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navajo joe, ennio morricone, film score monthly
€ 22.00

 
Navajo Joe
(1966)


composer: ennio morricone

label: film score monthly

AKA: a Dollar A Head, un Dollaro A Testa, Joe El Implacable, Savage Run

total duration: 00.53.58

soundtrack style: western



   


tracks

01. Navajo Joe (Main Title)
02. A Silhouette Of Doom
03. Duncan's Plan
04. The Peyote Saloon
05. Wiping Out The Town
06. The Road To Esperanza (Main Title - Navajo Joe)
07. The Engineer's Harmonica
08. Duncan's Wild Bunch (Goodbye To Brother Jeffrey)
09. Train Massacre
10. Fear And Silence
11. A Dollar A Head
12. Joe's Departure (End Title - Navajo Joe)
13. An Indian Story (Healing The Wound)
14. Ride Into Town
15. But Joe Say No
16. To Intermission
17. Torture (The Bandit Gets The Train)
18. Navajo Harmonica, Pt. 1
19. Navajo Harmonica, Pt. 2
20. The Navajo Escapes
21. A Bad Childhood
22. Joe And His Woman
23. The Horses Set Free
24. The Demise Of Father Rattigan (The Demise Of Barbara)
25. From Esperanza (To Esperanza)
26. Over The Mountain
27. The Search For Joe
28. The Confrontation / The Return of Joe
29. After The End

Bonus tracks

30. Main Title (Film Version)
31. Raw Hides And Dead Hides
32. Fear And Silence
33. The Navajo's A Prisoner
34. Navajo Joe Medley
35. Sadness

 
 
further information
Beautiful colour booket
Liner notes are by John Bender and Jim Wynorski
Limited edition of 3.000 copies
 
description
Ennio Morricone is beloved for his wholesale reinvention of the western film score, combining operatic melodies, Italian pop and bizarre instrumental innovations.
Many of his scores for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti westerns have become classics not just of the genre, but the whole of film music.
In all of Morricone's western scores, Navajo Joe stands out as the single most outrageous if not downright insane effort.
Utilizing full orchestra and the choral group I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni (The Modern Singers of Alessandroni) with stunning soloist, Gianna Spagnulo (Also heard on Guns for San Sebastian and Moses the Lawgiver) Morricone crafted a main title based on the chorus blasting out Navajo Joe amidst shieking Indian cries.
It has to be heard to be believed and is utterly catchy if not an occasion to stand up and proclaim love of life itself.
John Bender, writing in the liner notes to FSM's definitive new CD, puts it best:
This music was not drafted to slavishly trace a fictional narrative involving a character named Navajo Joe, the score is Navajo Joe.
The character of Joe is an Indian brave (Burt Reynolds) who slays dozens of bandits in order to obtain A dollar a head from white townsfolk needing protection.
Subtlety is not the point of director Sergio Corbucci:
the story is a model of a quick-moving, non-talky B movie plot, with copious action driven by the outstanding music.
In addition to the Navajo Joe main theme, Morricone also provides a recurring piece of percussive action and a rapturous love theme for Joe's attachment to a half-breed maid (Nicoletta Machiavelli).
The Navajo Joe score has become legendary over the years, in part due to Morricone's credit (the pseudonym Leo Nichols) and the scattered availability of the soundtrack.
Three tracks were released in stereo on a Morricone compilation, and an LP was released in mono featuring a brief program of music.
FSM's premiere, definitive CD compiles the complete Navajo Joe soundtrack from 1/4" master tapes for the best-possible fidelity.
This includes the three stereo tracks, the additional monaural tracks from the LP, and previously unreleased cues also in monaural sound, sequenced in film order, with bonus tracks afterwards.
It is the Navajo Joe CD for which fans have always dreamed.
Liner notes are by John Bender and veteran B-movie director, and devoted Navajo Joe fan, Jim Wynorski
 
story

This bloody spaghetti western (filmed entirely in Spain) tells the tale of how an Indian (Burt Reynolds), whose entire tribe was slain by Anglo outlaws, gets gruesome revenge upon them.

Cast:
Tanya Lopert, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Fernando Rey, Burt Reynolds, Angel Alvarez, Pierre Cressoy, Lucia Modugno, Angel Ortiz, Franca Polesello, Valeria Sabel, Aldo Sambrell, Mario Lanfranchi, Cris Huerta, Lucio Rosato, Alvaro de Luna, Simon Arriaga, Rafael Albaican

Director:
Sergio Corbucci

 

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