| Digitmovies always enjoys travelling along the wide prairies
of the Italian Western and it demonstrates this once again by
issuing for the very first time on CD complete and in full stereo
the delightful OST by Enrico Simonetti (one of the great musicians
of Italian television, author of successful scores like Gamma
and father of Claudio Simonetti, another famous name of international
music) for the Spaghetti Western Kid Il Monello Del West directed
in 1973 by Tony Good (real name Tonino Ricci), written by Roberto
Amoroso, Mario Amendola and Bruno Corbucci and starring as the
little cowboy Andrea Balestri (who made his debut in 1972 with
the TV series Le Avventure Di Pinocchio directed by Luigi Comencini
and who did reach big fame thanks to the role of the puppet
character by Collodi) and with Carlo Carloni, Flavio Colombaioni,
Maurizio Fiori, Barbara Fiorini, Mirko Ellis, Clara Park, Franco
Ressel.
The children of River City use to play games in Torqual,
an abandoned mine city.
Their chief is Kid, the wildest one of the group.
One day the little cowboy, while staying behind the saloon
counter, overhears the conversation of Espartad and Comanchero
with the Captain and he adopts their idea to rob the River
City Bank, but with the intention to return the loot.
At the end Kid and his gang of wild children will succeed
in defeating the evil Captain.
Together with the other bandits they hand him over to the
court of justice and donate the reward to Mackenzie who had
to yield his estates to the usurper Wilson.
A cast with little boys and girls is also featured in the
musical Piccoli Gangsters (Bugsy Malone) directed in 1976
by Alan Parker.
At the time of the movie's release Cinevox Record issued
a 45 rpm single with the two tracks La Banda Del West and
Black Jack.
For the realization of this CD we could use all the stereo
mastertapes of the original sessions which gave us the chance
to release every note recorded for the movie.
This OST is dominated by the main theme La Banda Del West
which is the Kid Theme, a cheerful motif performed by Renata
Cortiglioni's children's choir (Tr. 1, Tr. 12, Tr. 19), which
often gets reprised with Charleston tempo (Tr. 3, Tr. 14),
in a saloon style with pianola (Tr. 7) and with harpsichord
(Tr. 9).
Enrico Simonetti has composed a secondary main theme called
Black Jack, an epic orchestral western theme as a tribute
to the Elmer Bernstein style for The Magnificent Seven in
Tr. 2, Tr. 6, Tr. 8, Tr. 13, Tr. 18 and background music for
the adventures of the little cowboys (Tr. 4, Tr. 10, Tr. 17).
An OST which really deserved it to be rescued and preserved
as a tribute to the musical art of Enrico Simonetti, an unforgettable
showman and music man of so many extraordinary past seasons
of the Italian television. |
