutter-tonguing from his brass players as well as having them constantly change mutes, inviting extra noise. But the orchestral fury Tiomkin unleashed in his action music and the ever-changing myriad solo colors he delivered from his woodwinds and brass was without peer and far outweighed any instrumental noises also generated.

      Every cue from Tiomkin’s score is included here, including several sequences not heard in the finished film. Certain cues were truncated in the picture during post-production and still others were repeated two or three times in fragments as needed. For our release, we have included the entire score as originally conceived and recorded by the composer. It’s rousing music, tuneful, rowdy and chock full of rip-roaring western fun, John Wayne style. Grab those reins and hang on!

      —Douglass Fake



    • Composed and Conducted by Dimitri Tiomkin.
      Recorded at Goldwyn Studios, Los Angeles, California.

      This soundtrack was produced in cooperation with the
      American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.


      LEADER
      Dimitri Tiomkin
      Don Costa

      ORCHESTRA
      MANAGER

      Kurt E. Wolff

      VIOLIN/VIOLA
      Victor Arno
      Harry Bluestone
      Samuel Cytron
      Baldassare Ferlazzo
      Noumi Fischer
      Dan Franklin
      Howard Griffin
      William Hymanson
      Davida G. Jackson
      George Kast
      Murray Kellner
      Maurice Keltz
      Marvin Limonick
      Alexander Murray
      Jerome J. Reisler
      Sam Ross
      Leon Trebacz
      Harry Zagon
      Tibor Zelig

      CELLO
      Naoum Benditzky
      Elizabeth Greenschpoon
      Irving Lipschultz
      Emmet Sargeant
      Joseph Saxon
      Eleanor Slatkin


      BASS
      Donald M. Bagley
      Milton Kestenbaum
      Peter Mercurio

      WOODWINDS
      Richard H. Anderson
      William Criss
      Charles T. Gentry
      Arthur Gleghorn
      Arnold Koblentz
      Jack Marsh
      Ray Nowlin
      Leonard Posella
      Hugo Raimondi

      FRENCH HORN
      James Decker
      William Hinshaw
      Sinclair Lott
      Richard E. Perissi

      TROMBONE
      Hoyt Bohannon
      Karl De Karske
      Harold Diner
      Francis L. Howard
      Edward Kusby
      Larry Sullivan
      Bill Williams

      TRUMPET
      Irving R. Bush
      Robert L. DiVall

      TUBA
      S. J. Bambridge


      DRUMS/
      PERCUSSION

      Irving Cottler
      Frank J. Flynn
      Walter L. Goodwin
      William Kraft
      Chet Ricord

      GUITAR
      Robert Bain
      Joseph R. Gibbons
      Alton Hendrickson
      Vincent Terri

      HARONICA
      Tommy Morgan

      HARP
      Denzil Gail Laughton

      PIANO
      Pearl Kaufman
      Michel Rubini
      Raymond Turner

      ARRANGER
      David Tamkin
      Leonid Raab
      Gil Grau

      COPYIST
      Dan Franklin
      Dorothy Sanders
      Art Grier
      Bill Williams

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