Complete James Horner soundtrack soars on 2-CD set!
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Complete James Horner soundtrack soars on 2-CD set! One of Horner’s most popular scores, one he was particularly fond of, lands with more than 20 minutes of previously unreleased score! [This slightly re-mastered release contains identical contents to Intrada ISC 357, issued in 2016, but now features 1991 audio levels and EQ as per original scoring mixer Shawn Murphy.] Walt Disney Pictures presents, Joe Johnston directs, Bill Campbell, Alan Arkin, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Sorvino, Timothy Dalton star. 1938. Nazi’s on the rise. All-American pilot Cliff Secord finds jetpack, suddenly becomes crimefighting hero The Rocketeer. Jenny Blake is his sweetheart, Neville Sinclair his evil nemesis, Peevy his mentor. All become embroiled in rip-roaring heroics and dazzling derring-do. Flying high alongside them is incredibly rousing, tuneful James Horner score. Primary theme for Cliff’s aerial exploits and dashing rescues anchors the action, dark low brass motif for Sinclair provides edged contrast. Gorgeous love theme also has its say, especially in richly developed treatment Horner recorded especially for the album. Even a couple of big-band standards in fresh arrangements made by legendary Billy May (Horner was particularly fond of 30’s and 40’s-era swing music) appear in both picture and album. Orchestral spotlight goes to “The Flying Circus”, an exciting tour-de-force for orchestra. Trumpets get a sizzling workout! Supercharged action also rears with “South Seas Send Up” (titled “Jenny’s Rescue” on the 1991 album) plus lengthy action finale, “The Zeppelin”. New cues include important early sequences “The Gizmo”, “Finding The Rocket”. Other new highlights: “Testing The Rocket”, “The Laughing Bandit”, “Lothar Gets Wilmer”. CD 1 (and part of CD 2) features everything Horner recorded for the film, including all scoring cues intact and uncut plus both big-band arrangements. Horner was fond of his 1991 album presentation, featuring his favorite highlights, often with unique edits, special takes and album remixes. Intrada happily keeps that album intact on CD 2. For this important presentation, Intrada was given access to the complete Sony 3348 format 48-track session masters vaulted by Disney in pristine condition and mixed to two-track digital stereo by Shawn Murphy. 20-page booklet with profuse color stills, text by Tim Greiving plus “flipper-style” cover designed by Joe Sikoryak adds touch of art-deco elegance to rewarding project. Fun tidbit: Horner was one of the very few composers who actually scored full end titles rather than leave them to music editors to “cut and paste” from existing cues. Typically he concluded them on exquisite, pianissimo chords for strings. The Rocketeer end credits instead climax in spectacular fashion with a resounding fortissimo coda for full orchestra. Bravo Maestro! John Neufeld, Elliot Kaplan, Billy May, Conrad Pope orchestrate, James Horner composes, conducts. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain!
D1 Original Film Soundtrack 01. Main Title (4:43) 02. The Gizmo (3:25) 03. Finding The Rocket (1:52) 04. Neville And Eddie (1:07) 05. Testing The Rocket (2:40) 06. Lothar Gets Wilmer (1:44) 07. The Helmet (0:45) 08. The Laughing Bandit (1:10) 09. Neville Eavesdrops (1:25) 10. The Flying Circus (6:35) 11. A Hero Is Born/Bye Bye Bigelow (2:51) 12. Begin The Beguine (3:44) 13. Jenny’s Rescue (3:52) 14. Love Theme* (5:10) 15. Cliff To The Club (0:49) 16. Cliff The Waiter (0:32) 17. When Your Lover Has Gone (3:28) 18. South Seas Send Up (3:43) 19. Neville Sinclair’s House (7:19) 20. Cliff Caught (1:38) 21. Rendezvous At Observatory (8:10) CD1 Total Time: 67:23
Total Soundtrack Time: 81:55 1991 Soundtrack Album 03. Main Title / Takeoff (4:43) 04. The Flying Circus (6:23) 05. Jenny* (5:10) 06. Begin The Beguine (3:44) 07. Neville Sinclair’s House (7:20) 08. Jenny’s Rescue (3:21) 09. Rendezvous At The Griffith Park Observatory (8:10) 10. When Your Lover Has Gone (3:28) 11. The Zeppelin (7:56) 12. Rocketeer To The Rescue/End Title (6:30) Album Total Time: 57:16 CD2 Total Time: 71:55 *Not Featured in Film
Composed and Conducted by James Horner. The Rocketeer Recorded April 29, 30, May 1, 2, 3, 11 and 12, 1991, at Sony Pictures Scoring Stage, Culver City, California.
VIOLIN Suart Canin
Margaret Batjer
Arnold Belnick
Blanche Belnick
Jacqueline I. Brand
Robert L. Brosseau
Russ Cantor
Lily Ho Chen
Bonnie J. Douglas
Bruce Dukov
Ronald Folsom
David Frisina
Armen Garabedian
Berj Garabedian
Julie Ann Gigante
Harris Goldman
Clayton Haslop
Tamara L. Hatwan Chang
Gwen R. Heller
Bill T. Hybel
Lisa M. Sutton Johnson
Karen Jones
Igor Kiskatchi
Connie Kupka Speltz
Razdan Kuyumjian
Norma Leonard
Rene M. Mandel
Michael B. Markman
Yoko Matsuda
Ralph Morrison III
Irma Neumann
Helen Nightengale
Carolyn Osborn
Stanley Plummer
Katia K. Popov
Anatoly Rosinsky
Sheldon Sanov
Haim Shtrum
Paul C. Shure
Polly H. Sweeney
Roman Volodarsky
Dorothy Wade
Miwako Watanabe
Roger D. Wilkie
Harold Wolf
Jennifer S. Woodward Munday
Kenneth Yerke
VIOLA Pamela Goldsmith
Robert L. Becker
Denyse N. Buffum
Ken Burward-Hoy
Brian Dembow
Alan DeVeritch
Valerie D. Dimond
Marlow G. Fisher
Carrie Holzman-Little
Roland Kato
Myra Kestenbaum
Carole Kleister-Castillo
Janet Lakatos
Donald McInnes
Victoria E. Miskolczy
Dan Lionel Neufeld
Michael Nowak
Nancy K. Roth
Harry Shirinian
Raymond J. Tischer II
Elizabeth S. Wilson
Mihail Zinovyev
CELLO Douglas L. Davis
Robert L. Adcock
J. Antony Cooke
Stephen P. Erdody
Barbara Jane Hunter
Armand Kaproff
Dennis Karmazyn
Dane R. Little
David Low
Nils Oliver
Judith Perett
David Shamban
Nancy Stein-Ross
John A. Walz
BASS Arni Egilsson
Nico C. Abondolo
Timothy C. Barr
Drew D. Dembowski
Richard Feves
Edward Meares
Bruce P. Morgenthaler
Susan A. Ranney
David Young
FLUTE Sheridon W. Stokes
Louise M. DiTullio
Susan Greenberg
James R. Walker
OBOE Ba
rbara Northcutt
Kathleen T. Robinson
CLARINET Ronald Langinger
John Neufeld
Emily Bernstein
Jon C. Clarke
Gary G. Gray
James M. Kanter
Ralph Williams
BASSOON Michael R. O'Donovan
Rose Corrigan
Patricia Kindel-Heimerl
Charles Koster
Kenneth E. Munday
FRENCH HORN James W. Thatcher
Mark L. Adams
Steven B Becknell
David A. Duke
Todd L. Miller
Brian D. A. O'Connor
John A. Reynolds
Richard J. Todd
Phillip E. Yao
TRUMPET Malcolm McNab
George Burnette Dillon
Mario Guarneri
Warren H. Luening Jr.
Roy L. Poper
TROMBONE Richard Nash
Ira Nepus
Robert F. Sanders
Lloyd E. Ulyate
TUBA James M. Self
Doulgas V. Tornquist
PERCUSSION Robert J. Zimmitti
Dale L. Anderson
Larry Bunker
Peter Limonick
Thomas D. Raney
Donald J. Williams
HARP Katie Kirkpatrick
gayle Levant
Dorothy Remsen
Ann Stockton