Digitmovies continues its journey into the Italian Western
by issuing on CD the definitive edition of the OST by Luis
Bacalov from the movie Si Può Fare... Amigo directed
in 1972 by Maurizio Lucidi and starring Bud Spencer, Jack
Palance, Renato Cestiè, Francisco Rabal, Dany Saval,
Sal Borgese, Luciano Catenacci, Dalila Di Lazzaro.
Coburn Thompson (Spencer), a good-natured tramp, happens
to protect the little orphan Chip Anderson (Cestiè)
from a gang of criminals headed by James (Catenacci) and by
the priest-sheriff Franciscus (Rabal) who wants to put his
hands on a piece of land full with oil inherited by the child.
Sonny (Jack Palance) will help him, a cynic gunman dressed
in black who wanders about accompanied by a group of female
saloon dancers and his sister Mary (Dany Saval), who is in
love with Coburn.
At the time of the film's release only a 45 rpm single of
this OST was issued which contained the song Can Be Done with
lyrics by Sergio Bardotti and sung by Rocky Roberts (in 1966
Bacalov had already collaborated with Roberts, performer of
the main theme from the highly successful western movie Django).
Only in 1995 Point Records released a CD which contained the
istrumental score coupled with the OST from Il Grande Duello.
For this our very brand new digitally restored and remastered
CD, we again had access to the mono master tapes of the recording
session that gave us the chance to discover some unreleased
takes which we have assembled in a 7:46 suite.
In addition a special bonus track (tr. 16) features the very
rare stereo-mixed version of the original 45 rpm single song.
Luis Bacalov succeeds in representing in his music the whole
sentimental side of the plot (the friendship between the corpulent,
but good-hearted Thompson and the child Chip) by writing a
sweet and cheerful main theme that is introduced in Titoli
di testa in a pop key and with a little Bacharach flavour
called Can Be Done, sung by Rocky Roberts and accompanied
by a children's choir (Tr. 1).
This theme is reprised with orchestral variations sometimes
dramatically, sometimes in an epic western context with the
use of the harmonica of the great Franco De Gemini (Tr. 2,
Tr. 3, Tr. 4, Tr. 5, Tr. 9, Tr. 11, Tr. 14) and alternated
with saloon as well as instrumental and choir folk music (Tr.
6, Tr. 8, Tr. 12, Tr. 13).
This CD is dedicated to all the fans of the mythic Bud Spencer,
of the Italian Western and of the music art of the Academy
Award winner Luis Bacalov. |